By Nasser Arrabyee,01/08/2012
The Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi formed an investigation committee about the clashes that killed and injured a number of soldiers at the gate of the ministry of interior on Tuesday.
At least 10 soldiers were killed and 25 others injured when about 300 soldiers from the first armored division tried to disperse by force hundreds of protesting soldiers inside the ministry of interior. The clashes continued about 10 hours from early morning. Big looting and plundering acts happened during the clashes. A lot of furniture was sold in the markets in front of the people.
The protesting soldiers started their sit-in on Sunday to demand some of their rights, like higher payments and health insurance. On Monday, the protesting soldiers were told by senior officials at the ministry of interior to end the sit-in and all their demands will be met.
" But they gave us 24 hours to leave the yard of the ministry or they will evacuate us by force," said Faisal Al Hemyari, one of the protesting soldiers.
"Today, we were surprised to see about 300 soldiers attacking us," he said.
About 80 attacking soldiers were arrested by the protesting soldiers. The supreme security committee released the soldiers on the same day.
The security committee said in a statement that some officers were "inciting for personal interests", without any further details.
Meanwhile, 18 soldiers were injured when unknown fired mortars to the camp of the Central Security in Al Areesh area in Aden.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Violence in rise in Sanaa
By Nasser Arrabyee/31/07/2012
The political and security situation in Yemen is still bad. The capital Sanaa witnessed several incidents this week.
At least five soldiers were killed and 30 others injured on Tuesday July 31, at the gate of the ministry of interior in clashes between security forces and employees from the ministry who demand their rights.
The problem started on Sunday when these employees, from the police, stormed the ministry building after their bosses refused to give them what they called " rights". Then, the angry employees were convinced to evacuate the building after officials including the minister of interior promised to respond to their demands.
Last Sunday, 29 July, an Italian diplomat was kidnapped from a street in the capital Sanaa. The kidnapper was later identified by the ministry of interior as Ali Nasser Harikdan, a tribal leader from Abeidah in Mareb, where Al Qaeda is very active. The kidnapper is demanding compensation from the government for putting him in prison.
'Death for the enemies of Al Qaeda' wherever they are
On Saturday, Al Qaeda failed to assassinate a tribal leader in Sanaa but succeeded to kill his son by a parcel bomb.
After his 14-year old son was killed by a parcel bomb, he received immediately a call saying "We will kill anyone who would stand against Al Qaeda."
That was the tribal sheikh of Kaifah of Rada'a, Al Baidha province, Majid Al Dhahab, who survived an assassination attempt on Saturday 28 July, 2012.
Two armed men came to the street which is located in Aser area west of the capital Sanaa, where they found his son Ali playing with friends.
The two men , believed to be Al Qaeda operatives, handed Ali a wrapped parcel and told him it was a gift for his father from someone.
A bomb was inside the parcel. Ali took it and entered his house to hand it to his father, but he did not find his father. Ali opened the parcel and it exploded killing him immediately.
" Al Qaeda killed my son, Al Qaeda killed my son," Sheikh Majed said immediately after he heard the news of his son.
Shriek Majed is a cousin of Tarek Al Dhahab, Al Qaeda leader in Rada'a who was killed in February this year in clashes with tribal leaders who refused Al Qaeda and its ideology.
Sheikh Majed Al Dhahab was one of prominent tribal leaders who led a campaign against Al Qaeda last February and forced them to get out from Radaa. Sheikh Hezam Al Dhahab, brother of Tarek, was also killed in the clashes after he killed his terrorist brother Tarek.
About 40 people were killed in the clashes including six brothers and nephews from Tarek Al Dhahab's family in February.
It's worth mentioning that Sheikh Majed Al Dhahab assassination attempt came days after a cell of five members of Al Qaeda was arrested in Sanaa.
Al Qaeda returns
Given such a bad security situation in the capital, the remote areas should be even worse to give a chance for Al Qaeda to regroup.
Al Qaeda has returned to the main strongholds in the south of Yemen after local tribesmen stopped fighting against them.
The government failed to pay all the tribesmen, known as anti-Al Qaeda popular committees, to prevent the terrorists from returning to Jaar, and Zinjubar in the southern province of Abyan.
The popular committees played a key role to drive Al Qaeda out of the two towns last May in cooperation with the government troops.
Thousands of unemployed young people from the local tribes who joined the committees wanted to have regular salaries from the army as rewards for their fighting against Al Qaeda.
"We should have salaries like the soldiers, we did better than them in the fight against Al Qaeda," said Yaslem Awadh, one of the prominent leaders of the popular committees in Zinjubar.
The governemnt can not afford pay all these people and at the same time can not work without them. They know how to deal with Al Qaeda more than the government security and army.
Earlier this week, five people were killed and others injured in clashes between Al Qaeda operatives and some local tribsmen in Batis area at the outskirts of Jaar. Local sources said that more 50 Al Qaeda fighters returned to Jaar earlier this month and now they are based in Batis. In Zinjubar, Al Qaeda operatives are seen every day. " We see them, but we can not do anything to them," said Mohammed Obadi , a local resident in Zinjubar.
The political and security situation in Yemen is still bad. The capital Sanaa witnessed several incidents this week.
At least five soldiers were killed and 30 others injured on Tuesday July 31, at the gate of the ministry of interior in clashes between security forces and employees from the ministry who demand their rights.
The problem started on Sunday when these employees, from the police, stormed the ministry building after their bosses refused to give them what they called " rights". Then, the angry employees were convinced to evacuate the building after officials including the minister of interior promised to respond to their demands.
Last Sunday, 29 July, an Italian diplomat was kidnapped from a street in the capital Sanaa. The kidnapper was later identified by the ministry of interior as Ali Nasser Harikdan, a tribal leader from Abeidah in Mareb, where Al Qaeda is very active. The kidnapper is demanding compensation from the government for putting him in prison.
'Death for the enemies of Al Qaeda' wherever they are
On Saturday, Al Qaeda failed to assassinate a tribal leader in Sanaa but succeeded to kill his son by a parcel bomb.
After his 14-year old son was killed by a parcel bomb, he received immediately a call saying "We will kill anyone who would stand against Al Qaeda."
That was the tribal sheikh of Kaifah of Rada'a, Al Baidha province, Majid Al Dhahab, who survived an assassination attempt on Saturday 28 July, 2012.
Two armed men came to the street which is located in Aser area west of the capital Sanaa, where they found his son Ali playing with friends.
The two men , believed to be Al Qaeda operatives, handed Ali a wrapped parcel and told him it was a gift for his father from someone.
A bomb was inside the parcel. Ali took it and entered his house to hand it to his father, but he did not find his father. Ali opened the parcel and it exploded killing him immediately.
" Al Qaeda killed my son, Al Qaeda killed my son," Sheikh Majed said immediately after he heard the news of his son.
Shriek Majed is a cousin of Tarek Al Dhahab, Al Qaeda leader in Rada'a who was killed in February this year in clashes with tribal leaders who refused Al Qaeda and its ideology.
