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| 3 Qaeda suspects killed in motorbike blast in Yemen's Aden |
| 2016-03-17 |
[AlAhram] Three suspected Al-Qaeda holy warriors on a cycle of violence were killed Wednesday as a bomb they were transporting went kaboom!in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, a security official said. He said the motorbike blew up in the Dar Saad neighbourhood of the city, the scene of fighting has raged between Islamist holy warriors and government forces. Security officials said 26 Al-Qaeda gunnies have been killed since the festivities began at the weekend, adding that the Islamist holy warriors have vacated government buildings in the Mansura district. Many Islamist holy warriors have already pulled out from Aden and withdrawn to their strongholds in the nearby provinces of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement , one official said. Another official said Salafist Islamists were trying to mediate a truce, but holy warriors were refusing to hand over areas they control. Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group have taken advantage of Yemen's conflict between Iran-backed Shia Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels and pro-government forces to reinforce their presence in the south. Warplanes from a pro-government, Saudi-led coalition targeted Islamist holy warriors in Aden over the weekend for the first time since it mounted a campaign against the rebels in March last year. The coalition helped loyalists regain control of four southern provinces last summer, including Aden, the temporary base of the government. The capital Sanaa has remained in rebel hands since September 2014. The World Health Organization says more than 6,200 people have been killed in the conflict since March 2015 and the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... has warned of a "human catastrophe unfolding in Yemen". |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 The cycle of self-inflicted violence. Motorpsycho, if you will... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-03-17 14:50 |
| #1 But were they wearing their helmets? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-03-17 12:56 |