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| Yemen to Establish Fund to Rebuild Abyan after Victory on Militants |
| 2012-06-21 |
| [Yemen Post] Yemen's Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved to set up a fund to reconstruct Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , days after the army drove Al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti out of the southern province after months of a US-backed offensive. In its exceptional meeting in Aden, the Council urged to accelerate the formation of the fund and announced YR10 billion in government contribution to the fund besides expected internal and external aid to return the situation to normal in Abyan. In the meantime, the authorities are removing and detonating landmines, which were planted by the Islamic fascisti in key towns and working hard to restore basic services to enable the displaced people to come back. Furthermore, the Council approved to deduct a day's wage from the salaries of the state employees which will be collected and given in aid to the displaced families in Abyan. The UN has said about 170,000 people fled Abyan to Aden and other nearby provinces due to the battles against Al-Qaeda. At the meeting, it discussed the report of the local government on priorities topped by immediate interventions to rebuild the areas, which were damaged in the offensive against militancy over the past few months. It stressed the importance to meet urgent needs in this province, especially necessary security equipment to enable the authorities to do their job perfectly. In association with pro-government fighters, the national forces retook control of key towns in Abyan including the capital Zinjibar, which were seized in mid-2011. The army has launched massive hunts to pursue the remaining Al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti in nearby provinces. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Sure, reduce the pay for employees who already support the state, and give it away to drifters. That should work. |
| Posted by: American Delight 2012-06-21 12:43 |