Sheikh Majed Al Dhahab was one of prominent tribal leaders who led a campaign against Al Qaeda last February and forced them to get out from Radaa. Sheikh Hezam Al Dhahab, brother of Tarek, was also killed in the clashes after he killed his terrorist brother Tarek.
About 40 people were killed in the clashes including six brothers and nephews from Tarek Al Dhahab's family in February.
It's worth mentioning that Sheikh Majed Al Dhahab assassination attempt came days after a cell of five members of Al Qaeda was arrested in Sanaa.
Al Qaeda returns
Given such a bad security situation in the capital, the remote areas should be even worse to give a chance for Al Qaeda to regroup.
Al Qaeda has returned to the main strongholds in the south of Yemen after local tribesmen stopped fighting against them.
The government failed to pay all the tribesmen, known as anti-Al Qaeda popular committees, to prevent the terrorists from returning to Jaar, and Zinjubar in the southern province of Abyan.
The popular committees played a key role to drive Al Qaeda out of the two towns last May in cooperation with the government troops.
Thousands of unemployed young people from the local tribes who joined the committees wanted to have regular salaries from the army as rewards for their fighting against Al Qaeda.
"We should have salaries like the soldiers, we did better than them in the fight against Al Qaeda," said Yaslem Awadh, one of the prominent leaders of the popular committees in Zinjubar.
The governemnt can not afford pay all these people and at the same time can not work without them. They know how to deal with Al Qaeda more than the government security and army.
Earlier this week, five people were killed and others injured in clashes between Al Qaeda operatives and some local tribsmen in Batis area at the outskirts of Jaar. Local sources said that more 50 Al Qaeda fighters returned to Jaar earlier this month and now they are based in Batis. In Zinjubar, Al Qaeda operatives are seen every day. " We see them, but we can not do anything to them," said Mohammed Obadi , a local resident in Zinjubar.
Monday, 30 July 2012
Yemeni gunmen vacate Interior Ministry after protests
Source: Reuters,13/07/2012
* Tribesmen had occupied ministry demanding jobs
* Senior security official survives second attack
* Oil pipeline, closed for months due to attacks, reopens (Adds assassination attempt on security official)
Yemeni tribesmen agreed on Monday to vacate the Interior Ministry after storming it the day before in a protest for jobs, an official said - an incident that highlighted the ongoing turmoil in a country where al Qaeda militancy has alarmed world powers.
In a further sign of instability in the Arabian Peninsula country, a security official survived an assassination attempt when a bomb placed under his vehicle was detonated remotely in the southern port city of Aden.
Yemen is struggling to establish order following the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in February after a year of protests against his rule.
An Interior Ministry source said it had persuaded the 100 tribesmen, seen as loyal to former President Saleh, to vacate the ministry, in the capital, Sanaa. The tribesmen were demanding to be enlisted in the police force.
"The president (Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi) formed a committee to negotiate," the source said.
"They were persuaded to end the occupation in return for a promise to respond to their demands."
In Aden, Colonel Taha Hussein al-Sobaihi was rushed to hospital after the failed assassination - the second attempt on his life in one year.
Yemeni authorities were also hunting the abductors of an Italian embassy security officer, a member of the Carabinieri police, kidnapped near his embassy in Sanaa on Sunday.
In March, the Saudi deputy consul in Aden, Abdallah al-Khalidi, was kidnapped by al Qaeda-linked militants who demanded the release of women detainees from Saudi prisons.
During the uprising that toppled Saleh, militants associated with al Qaeda strengthened their position in areas of south and east Yemen, further testing central government control in a country riven with tribalism and regionalism.
Tribesmen often kidnap foreigners and bomb oil and gas pipelines as a way to press demands on authorities.
Yemen delivered its first oil shipment from the Maarib pipeline to its Aden refinery on Monday, after a nine-month halt caused by tribal attacks that left Yemen relying on imports and Saudi fuel donations, a refinery official told Reuters.
Yemen's location next to leading oil exporter Saudi Arabia and astride key world shipping routes has heightened regional and Western concern over the security situation.
The disorder has alarmed the United States, a backer of Saleh who has sought to ensure that his successor makes fighting al Qaeda his priority. Yemen now ranks alongside Pakistan and Afghanistan for U.S. policymakers concerned with the spread of al Qaeda networks. (Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Andrew Hammond and Mirna Sleiman; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo and Robin Pomeroy)
* Tribesmen had occupied ministry demanding jobs
* Senior security official survives second attack
* Oil pipeline, closed for months due to attacks, reopens (Adds assassination attempt on security official)
Yemeni tribesmen agreed on Monday to vacate the Interior Ministry after storming it the day before in a protest for jobs, an official said - an incident that highlighted the ongoing turmoil in a country where al Qaeda militancy has alarmed world powers.
In a further sign of instability in the Arabian Peninsula country, a security official survived an assassination attempt when a bomb placed under his vehicle was detonated remotely in the southern port city of Aden.
Yemen is struggling to establish order following the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in February after a year of protests against his rule.
An Interior Ministry source said it had persuaded the 100 tribesmen, seen as loyal to former President Saleh, to vacate the ministry, in the capital, Sanaa. The tribesmen were demanding to be enlisted in the police force.
"The president (Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi) formed a committee to negotiate," the source said.
"They were persuaded to end the occupation in return for a promise to respond to their demands."
In Aden, Colonel Taha Hussein al-Sobaihi was rushed to hospital after the failed assassination - the second attempt on his life in one year.
Yemeni authorities were also hunting the abductors of an Italian embassy security officer, a member of the Carabinieri police, kidnapped near his embassy in Sanaa on Sunday.
In March, the Saudi deputy consul in Aden, Abdallah al-Khalidi, was kidnapped by al Qaeda-linked militants who demanded the release of women detainees from Saudi prisons.
During the uprising that toppled Saleh, militants associated with al Qaeda strengthened their position in areas of south and east Yemen, further testing central government control in a country riven with tribalism and regionalism.
Tribesmen often kidnap foreigners and bomb oil and gas pipelines as a way to press demands on authorities.
Yemen delivered its first oil shipment from the Maarib pipeline to its Aden refinery on Monday, after a nine-month halt caused by tribal attacks that left Yemen relying on imports and Saudi fuel donations, a refinery official told Reuters.
Yemen's location next to leading oil exporter Saudi Arabia and astride key world shipping routes has heightened regional and Western concern over the security situation.
The disorder has alarmed the United States, a backer of Saleh who has sought to ensure that his successor makes fighting al Qaeda his priority. Yemen now ranks alongside Pakistan and Afghanistan for U.S. policymakers concerned with the spread of al Qaeda networks. (Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Andrew Hammond and Mirna Sleiman; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo and Robin Pomeroy)
Sunday, 29 July 2012
'Death for the enemies of Al Qaeda' wherever they are
By Nasser Arrabyee/29/07/2012
After his 14-year old son was killed by a parcel bomb, he received immediately a call saying "We will kill anyone who would stand against Al Qaeda."
