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Gunmen Kill Police Colonel, 4 others in Yemen's Aden
2016-01-25
[AnNahar] Unidentified gunnies have killed a police officer and four others in Yemen's Aden in a wave of attacks targeting security forces in the violence-plagued port city.

Assailants on Sunday opened fire on a police vehicle carrying Colonel Taha al-Sobeihi in Aden's Mansura district, killing him along with a bodyguard and a female bystander, a security official said.

Al-Qaeda and the rival Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group both have a presence in the city, where jihadists occupy government buildings and are seen patrolling several districts and intimidating civilians.

They have claimed a string of attacks and liquidations in recent months.

Late Saturday, unidentified gunnies killed a soldier in Mansura, a security official said.

The man was a recruit in a new force that is loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and trained by the Saudi-led coalition, which in March launched a military campaign against rebels who had overrun large swathes of the country.

Hadi last year named Aden as his government's temporary capital after Iran-backed rebels stormed the capital Sanaa in September 2014.

Jihadists in the city have distributed pamphlets in mosques, warning men against enrolling in the new force against Huthi holy warriors, claiming it would "bring back tyranny", residents said.

Another man was rubbed out Saturday when gunnies attempted to kidnap him along with his father in Aden's Crater district, a security official said. The two belonged to the Shiite Bohra minority.

Four members of that community have been kidnapped by "extremists" in the past days in Aden, three of whom have already been released, the official said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
suspected Al-Qaeda Death Eaters blew up a vacant cop shoppe in Huta, the main city in restive Lahj
... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement
province, which is controlled by loyalists.

Hadi returned to Aden after loyalists backed by coalition forces pushed the rebels and their allies out of the city and four other southern provinces in the summer.
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