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| 4 Suspects Held over Yemen Suicide Attack |
| 2012-08-07 |
[An Nahar] Militiamen who sided with the Yemeni army in battling al-Qaeda "cooled for a few yearsYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! " four jihadists allegedly involved in a suicide kaboom that killed 45 people over the weekend, a local official said on Monday. "The Popular Resistance Committees, in cooperation with the army, placed in durance vile Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! four al-Qaeda members suspected of involvement in Saturday's suicide kaboom," local official Mohsen bin Jamila told Agence La Belle France Presse. One of the four suspects was "disguised as a woman" when he was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! , he said without giving further details. Forty-five people were killed in the suicide attack in Jaar, in 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... province, one of a string of southern towns retaken by government troops in June after Islamists held it for more than a year. |
| Posted by:Fred |