That was the tribal sheikh of Kaifah of Rada'a, Al Baidha province, Majid Al Dhahab, who survived an assassination attempt on Saturday 28 July, 2012.
Two armed men came to the street where his is located in Aser area west of the capital Sanaa, where they found his son Ali playing with friends.
The two men , believed to be Al Qaeda operatives, handed Ali an a wrapped parcel and told it was a gift for his father from someone. A bomb was inside the parcel. Ali took it and entered his house to hand it his father, but he did not find his father. Ali opened the parcel and it exploded killing him immediately.
" Al Qaeda killed my son, Al Qaeda killed my son," Sheikh Majed said immediately after he heard the news of his son.
Shriek Majed is a cousin of Tarek Al Dhahab, Al Qaeda leader in Rada'a who was killed in February this year in clashes with tribal leaders who refuse Al Qaeda and its ideology.
Sheikh Majed Al Dhahab was one of prominent tribal leaders who led a campaign against Al Qaeda last February and forced them to get out from Radaa. Sheikh Hazem Al Dhahab, brother of Tarek, was also killed in the clashes after he killed his terrorist brother Tarek.
About 40 people were killed in the clashes including six brothers and nephews from Tarek Al Dhahab's family in February.
It's worth mentioning that Sheikh Majec Al Dhahab assassination attempt came days after a cell of five members of Al Qaeda was arrested in Sanaa.
After his 14-year old son was killed by a parcel bomb, he received immediately a call saying "We will kill anyone who would stand against Al Qaeda."
That was the tribal sheikh of Kaifah of Rada'a, Al Baidha province, Majid Al Dhahab, who survived an assassination attempt on Saturday 28 July, 2012.
Two armed men came to the street where his is located in Aser area west of the capital Sanaa, where they found his son Ali playing with friends.
The two men , believed to be Al Qaeda operatives, handed Ali an a wrapped parcel and told it was a gift for his father from someone. A bomb was inside the parcel. Ali took it and entered his house to hand it his father, but he did not find his father. Ali opened the parcel and it exploded killing him immediately.
" Al Qaeda killed my son, Al Qaeda killed my son," Sheikh Majed said immediately after he heard the news of his son.
Shriek Majed is a cousin of Tarek Al Dhahab, Al Qaeda leader in Rada'a who was killed in February this year in clashes with tribal leaders who refuse Al Qaeda and its ideology.
Sheikh Majed Al Dhahab was one of prominent tribal leaders who led a campaign against Al Qaeda last February and forced them to get out from Radaa. Sheikh Hazem Al Dhahab, brother of Tarek, was also killed in the clashes after he killed his terrorist brother Tarek.
About 40 people were killed in the clashes including six brothers and nephews from Tarek Al Dhahab's family in February.
It's worth mentioning that Sheikh Majec Al Dhahab assassination attempt came days after a cell of five members of Al Qaeda was arrested in Sanaa.
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Three tribesmen and two Al Qaeda killed in renewed clashes in Jaar
Three tribesmen and two Al Qaeda killed in Jaar
By Nasser Arrabyee, 26/07/2012
Five people were killed in clashes between Al Qaeda fighters and tribesmen loyal to the government in Jaar, in the southern province of Abyan, said local sources on Thursday.
Two fighters from Al Qaeda and three from the tribesmen, known as anti-Al Qaeda popular committees, were killed in the clashes which continued until very early Thursday from late Wednesday, the sources said.
The clashes took place in Batis area at the outskirts of Jaar, in a signal that Al Qaeda is returning to Jaar after the government troops pushed them out from the town which was a Taliban-Style Emirate for about two years.
Meanwhile, five Al Qaeda elements were arrested in the heart of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, security sources said Thursday.
The arrest came less than one week after the ministry of interior said that Al Qaeda elements disguised in women clothes and military uniforms were trying to implement terrorist acts in Sanaa and other places.
By Nasser Arrabyee, 26/07/2012
Five people were killed in clashes between Al Qaeda fighters and tribesmen loyal to the government in Jaar, in the southern province of Abyan, said local sources on Thursday.
Two fighters from Al Qaeda and three from the tribesmen, known as anti-Al Qaeda popular committees, were killed in the clashes which continued until very early Thursday from late Wednesday, the sources said.
The clashes took place in Batis area at the outskirts of Jaar, in a signal that Al Qaeda is returning to Jaar after the government troops pushed them out from the town which was a Taliban-Style Emirate for about two years.
Meanwhile, five Al Qaeda elements were arrested in the heart of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, security sources said Thursday.
The arrest came less than one week after the ministry of interior said that Al Qaeda elements disguised in women clothes and military uniforms were trying to implement terrorist acts in Sanaa and other places.
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Relative of defected general killed after threats to reveal dangerous secrets
Yemeni capital Sanaa under Al Qaeda threat more than ever before
By Nasser Arrabyee, 19/07/2012
Mohammed Ali Al Kulaibi, son in law of the defected general Ali Muhsen, was killed in clashes with his brother in law Jubran Ali Muhsen inside the family house in Al Safya in Sanaa on Wednesday, said sources close to the victim on Thursday.
Al Kulaibi wanted to return his wife, daughter of general Ali Muhsen, to his house but her brother Jubran refused to do that, said the sources. The husband, Al Kulaibi, threatened to reveal secrets about the general Ali Muhsen's role in the violence of 2011 in Sanaa and Yemen as a whole if Jubran keeps refusing the return of his wife.
The son Jubran insisted to refuse and ordered his bodyguards to put him in a jail, the angry husband threw a hand grenade injuring Jubran and other family members, and when the guards at door started to shoot him dead, he threw another hand grenade to injure some of them as well.
All those injured and dead were taken to the hospital of Science and Technology next to the general's first armored division in Sanaa, according to the sources.
Yemeni capital Sanaa under Al Qaeda threat more than ever before
The Yemeni capital seems to have become the safest place for Al Qaeda operations, after the government troops defeated terrorists in remote areas.
The majority of the recently recruited fighters of Al Qaeda returned to Sanaa with the purpose of implementing terrorist acts against military and security targets and western interests, according to a press interview I previously made with one of those who returned to Sanaa.
A senior military official confirmed to me this week that those who were fighting in the southern province of Abyan returned to the main cities mainly to the capital Sanaa. "About 70 to 80 per cent of those who were fighting us here in Zinjubar, Jaar, and Shuqrah, went back to Sanaa and other main cities, because nobody knows them, they are very young," said the military official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to media.
" Those who are hiding are few and they are in the wanted lists to us and to the security agencies, they are the top leaders and the very famous operatives," He added.
The official made it clear that those who represent about 20 per cent were split into three groups according to military and security intelligence after the defeats of last month. One group made a camp in Al Mahfad, a mounteneous area between Shabwah and Abyan, and second group went to the eastern province of Hadhrmout, more specifically in Wadi Dawan in Sayoun, and the third group went to Rada'a in Al Baidha province. The recent estimate of Al Qaeda elements in the whole country is 10,000, according to sources close to Al Qaeda.
