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| Yemeni forces ‘captured 250 Qaeda’ after city retaken |
| 2016-05-14 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni government forces have captured around 250 "al-Qaeda members" since they retook Mukalla, the largest city in the country’s southeast, last month, a top officer said on Friday. "We have tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! around 250 members of al-Qaeda, including some leaders, since our operations began," General Faraj Salmin told AFP. Salmin commands the second military zone which includes Mukalla, capital of the vast desert province of Hadramawt. The port city was retaken from the gunnies on April 24. "One of these chiefs, Mohammed Saleh al-Orabi who calls himself the emir of Shar, was detained on Thursday" in the area of the same name some 60 kilometres (35 miles) east of Mukalla, he added. All of the arrests were made in Mukalla and its surroundings, the general said. Al-Qaeda occupied the city for a year, and imposed strict Islamic law on residents. Special forces from the UAE, a member of a Saudi-led coalition battling Shiite 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 America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels across Yemen, played a major role in retaking Mukalla. Last week, the United States said that "a very small number" of American soldiers were also involved in the operation. |
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