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| Yemen: Bombs hit intelligence building in Aden | |
| 2015-08-23 | |
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Several bombs went kaboom!outside a building used by the intelligence services in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Saturday, causing fires to break out but no casualties, a local official said. Four people were killed in a bombing of Aden's governor's office in Thursday. Aden has been at the center of a battle between Iran-allied Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... movement from Yemen's north and supporters of the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Fighters loyal to Hadi captured Aden from the Houthis and their allies, forces loyal to former 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... , in July after months of street battles and air strikes on the Houthis by a Saudi-led coalition. The intelligence offices are located near the administration offices of Aden's port and the radio and television building, the official said. Explosive devices had been planted on the fence of surrounding the building, he said, which was severely damaged in the blasts. He gave no further details on the identity of the bombers.
[AnNahar] A bomb destroyed the secret police headquarters in Aden on Saturday, residents of the southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... city said, in an attack that one official blamed on Al-Qaeda. The four-storey building in the Tawahi neighborhood of Aden was razed by the blast which occurred at around 6 am (0300 GMT) and which could be heard across the city, residents said. One local official, who declined to be named, said the bombing was carried out by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP). "These elements have since (the start of) August destroyed or removed secret police files in Aden," the official said. He alleged that AQAP gunnies entered Yemen's second city just weeks after it was retaken from Iran-backed rebels in mid-July. The kaboom caused no casualties, the official said, adding that AQAP members had withdrawn from the area after the blast. | |
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