So, the majority of Al Qaeda elements, the young, the most dangerous are now in the Yemeni capital Sanaa among the normal people. The month of Ramadan, the the month of fasting which begins in July 20, is expected to witness many terrorist acts. Al Qaeda believes that Ramadan is the month of 'victories' over their enemies.
On Monday July 16th, 2012, the security forces arrested a young man wearing an explosive belt before he blew himself up among security forces who were doing their daily exercises in the Central Security Forces in Sanaa, according to security sources.
A day earlier, Sunday, a passerby was killed when he held a bag abandoned in the main street in Hezyaz area in the northern outskirts of Sanaa. The bag was full explosives, and was waiting for a military convoy. On Wednesday July 11, 2011, 10 students were killed and 20 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the Police Academy in Sanaa while getting out for the weekend. These incidents with different methods of using the explosives made the security officials think of the Saudi bomb maker Ibrahim Asiri more than ever before. Especially after reports that Asiri was seen in Sanaa over the last few days.
Why Al Qaeda kills the Police Academy students? Why not others?
The Al Qaeda suicide bombing that killed and injured more than 30 students from The Police Academy in Sanaa was to take revenge from this Academy, said security sources.
A group of students from this academy arrested a terrorist who led to the arrest of more than 10 Al Qaeda members who were behind the massacre of May 21 in which more than 100 soldiers were killed and 300 injured during a rehearsal parade in Sanaa.
Minutes after the massacre of May 21, known as Asabeen Massacre, the Police Academy students, arrested a suspected cameraman while filming the details of the explosion.
" we were very angry to see someone filming, we beat him nearly to death," said Fahd, a student from the Police Academy who participated in the arrest of the cameraman.
The camera man was a member of Al Qaeda, as identified later with a 10- member cell, was assigned to film the suicide bomber of Asabeen massacre before and during implementation of the operation.
It's him, and by the same camera, who filmed the suicide bomber Haitham Mufareh while saying his will before the bombing of Assabeen.
The video clip of Mufareh that was shown days after the massacre was found in the camera of this terrorist.
Observers view that Al Qaeda now is more dangerous than ever before, because it's among the people and close to their targets.
In an attempt to make the society hate and reject Al Qaeda, a condemnation campaign is still continuing in Sanaa to tell people about the crimes and massacres of Al Qaeda. The campaign started immediately after the biggest and most brutal massacre in which 100 soldiers were killed and 300 were injured in a rehearsal parade on May 21, 2012, in the parade square of Assabeen in the capital Sanaa.
The campaign, organized by the Central Security Forces, includes various activities and events held in the same square of Assabeen.
The pictures of all those who were killed and injured are shown, with a big screen showing the first moments of the suicide bombing every fife minutes. Families, relatives, friends, and angry people visit the place every day.
Colonel Sharaf Hamdeen, the officer in charge of the campaign, said that at least 1500 people visit the place and sign in a petition calling for putting those responsible for the massacre in trial and execute them in the same square.
Yemeni, Arab and international politicians and diplomat visit the place and write their condemnation of the massacre.
The major, Mahdi Al Jarbani, the commander of the 120-soldier battalion, which was almost totally killed by Al Qaeda suicide bomber, also visits the place from time to time to explain to the visitors how he was almost the only survivor. Al Jarbani was slightly injured. As a commander, Al Jarbani, was one meter away in front of the battalion of the Central Security Forces that was targeted by Al Qaeda on May 21, 2012.
" When I heard the explosion, I tried to keep standing, I did not feel I was injured, then, when I looked back, I saw no one from my battalion, I saw only arms,legs, heads, and bodies over each other in a sea of blood," said Major Mahdi Al Jarbani.
The leadership of the Central Security vowed repeatedly they would continue their campaign until the perpetrators are executed in the same square.
The sufferings are even more trmendous from Al Qaeda in the south where Al Qaeda ruled about one and a half year befor it was driven out last month.
Al Qaeda cut hands of more than 10 people and executed more than 5 including three alleged spys for Saudi Arabia and US in the three Taliban-Style emirates of Azzan, Jaar, and Zinjubar, the southern provinces of Shabwah and Abyan.
Khaled Abdul Azeez,32, from the village of Hajar, an area between Jaar, and Zinjubar, is a father of three children living in a house made of clay. Al Qaeda cut his right hand earlier this year after they accused him of stealing ammunition.
Khaled he did not steal anything, but Al Qaeda cut his hand because he refused to fight with them against the army. " I swear by Allah that I did not steal anything, and those who witnessed against me wanted to punish me because I refused to fight with them," said Khaled Abdul Azeez in an interview in his house last week. " Now after they cut my hand, who would support my wife and my kids, I can not work with only one hand," he complained.
Eyfak Ali Abdullah, 22, from Zinjubar, was another example of those who suffered from the brutal practices of Al Qaeda. His right hand was cut after he was accused of stealing an air conditioner. "They cut my hand without any trial, and sent me home without any help or treatment," he said.
Suffering of those who fled the fighting has not come to an end even after Al Qaeda was driven out from their areas.
About 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), are still away from their houses in Zinjubar and Jaar and neighboring areas despite the fact that Al Qaeda was driven out earlier last June. IDPs are still waiting for the basic services to return to their towns and villages which were greatly damaged by the war.
The IDPs are also afraid of the mines which were planted by Al Qaeda everywhere including mines inside their houses.
Waleed Nasser Saeed, 35, was the first IDP to be killed by a mine planted at the door of his house in Al Kud, at the outskirt of Zinjubar on June 10, 2012.
Waleed left his wife Sawsan,30, and his 3-year old sole son Abdul Munem, in the IDPs camp, Kataban school in Aden, and went back to see his house.
As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, and while trying to open it, a mine planted under the door exploded killing him and friend of his who came also to see his house. This incident and many others frightened the IDPs who can not wait to go home.
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By Nasser Arrabyee, 19/07/2012
Mohammed Ali Al Kulaibi, son in law of the defected general Ali Muhsen, was killed in clashes with his brother in law Jubran Ali Muhsen inside the family house in Al Safya in Sanaa on Wednesday, said sources close to the victim on Thursday.
Al Kulaibi wanted to return his wife, daughter of general Ali Muhsen, to his house but her brother Jubran refused to do that, said the sources. The husband, Al Kulaibi, threatened to reveal secrets about the general Ali Muhsen's role in the violence of 2011 in Sanaa and Yemen as a whole if Jubran keeps refusing the return of his wife.
The son Jubran insisted to refuse and ordered his bodyguards to put him in a jail, the angry husband threw a hand grenade injuring Jubran and other family members, and when the guards at door started to shoot him dead, he threw another hand grenade to injure some of them as well.
All those injured and dead were taken to the hospital of Science and Technology next to the general's first armored division in Sanaa, according to the sources.
Yemeni capital Sanaa under Al Qaeda threat more than ever before
The Yemeni capital seems to have become the safest place for Al Qaeda operations, after the government troops defeated terrorists in remote areas.
