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Al-Qaeda militants re-organize themselves in Abyan
2012-09-21
[Yemen Post] Security chief of Al-Mahafad district 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 Emirate after 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...
, Yaslim al-Anbori, has revealed that numbers of al-Qaeda Orcs and similar vermin are flowing to the east of al-Mahfad.

He told the Kuwaiti Alsyasia newspaper as saying that the number of Orcs and similar vermin is about 400, asserting that Al-Mahfad turns to a connection point between Orcs and similar vermin from Abyan, Hadhramout, Shabwah, Marib.

According to al-Anbori, he had confirmed information that jacket wallahs headed to Sana'a, Aden and other cities to carry out sucicide bombings using cycle of violences .

He affirmed that Saudis and Paks are among the Death Eaters, indicating that they are helping the Orcs and similar vermin in making bombs and boom belts and anticipating that Baihan district of Shabwah may be controlled by Al-Qaeda.

He said that Al-Qaeda Orcs and similar vermin kidnapped a Syrian and Turkish last week, and transferred them to a remote area with the aim of pressing on the Yemeni authorities to release an al-Qaeda leader, Nasser Al-Shaibah, held by the Yemeni authorities since three years.

He revealed that contacts about the Saudi diplomats kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in Yemen were totally suspended, emphasizing that there are no information about his place.

Al-Qaeda Orcs and similar vermin received painful blows as the Yemeni army cleansed them from their main strongholds in Abyan and they resorted to use other tactics including the abduction of foreigners.

A number of foreigners including a Saudi diplomat and a Swiss nationals are still held by 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, an Al-Qaeda linked group, in Abyan.

Local sources of Abyan had said that Al-Qaeda managed to hire rustics to kidnap foreigners and transfer them to South Yemen.
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