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| Yemen President urges clerics to help government fight Al Qaeda | |
| 2010-08-30 | |
[Gulf News] The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh called upon religious scholars and all Yemenis for fighting Al Qaeda in his country.
Saleh said Al Qaeda in Yemen is trying to do the same way as in Afghanistan and Iraq in targeting the Yemeni security forces. "Now these terrorists turn to target the security forces in the same way as it is in Afghanistan and Iraq but they will not succeed," he said. "The traders of drugs are from the terrorists, the politicians in the terrorist Al Qaeda organization allowed them to do business in drugs starting from Afghanistan to any place in the world." For its part, Al Qaeda which is in an open war with the security forces since the beginning of this year, claimed responsibility for several attacks on security forces and killing and injuring dozens of them in Abyan province over the last few weeks. Published on websites under the title 'Al Qaeda operations in the State of Abyan', the Al Qaeda attributed statement said, "We would like to inform our Muslim brothers, who are oppressed by the apostate regime, of a number of operations carried out by Mujahideen of Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsular in the State of Abyan, in the city of Zinjubar." The statement mentioned five operations only in Zinjubar city in which more than 15 soldiers were killed during the month of August. Eight soldiers and a government official were killed on Saturday when Al Qaeda suspects attacked a security check point in Ja'ar, Abayan province. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 You mean Al-Awlaki (spelling), JohnQC? He's up in the hills somehwere, protected by his fierce fellow tribesmen. It the Yemeni government forces could get to him, they wouldn't have been fought to a draw by the Shiites at one end of the country and the association of Al Qaeda in Arabia and the wild tribesmen at the other. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-08-30 13:04 |
| #1 called upon religious scholars and all Yemenis for fighting Al Qaeda in his country. I'm not holding my breath. Yemen has been a haven for terrorists for a long time and little has been done about the problem. The USS Cole was bombed on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored and refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden. Yemen is the current home of Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born imam whom Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan consulted before the Ft. Hood massacre. Also didn't the Times Square bomber and Christmas Day underwear bomber also have ties with this imam? It seems like Yemen officials could nab this guy if they wanted to. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-08-30 08:57 |