The majority of the recently recruited fighters of Al Qaeda returned to Sanaa with the purpose of implementing terrorist acts against military and security targets and western interests, according to a press interview I previously made with one of those who returned to Sanaa.
A senior military official confirmed to me this week that those who were fighting in the southern province of Abyan returned to the main cities mainly to the capital Sanaa. "About 70 to 80 per cent of those who were fighting us here in Zinjubar, Jaar, and Shuqrah, went back to Sanaa and other main cities, because nobody knows them, they are very young," said the military official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to media.
" Those who are hiding are few and they are in the wanted lists to us and to the security agencies, they are the top leaders and the very famous operatives," He added.
The official made it clear that those who represent about 20 per cent were split into three groups according to military and security intelligence after the defeats of last month. One group made a camp in Al Mahfad, a mounteneous area between Shabwah and Abyan, and second group went to the eastern province of Hadhrmout, more specifically in Wadi Dawan in Sayoun, and the third group went to Rada'a in Al Baidha province. The recent estimate of Al Qaeda elements in the whole country is 10,000, according to sources close to Al Qaeda.
So, the majority of Al Qaeda elements, the young, the most dangerous are now in the Yemeni capital Sanaa among the normal people. The month of Ramadan, the the month of fasting which begins in July 20, is expected to witness many terrorist acts. Al Qaeda believes that Ramadan is the month of 'victories' over their enemies.
On Monday July 16th, 2012, the security forces arrested a young man wearing an explosive belt before he blew himself up among security forces who were doing their daily exercises in the Central Security Forces in Sanaa, according to security sources.
A day earlier, Sunday, a passerby was killed when he held a bag abandoned in the main street in Hezyaz area in the northern outskirts of Sanaa. The bag was full explosives, and was waiting for a military convoy. On Wednesday July 11, 2011, 10 students were killed and 20 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the Police Academy in Sanaa while getting out for the weekend. These incidents with different methods of using the explosives made the security officials think of the Saudi bomb maker Ibrahim Asiri more than ever before. Especially after reports that Asiri was seen in Sanaa over the last few days.
Why Al Qaeda kills the Police Academy students? Why not others?
The Al Qaeda suicide bombing that killed and injured more than 30 students from The Police Academy in Sanaa was to take revenge from this Academy, said security sources.
A group of students from this academy arrested a terrorist who led to the arrest of more than 10 Al Qaeda members who were behind the massacre of May 21 in which more than 100 soldiers were killed and 300 injured during a rehearsal parade in Sanaa.
Minutes after the massacre of May 21, known as Asabeen Massacre, the Police Academy students, arrested a suspected cameraman while filming the details of the explosion.
" we were very angry to see someone filming, we beat him nearly to death," said Fahd, a student from the Police Academy who participated in the arrest of the cameraman.
The camera man was a member of Al Qaeda, as identified later with a 10- member cell, was assigned to film the suicide bomber of Asabeen massacre before and during implementation of the operation.
It's him, and by the same camera, who filmed the suicide bomber Haitham Mufareh while saying his will before the bombing of Assabeen.
The video clip of Mufareh that was shown days after the massacre was found in the camera of this terrorist.
Observers view that Al Qaeda now is more dangerous than ever before, because it's among the people and close to their targets.
In an attempt to make the society hate and reject Al Qaeda, a condemnation campaign is still continuing in Sanaa to tell people about the crimes and massacres of Al Qaeda. The campaign started immediately after the biggest and most brutal massacre in which 100 soldiers were killed and 300 were injured in a rehearsal parade on May 21, 2012, in the parade square of Assabeen in the capital Sanaa.
The campaign, organized by the Central Security Forces, includes various activities and events held in the same square of Assabeen.
The pictures of all those who were killed and injured are shown, with a big screen showing the first moments of the suicide bombing every fife minutes. Families, relatives, friends, and angry people visit the place every day.
Colonel Sharaf Hamdeen, the officer in charge of the campaign, said that at least 1500 people visit the place and sign in a petition calling for putting those responsible for the massacre in trial and execute them in the same square.
Yemeni, Arab and international politicians and diplomat visit the place and write their condemnation of the massacre.
The major, Mahdi Al Jarbani, the commander of the 120-soldier battalion, which was almost totally killed by Al Qaeda suicide bomber, also visits the place from time to time to explain to the visitors how he was almost the only survivor. Al Jarbani was slightly injured. As a commander, Al Jarbani, was one meter away in front of the battalion of the Central Security Forces that was targeted by Al Qaeda on May 21, 2012.
" When I heard the explosion, I tried to keep standing, I did not feel I was injured, then, when I looked back, I saw no one from my battalion, I saw only arms,legs, heads, and bodies over each other in a sea of blood," said Major Mahdi Al Jarbani.
The leadership of the Central Security vowed repeatedly they would continue their campaign until the perpetrators are executed in the same square.
The sufferings are even more trmendous from Al Qaeda in the south where Al Qaeda ruled about one and a half year befor it was driven out last month.
Al Qaeda cut hands of more than 10 people and executed more than 5 including three alleged spys for Saudi Arabia and US in the three Taliban-Style emirates of Azzan, Jaar, and Zinjubar, the southern provinces of Shabwah and Abyan.
Khaled Abdul Azeez,32, from the village of Hajar, an area between Jaar, and Zinjubar, is a father of three children living in a house made of clay. Al Qaeda cut his right hand earlier this year after they accused him of stealing ammunition.
Khaled he did not steal anything, but Al Qaeda cut his hand because he refused to fight with them against the army. " I swear by Allah that I did not steal anything, and those who witnessed against me wanted to punish me because I refused to fight with them," said Khaled Abdul Azeez in an interview in his house last week. " Now after they cut my hand, who would support my wife and my kids, I can not work with only one hand," he complained.
Eyfak Ali Abdullah, 22, from Zinjubar, was another example of those who suffered from the brutal practices of Al Qaeda. His right hand was cut after he was accused of stealing an air conditioner. "They cut my hand without any trial, and sent me home without any help or treatment," he said.
Suffering of those who fled the fighting has not come to an end even after Al Qaeda was driven out from their areas.
About 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), are still away from their houses in Zinjubar and Jaar and neighboring areas despite the fact that Al Qaeda was driven out earlier last June. IDPs are still waiting for the basic services to return to their towns and villages which were greatly damaged by the war.
The IDPs are also afraid of the mines which were planted by Al Qaeda everywhere including mines inside their houses.
Waleed Nasser Saeed, 35, was the first IDP to be killed by a mine planted at the door of his house in Al Kud, at the outskirt of Zinjubar on June 10, 2012.
Waleed left his wife Sawsan,30, and his 3-year old sole son Abdul Munem, in the IDPs camp, Kataban school in Aden, and went back to see his house.
As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, and while trying to open it, a mine planted under the door exploded killing him and friend of his who came also to see his house. This incident and many others frightened the IDPs who can not wait to go home.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Sanaa under Al Qaeda threat more than ever before
By Nasser Arrabyee, 17/07/2012
The Yemeni capital seems to have become the safest place for Al Qaeda operations, after the government troops defeated terrorists in remote areas.
