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| Official Blames Qaida for Aden Police Base Bombing |
| 2015-08-23 |
| [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 The kaboom caused no casualties, the official said, adding that AQAP members had withdrawn from the area after the blast. AQAP, which the United States says is the global krazed killer network's most dangerous branch, has taken advantage of months of violence and chaos in Yemen to make territorial gains, overrunning in April the port of Mukalla, capital of the eastern Hadramawt province. |
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