[Yemen Post] Yemen's security authorities have detected about 20 boom belts that could have been used in suicide kabooms, local sources said on Wednesday. Mayor of the capital Sana'a Abdul-Qader Hilal affirmed that the police detected last week bombs and boom belts in a shop in Al-Qadysia street.
He spelt out that the belts were discovered after a jacket wallah went
kaboom!himself in a market in late July.
He affirmed that the police found out that the bomber was planning to carry out a terrorist operation that was designed to raise instability in Sana'a, hinting that residents contributed in foiling the conspiracy.
Al-Qaeda carried out a number of terrorist attacks in Sana'a, and the most deadliest one was carried out against a military parade rehearsal that killed about 100 soldiers in May.
Since its defeat in June, Al-Qaeda forces of Evil have grabbed credit for deadly attacks in Sana'a and other cities that targeted military and security chiefs, personnel, cadets and offices.
The authorities have defused many bombs near key security and private installations in recent weeks.
About 45 Yemenis were killed and dozens others were maimed as Ansar Al-Shariah attacked a rally of the Popular Resistance Committees 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...
Yemeni analysts say that hat 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...
h is no longer to engage in direct festivities with the army or carry out operations against sensitive facilities and it resorted to carry out such accessible attacks.
Rajeh Badi, an advisor of Primer Mohammad Salem Basindwa, said Al-Qaeda restarted its attacks to show that it is still able to carry out operations anywhere and in any time.