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| Ten Yemen Islamists killed in Huthi rebel attack |
| 2013-10-31 |
| [Al Ahram] Shia Mohammedan rebels killed 10 Sunni Islamists in Yemen Wednesday and maimed several others, in an attack in the northern province of Saada, an Islamist chief said. The Zaidi rebels fired mortars and rockets at the Mazraa mosque and the surrounding area in Dammaj during noon prayers, said Muheeb al-Dhali, front man of the tribal Al-Nusra Alliance in the region. Dhali said the rebels were attempting to storm the village, home to Sunni Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... He said the rebels have besieged Dammaj, scene to frequent festivities in recent years, as tensions between Sunni Islamists and the rebels escalate. At least 42 people were killed in 10 days of festivities last month between Sunni Islamists and sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians in the northern Amran province, and the central Ibb region. The Zaidis, also known as Huthis after their late leader Abdel Malek al-Huthi, rose up in 2004 against the government of ex-president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , accusing it of marginalising them politically and economically. |
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