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| Southern leader survives assassination attempt |
| 2012-09-10 |
| A senior southern leader, Mohammad Ali Ahmed, survived on Monday an liquidation attempt in Al-Mukla city of Hadhramout governorate. An explosive exploded at the vehicle of Ahmed while he was outside his car in Hadhramout. Ahmed is considered among the prominent southern leaders, and he spent about 18 years in exile. He stated after his return home early of the current year that he came back to struggle for the sake of the southern independence. Yemeni officials including Deputy Chairman of the Political Security Nasser Hadi, the former Interior Minister Hussein Arab, Deputy Governor of Aden Hassan Al-Darab and other officials welcomed Ahmed in Aden Airport. Ahmed served as a governor of 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... , and as interior minister before the Yemeni unification in 1990. No side grabbed credit for the liquidation attempt, but some southern leaders accuse Ali Salem Al-Beidh of standing behind the bombing. Yemen witnesses a state of insecurity in the capital Sana'a and other major cities as Yemeni senior military and security official were assassinated, and other politicians were targeted during the past few months. Security officials said that the authorities foiled many plans to carry out terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda in the capital Sana'a, affirming that seized 40 belts packed with explosives. Secretary General of the Yemeni Socialist Party Yaseen Saeed Noaman survived an liquidation attempt in Sana'a last week two days after the Transportation Minister Waeed Bazeeb survived liquidation in the port city of Aden. |
| Posted by:Fred |