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2023-12-03 Arabia
Armed mercenary forces detain urgently needed fuel transports in occupied Abyan
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Armed elements affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) factions detained on Saturday dozens of tankers loaded with oil derivatives in 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 Emirate after 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, 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...
"The STC members have been preventing the passage of tracks loaded with crude oil coming from Shabwa province to the ’PetroMasila’ power station in Aden city for several days," local sources said.

The sources explained that the armed elements did that in protest against the non-payment of their financial dues by the leaders of the STC factions for regional reasons.

The armed elements in the rest of the points affiliated with the UAE-funded factions impose huge amounts of taxes and royalties on the tankers without any legal right to allow them to pass, according to the sources.

The detention of fuel tankers, which portends an upcoming disaster in Aden Electricity, comes to pressure the STC to pay the armed elements’ financial dues for the past four months following the dismissal of 400 conscripts from several districts of Abyan.

Posted by Fred 2023-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [42 views ]  Top
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