The majority of the recently recruited fighters of Al Qaeda returned to Sanaa with the purpose of implementing terrorist acts against military and security targets and western interests, according to a press interview I previously made with one of those who returned to Sanaa.
A senior military official confirmed to me this week that those who were fighting in the southern province of Abyan returned to the main cities mainly to the capital Sanaa. "About 70 to 80 per cent of those who were fighting us here in Zinjubar, Jaar, and Shuqrah, went back to Sanaa and other main cities, because nobody knows them, they are very young," said the military official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to media.
" Those who are hiding are few and they are in the wanted lists to us and to the security agencies, they are the top leaders and the very famous operatives," He added.
The official made it clear that those who represent about 20 per cent were split into three groups according to military and security intelligence after the defeats of last month. One group made a camp in Al Mahfad, a mounteneous area between Shabwah and Abyan, and second group went to the eastern province of Hadhrmout, more specifically in Wadi Dawan in Sayoun, and the third group went to Rada'a in Al Baidha province. The recent estimate of Al Qaeda elements in the whole country is 10,000, according to sources close to Al Qaeda.
So, the majority of Al Qaeda elements, the young, the most dangerous are now in the Yemeni capital Sanaa among the normal people. The month of Ramadan, the the month of fasting which begins in July 20, is expected to witness many terrorist acts. Al Qaeda believes that Ramadan is the month of 'victories' over their enemies.
On Monday July 16th, 2012, the security forces arrested a young man wearing an explosive belt before he blew himself up among security forces who were doing their daily exercises in the Central Security Forces in Sanaa, according to security sources.
A day earlier, Sunday, a passerby was killed when he held a bag abandoned in the main street in Hezyaz area in the northern outskirts of Sanaa. The bag was full explosives, and was waiting for a military convoy. On Wednesday July 11, 2011, 10 students were killed and 20 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the Police Academy in Sanaa while getting out for the weeken.
Why Al Qaeda kills the Police Academy students? Why not others?
The Al Qaeda suicide bombing that killed and injured more than 30 students from The Police Academy in Sanaa was to take revenge from this Academy, said security sources.
A group of students from this academy arrested a terrorist who led to the arrest of more than 10 Al Qaeda members who were behind the massacre of May 21 in which more than 100 soldiers were killed and 300 injured during a rehearsal parade in Sanaa.
Minutes after the massacre of May 21, known as Asabeen Massacre, the Police Academy students, arrested a suspected cameraman while filming the details of the explosion.
" we were very angry to see someone filming, we beat him nearly to death," said Fahd, a student from the Police Academy who participated in the arrest of the cameraman.
The camera man was a member of Al Qaeda, as identified later with a 10- member cell, was assigned to film the suicide bomber of Asabeen massacre before and during implementation of the operation.
It's him, and by the same camera, who filmed the suicide bomber Haitham Mufareh while saying his will before the bombing of Assabeen.
The video clip of Mufareh that was shown days after the massacre was found in the camera of this terrorist.
Observers view that Al Qaeda now is more dangerous than ever before, because it's among the people and close to their targets.
In an attempt to make the society hate and reject Al Qaeda, a condemnation campaign is still continuing in Sanaa to tell people about the crimes and massacres of Al Qaeda. The campaign started immediately after the biggest and most brutal massacre in which 100 soldiers were killed and 300 were injured in a rehearsal parade on May 21, 2012, in the parade square of Assabeen in the capital Sanaa.
The campaign, organized by the Central Security Forces, includes various activities and events held in the same square of Assabeen.
The pictures of all those who were killed and injured are shown, with a big screen showing the first moments of the suicide bombing every fife minutes. Families, relatives, friends, and angry people visit the place every day.
Colonel Sharaf Hamdeen, the officer in charge of the campaign, said that at least 1500 people visit the place and sign in a petition calling for putting those responsible for the massacre in trial and execute them in the same square.
Yemeni, Arab and international politicians and diplomat visit the place and write their condemnation of the massacre.
The major, Mahdi Al Jarbani, the commander of the 120-soldier battalion, which was almost totally killed by Al Qaeda suicide bomber, also visits the place from time to time to explain to the visitors how he was almost the only survivor. Al Jarbani was slightly injured. As a commander, Al Jarbani, was one meter away in front of the battalion of the Central Security Forces that was targeted by Al Qaeda on May 21, 2012.
" When I heard the explosion, I tried to keep standing, I did not feel I was injured, then, when I looked back, I saw no one from my battalion, I saw only arms,legs, heads, and bodies over each other in a sea of blood," said Major Mahdi Al Jarbani.
The leadership of the Central Security vowed repeatedly they would continue their campaign until the perpetrators are executed in the same square.
The sufferings are even more trmendous from Al Qaeda in the south where Al Qaeda ruled about one and a half year befor it was driven out last month.
Al Qaeda cut hands of more than 10 people and executed more than 5 including three alleged spys for Saudi Arabia and US in the three Taliban-Style emirates of Azzan, Jaar, and Zinjubar, the southern provinces of Shabwah and Abyan.
Khaled Abdul Azeez,32, from the village of Hajar, an area between Jaar, and Zinjubar, is a father of three children living in a house made of clay. Al Qaeda cut his right hand earlier this year after they accused him of stealing ammunition.
Khaled he did not steal anything, but Al Qaeda cut his hand because he refused to fight with them against the army. " I swear by Allah that I did not steal anything, and those who witnessed against me wanted to punish me because I refused to fight with them," said Khaled Abdul Azeez in an interview in his house last week. " Now after they cut my hand, who would support my wife and my kids, I can not work with only one hand," he complained.
Eyfak Ali Abdullah, 22, from Zinjubar, was another example of those who suffered from the brutal practices of Al Qaeda. His right hand was cut after he was accused of stealing an air conditioner. "They cut my hand without any trial, and sent me home without any help or treatment," he said.
Suffering of those who fled the fighting has not come to an end even after Al Qaeda was driven out from their areas.
About 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), are still away from their houses in Zinjubar and Jaar and neighboring areas despite the fact that Al Qaeda was driven out earlier last June. IDPs are still waiting for the basic services to return to their towns and villages which were greatly damaged by the war.
The IDPs are also afraid of the mines which were planted by Al Qaeda everywhere including mines inside their houses.
Waleed Nasser Saeed, 35, was the first IDP to be killed by a mine planted at the door of his house in Al Kud, at the outskirt of Zinjubar on June 10, 2012.
Waleed left his wife Sawsan,30, and his 3-year old sole son Abdul Munem, in the IDPs camp, Kataban school in Aden, and went back to see his house.
As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, and while trying to open it, a mine planted under the door exploded killing him and friend of his who came also to see his house. This incident and many others frightened the IDPs who can not wait to go home.
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The Yemeni capital seems to have become the safest place for Al Qaeda operations, after the government troops defeated terrorists in remote areas.
