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Arabia
Yemeni killer of Frenchman was driven by 'personal motives'
2010-10-09
[Arab News] A Yemeni security guard who rubbed out a Frenchman at an Austrian energy firm's compound near Sanaa this week was driven by "personal motives," Yemen's Interior Ministry said on Friday.
"Filthy demon kufr! Allahu akhbar!!!!!1!1!11!!!" *spittle* *frothing at the mouth* *eyeballs rolled back in his head* *EPILEPTIC FIT!!!!!1111!!11*

That kind of personal motive?
Yemeni security sources said earlier this week initial indications were that Al-Qaeda forces of Evil were behind the attack as well as the firing of a rocket-propelled grenade also on Monday at a British diplomat's car in Sanaa.

"First investigations with the accused show it likely that... the crime was committed out of personal motives," an Interior Ministry statement on government website "26 September" said.

"This conclusion is only preliminary and not a final verdict since the investigations are just at the beginning," it added.

The statement named the guard as Hisham Mohammed Mohammed Assem, a 19-year-old from the Taizz province who lives in Sanaa.
A Yemini youth with an actual paying job?!? His family is going to be very annoyed that he threw away an actual source of income. Now how are they to afford to marry off his sisters?
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an arm of Al-Qaeda thought to be include mainly Yemenis, has not issued any claim of responsibility for the attack.

AQAP has struck more often at Yemeni and Western targets since Sanaa declared "war" on the group, with US support, after it claimed a failed US airliner bombing in December.

Occasional American missile strikes to back the crackdown have sometimes killed civilians as well as forces of Evil -- an embarrassment to a government aware of the fiercely anti-US sentiments of many Yemenis in a country awash with guns.

Analysts say Yemen's government, also facing southern secessionists and northern rebels, is keen to benefit from Western backing and show that Yemen is paying dearly for its sometimes questioned commitment to combating Al-Qaeda.

A government website said on Tuesday that Yemen had lost $12 billion in tourism and investment since Al-Qaeda bombed a US warship in Aden harbour in 2000, killing 17 sailors. It said the security forces had lost 64 dead in fighting with Al-Qaeda since a crackdown began in mid-August.

More than two in five Yemen's 23 million people live on less than $2 a day. A third do not have enough food for their needs, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute.
So the lad's family prob'ly has more to worry about that paying for elaborate weddings. Darwin always wins.
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