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| Major southern Yemeni separatist warlord Abdul Latif al-Sayed assassinated |
| 2023-08-11 |
| [HodhodYemen ...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... News] A commander in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militias was killed on Thursday in Mudiyah 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 Emirateafter 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... province, south of Yemen. Sources familiar with the matter revealed the leader of the "Security Belt" factions of the STC, Abdul Latif al-Sayed, was targeted by an bomb planted in his car in Wadi Omran of the district, amid accusations that Emirati intelligence was behind the liquidation. The sources indicated that the liquidation came just a week after he was appointed commander of the "Security Belt" factions in the province. Al-Sayed’s funeral took place hours after his liquidation in the Batis area, in the presence of a limited number of leaders of the STC factions in the province. Among the killed were also the head of the so-called Security Belt Staff, Salah al-Yousifi al-Yafei, and a tribal sheikh affiliated with the STC, Mohammed Karid al-Jaadani, in addition to three of al-Sayed companions, the sources added. Al-Sayed was one of the most prominent leaders of al-Qaeda factions that brought down the city of Ja’ar in Khanfar area of Abyan in the beginning of 2011. After the war on Yemen in March 2015, he had became one of the most senior commanders of the UAE-funded factions in Abyan. The convoy had been en route to a flashpoint area that has seen regular confrontations with Al Qaeda fighters. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast which killed Abdullatif al Sayyid, the commander of the Security Belt Forces in Abyan province. |
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