The majority of the recently recruited fighters of Al Qaeda returned to Sanaa with the purpose of implementing terrorist acts against military and security targets and western interests, according to a press interview I previously made with one of those who returned to Sanaa.
A senior military official confirmed to me this week that those who were fighting in the southern province of Abyan returned to the main cities mainly to the capital Sanaa. "About 70 to 80 per cent of those who were fighting us here in Zinjubar, Jaar, and Shuqrah, went back to Sanaa and other main cities, because nobody knows them, they are very young," said the military official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to media.
" Those who are hiding are few and they are in the wanted lists to us and to the security agencies, they are the top leaders and the very famous operatives," He added.
The official made it clear that those who represent about 20 per cent were split into three groups according to military and security intelligence after the defeats of last month. One group made a camp in Al Mahfad, a mounteneous area between Shabwah and Abyan, and second group went to the eastern province of Hadhrmout, more specifically in Wadi Dawan in Sayoun, and the third group went to Rada'a in Al Baidha province. The recent estimate of Al Qaeda elements in the whole country is 10,000, according to sources close to Al Qaeda.
So, the majority of Al Qaeda elements, the young, the most dangerous are now in the Yemeni capital Sanaa among the normal people. The month of Ramadan, the the month of fasting which begins in July 20, is expected to witness many terrorist acts. Al Qaeda believes that Ramadan is the month of 'victories' over their enemies.
On Monday July 16th, 2012, the security forces arrested a young man wearing an explosive belt before he blew himself up among security forces who were doing their daily exercises in the Central Security Forces in Sanaa, according to security sources.
A day earlier, Sunday, a passerby was killed when he held a bag abandoned in the main street in Hezyaz area in the northern outskirts of Sanaa. The bag was full explosives, and was waiting for a military convoy. On Wednesday July 11, 2011, 10 students were killed and 20 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the Police Academy in Sanaa while getting out for the weeken.
Why Al Qaeda kills the Police Academy students? Why not others?
The Al Qaeda suicide bombing that killed and injured more than 30 students from The Police Academy in Sanaa was to take revenge from this Academy, said security sources.
A group of students from this academy arrested a terrorist who led to the arrest of more than 10 Al Qaeda members who were behind the massacre of May 21 in which more than 100 soldiers were killed and 300 injured during a rehearsal parade in Sanaa.
Minutes after the massacre of May 21, known as Asabeen Massacre, the Police Academy students, arrested a suspected cameraman while filming the details of the explosion.
" we were very angry to see someone filming, we beat him nearly to death," said Fahd, a student from the Police Academy who participated in the arrest of the cameraman.
The camera man was a member of Al Qaeda, as identified later with a 10- member cell, was assigned to film the suicide bomber of Asabeen massacre before and during implementation of the operation.
It's him, and by the same camera, who filmed the suicide bomber Haitham Mufareh while saying his will before the bombing of Assabeen.
The video clip of Mufareh that was shown days after the massacre was found in the camera of this terrorist.
Observers view that Al Qaeda now is more dangerous than ever before, because it's among the people and close to their targets.
In an attempt to make the society hate and reject Al Qaeda, a condemnation campaign is still continuing in Sanaa to tell people about the crimes and massacres of Al Qaeda. The campaign started immediately after the biggest and most brutal massacre in which 100 soldiers were killed and 300 were injured in a rehearsal parade on May 21, 2012, in the parade square of Assabeen in the capital Sanaa.
The campaign, organized by the Central Security Forces, includes various activities and events held in the same square of Assabeen.
The pictures of all those who were killed and injured are shown, with a big screen showing the first moments of the suicide bombing every fife minutes. Families, relatives, friends, and angry people visit the place every day.
Colonel Sharaf Hamdeen, the officer in charge of the campaign, said that at least 1500 people visit the place and sign in a petition calling for putting those responsible for the massacre in trial and execute them in the same square.
Yemeni, Arab and international politicians and diplomat visit the place and write their condemnation of the massacre.
The major, Mahdi Al Jarbani, the commander of the 120-soldier battalion, which was almost totally killed by Al Qaeda suicide bomber, also visits the place from time to time to explain to the visitors how he was almost the only survivor. Al Jarbani was slightly injured. As a commander, Al Jarbani, was one meter away in front of the battalion of the Central Security Forces that was targeted by Al Qaeda on May 21, 2012.
" When I heard the explosion, I tried to keep standing, I did not feel I was injured, then, when I looked back, I saw no one from my battalion, I saw only arms,legs, heads, and bodies over each other in a sea of blood," said Major Mahdi Al Jarbani.
The leadership of the Central Security vowed repeatedly they would continue their campaign until the perpetrators are executed in the same square.
The sufferings are even more trmendous from Al Qaeda in the south where Al Qaeda ruled about one and a half year befor it was driven out last month.
Al Qaeda cut hands of more than 10 people and executed more than 5 including three alleged spys for Saudi Arabia and US in the three Taliban-Style emirates of Azzan, Jaar, and Zinjubar, the southern provinces of Shabwah and Abyan.
Khaled Abdul Azeez,32, from the village of Hajar, an area between Jaar, and Zinjubar, is a father of three children living in a house made of clay. Al Qaeda cut his right hand earlier this year after they accused him of stealing ammunition.
Khaled he did not steal anything, but Al Qaeda cut his hand because he refused to fight with them against the army. " I swear by Allah that I did not steal anything, and those who witnessed against me wanted to punish me because I refused to fight with them," said Khaled Abdul Azeez in an interview in his house last week. " Now after they cut my hand, who would support my wife and my kids, I can not work with only one hand," he complained.
Eyfak Ali Abdullah, 22, from Zinjubar, was another example of those who suffered from the brutal practices of Al Qaeda. His right hand was cut after he was accused of stealing an air conditioner. "They cut my hand without any trial, and sent me home without any help or treatment," he said.
Suffering of those who fled the fighting has not come to an end even after Al Qaeda was driven out from their areas.
About 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), are still away from their houses in Zinjubar and Jaar and neighboring areas despite the fact that Al Qaeda was driven out earlier last June. IDPs are still waiting for the basic services to return to their towns and villages which were greatly damaged by the war.
The IDPs are also afraid of the mines which were planted by Al Qaeda everywhere including mines inside their houses.
Waleed Nasser Saeed, 35, was the first IDP to be killed by a mine planted at the door of his house in Al Kud, at the outskirt of Zinjubar on June 10, 2012.
Waleed left his wife Sawsan,30, and his 3-year old sole son Abdul Munem, in the IDPs camp, Kataban school in Aden, and went back to see his house.
As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, and while trying to open it, a mine planted under the door exploded killing him and friend of his who came also to see his house. This incident and many others frightened the IDPs who can not wait to go home.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Why Al Qaeda kills the Police Academy students? Why not others?
By Nasser Arrabyee,11/07/2012
The Al Qaeda suicide bombing that killed and injured more than 30 students from The Police Academy in Sanaa today Wednesday was to take revenge from this Academy, said security sources.
