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| Yemen tribesmen 'agree to stop harbouring al Qaeda suspects' |
| 2010-06-14 |
| Tribesmen in Yemen's east have agreed to cease harbouring al Qaeda suspects and to stop carrying out acts of violence, a tribal source and the government said on Sunday. The agreement came at a meeting on Saturday between leaders of the Abida tribe and Yemen's interior minister, Major General Mutahar Rashad al-Masri, hours after an attack on an oil pipeline in Marib province where the tribe is based. The tribal leaders pledged during the meeting to "stop harbouring people wanted by security forces or who are accused of belonging to al Qaeda", a tribal source said. "The agreement also allows technical teams to begin repairing the pipeline, and stipulates that armed tribesmen remove checkpoints blocking the road between Marib and Sanaa to official vehicles and tankers," the source said. Meanwhile, state media quoted Masri as saying "leaders of the Abida and Al-Ashraf (tribes) expressed their willingness to aid the state in pursuing wanted elements, and in condemning acts of sabotage committed by outlaw elements against public interests". Tribal sources said on Saturday that tribesman used a bulldozer to expose the pipeline, then blew it up, in response to a Yemeni army raid on the home of a tribal chief accused of sheltering al Qaeda members. On June 5, a Yemeni army colonel and two soldiers were killed in an attack on a convoy en route to Safar oil field, in an attack attributed to al Qaeda. Gunmen, meanwhile, shot dead a senior security official in south Yemen, and two soldiers died defusing a bomb near a southern army camp, officials and witnesses said on Sunday. A provincial official said Jalal al-Uthmani, a senior security official in the flashpoint Abyan province, was killed outside his house in a hail of gunfire on Saturday. In neighbouring Dalea, two soldiers died on Sunday when a bomb they were trying to defuse outside the gate of an army camp exploded, witnesses and local officials said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Yemen tribesmen 'agree to stop harbouring al Qaeda suspects' ....... ...at least until the USD stop coming. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-06-14 21:13 |
| #3 What if it's their cousin 'Vinnie' Bin-Abdulla? Aren't 'relatives' exempt? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2010-06-14 11:00 |
| #2 That depends on what the definition of harbor and al-Qaeda is. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2010-06-14 09:34 |
| #1 And I agree to win the Powerball lottery on Wednesday night... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-06-14 09:23 |