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| Blasts Claimed by Daesh Kill 31 At Shiite Sites in Yemen |
| 2015-06-19 |
| [Tolo News] At least 31 people were killed Wednesday and dozens maimed in five simultaneous bombings claimed by the Daesh at Shiite mosques and offices in the Yemeni capital, medics and witnesses said. Daesh, a Sunni Moslem radical group, said the attacks were in "Dire Revenge" against the Shiite Huthis, who have overrun Sanaa and much of the Sunni majority country and whom it considers to be heretics. The attacks came as the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... struggled to push forward peace talks between Yemen's exiled government and the Iran-backed rebels in Geneva. They also come almost three months after Daesh carried out multiple bombings against Shiite mosques, killing 142 people. Two boom-mobiles targeted mosques, while a third hit the house of the head of the Houthis' politburo, Saleh al-Sammad, witnesses and security officials said. The Daesh statement said the nearby politburo office was the target. One of the boom-mobiles targeted the house of Huthi leader Taha al-Mutawakel and the adjacent Al-Hashush mosque, which was targeted in the March bombings. The other boom-mobile hit the Al-Quba Al-Khadra mosque in the central Hayel district, which is frequented by Huthi supporters. Bombs also went off at two other mosques -- Al-Kibssi and Al-Tayssir in Al-Ziraa district, with all the attacks timed to coincide with Moslem sunset prayers. Witnesses said the bombs were planted near the entrances to the mosques, and went kaboom!as worshippers flocked in for the prayers, on the eve of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan. At the time of the March bombings, an Daesh statement described the attacks as "just the tip of the iceberg." That carnage drew widespread condemnation, including from IS rival Al-Qaeda, whose affiliate in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... issued a statement saying it had nothing to do with the bombings. The Huthis overran Sanaa in September and have since expanded their control across several regions, aided by troops loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... . |
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