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| Al-Qaeda Targeting Lahj Province in South Yemen |
| 2011-09-02 |
| [Yemen Post] Suspected al-Qaeda cut-throats are now planning to takeover another southern province after controlling Abyan province. Local security officials in Lahj province said that a large number of al-Qaeda cut-throats have entered the province coming from neighboring Abyan. The official said that tens of unknown people who are suspected to be cut-throats have been walking in the streets on Howtah, the capital of Lahj, since last Friday. "We have not been given orders by the government to arrest any suspects, but the Interior Ministry is focusing on this issue with great concern," said the official. Residents are on high alert fearing that the government is planning to evacuate its thousands of troops like it did in Abyan and force the province to fall in the hands of Death Eaters. In June, festivities took place between government forces and suspected cut-throats belonging to the turban Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... group. Majority of Lahj residents joined the Yemeni revolution demanding the ousting of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... 's regime. It is also the backbone of the Southern Movement, which is calling for southern separation from northern Yemen. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Another Govt who use AlQ for extortion from the West |
| Posted by: Paul D 2011-09-02 06:05 |