A group of students from this academy arrested a terrorist who led to the arrest of more than 10 Al Qaeda members who were behind the massacre of May 21 in which more than 100 soldiers were killed and 300 injured during a rehearsal parade in Sanaa.
Minutes after the massacre of
May 21, known as Asabeen Massacre, the Police Academy students, arrested a suspected cameraman while filming the details of the explosion.
" we were very angry to see someone filming, we beat him nearly to death," said Fahd, a student from the Police Academy who participated in the arrest of the cameraman.
The camera man was a member of Al Qaeda, as identified later with a 10- member cell, was assigned to film the suicide bomber of Asabeen massacre before and during and during he implements the operation.
It's him, and by the same camera, who filmed the suicide bomber Haitham Mufareh while saying his will before the bombing.
The video clip of Mufareh that was shown days after the massacre was found in the camera of this terrorist.
An earlier retaliation attack against the same Police Academy failed when an angry member of Al Qaeda infiltrated to the Academy two weeks after Asabeen massacre with a gun machine. He seemed to have wanted to kill as many as possible, but he was arrested easily before he even fires a single bullet, said sources from the Academy.
The Al Qaeda suicide bombing that killed and injured more than 30 students from The Police Academy in Sanaa today Wednesday was to take revenge from this Academy, said security sources.
A group of students from this academy arrested a terrorist who led to the arrest of more than 10 Al Qaeda members who were behind the massacre of May 21 in which more than 100 soldiers were killed and 300 injured during a rehearsal parade in Sanaa.
Minutes after the massacre of
May 21, known as Asabeen Massacre, the Police Academy students, arrested a suspected cameraman while filming the details of the explosion.
" we were very angry to see someone filming, we beat him nearly to death," said Fahd, a student from the Police Academy who participated in the arrest of the cameraman.
The camera man was a member of Al Qaeda, as identified later with a 10- member cell, was assigned to film the suicide bomber of Asabeen massacre before and during and during he implements the operation.
It's him, and by the same camera, who filmed the suicide bomber Haitham Mufareh while saying his will before the bombing.
The video clip of Mufareh that was shown days after the massacre was found in the camera of this terrorist.
An earlier retaliation attack against the same Police Academy failed when an angry member of Al Qaeda infiltrated to the Academy two weeks after Asabeen massacre with a gun machine. He seemed to have wanted to kill as many as possible, but he was arrested easily before he even fires a single bullet, said sources from the Academy.
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Al Qaeda re-integrated in Yemen or gone?
By Nasser Arrabyee,03/07/2012
Al Qaeda is not finished. It's only regrouping with new tactics. Al Qaeda says that the so-called Arab Spring must end only with the Islamic Caliphate they have been fighting for. Al Qaeda also says that it is the essential component of the revolutions in Yemen and all the Arab Spring countries.
" But we would not allow the Americans to tailor our revolutions as it wishes," said A.M.A, a member of Al Qaeda who shaved his beard and reintegrated in the society after Al Qaeda announced last month what it callec "withdrawal" from towns in the south of Yemen previously declared as Taliban-Style Emirates.
"The Americans and their agents will not defeat us except if they kill all Muslims," said A.M.A in an interview in the Yemeni capital Sanaa where he lives with hundreds of his comrades who call themselves Ansar Al Shariah, supporters of Shariah.
He said that he faces no problem at all going wherever he likes in the city of Sanaa or any other city in Yemen. " The people like us, and the people hate America, and the people are ready to hide us in their eyes," He said " and I am not afraid if I am killed or put in prison."
" The US drone attacks are attacks on Yemen and all Muslims and not only on us," He said.
"We must establish Islamic government here in Yemen which must pave the way for establishing an Islamic Caliphate based on freedom and justice, and Jaar and Azzan were the best example for that," He said referring to the two Emirates that Al Qaeda was driven out from them last month after a year and a half of Taliban-Style rule.
The Al Qaeda member A.M.A is one example of thousands of supporters who disappeared all of a sudden after the Yemeni government restored many areas in The southern provinces of Abyan and Shabwah with direct American and Saudi support.
In Jaar, 65 km east of Aden, many people told me last week, that they had liked Al Qaeda and they now want it to return.
" Al Qaeda provided many basic services to us, like water Quranic schools, teaching people how to pray, and obligate every one to go to the mosque, and security, and now what this government would give us, nothing," said Khaled Mohammed, a local resident from Jaar.
Al Qaeda in Yemen can be integrated into the society very easily whenever it wants to do that for tactical reasons like the time being.
Shiekh Abdul Majid Al Zandani who is accused by US and UN of supporting the global terrorism, said this week that he and a numbers extremist scholars must be appointed by the new President Hadi as the supreme guides for the coming national dialogue. Al Zandani insists that Al Qaeda must be involved in the dialogue.
The coming national dialogue would the second and the last stage of the transitional period that is supposed to end in February 2014 according to the Saudi-led and US-supported deal that ended the Yemeni crisis.
Al Zandani said in a statement issued by a religious organization established by him last year, that the scholars of this organization would be telling all those involved in the coming national comprehensive dialogue what is the right to do and what is the wrong not to do.
Al Zandani's party, the Islamist party, Islah ( Yemen Muslim brotherhood), has been demanding the release of at least 26 men accused of having links with Al Qaeda. Islah is saying that these men were put in prison for their political point of views and they were only kidnapped from the protests squares during the protests of 2011.
The Yemeni Socialist Party is complaining from being marginalized and excluded by the Islamist party, Islah. In a statement issued Monday July 2,2012, by its political bureau, the YSP said that Islah is trying to dominate everything in the South.
Al Qaeda is very active in the capital Sanaa and other main cities like Aden now after hundreds if not thousands of its fighters returned from battles with their beards shaved or at least trimmed.
The intelligence official, Colonel Mohammed Al Kudami, was assassinated on Monday July 2, 2012, in the capital Sanaa, only few days after about 10 suicide bombers were arrested before they implemented terrorist acts against Yemeni and Western officials and interests in the Yemeni capital.
Two camps at least are still in operation now by Al Qaeda, one in Al Mahfad, mountaneous area between Abyan and Shabwah, and it is the main, and the other is in Wadi Bin Ali, in Sayoun, Hudhrmout province.
But even these camps, Al Qaeda is also trying integrate into the society to avoid the air strikes .
Al Qaeda is not finished. It's only regrouping with new tactics. Al Qaeda says that the so-called Arab Spring must end only with the Islamic Caliphate they have been fighting for. Al Qaeda also says that it is the essential component of the revolutions in Yemen and all the Arab Spring countries.
" But we would not allow the Americans to tailor our revolutions as it wishes," said A.M.A, a member of Al Qaeda who shaved his beard and reintegrated in the society after Al Qaeda announced last month what it callec "withdrawal" from towns in the south of Yemen previously declared as Taliban-Style Emirates.
"The Americans and their agents will not defeat us except if they kill all Muslims," said A.M.A in an interview in the Yemeni capital Sanaa where he lives with hundreds of his comrades who call themselves Ansar Al Shariah, supporters of Shariah.
He said that he faces no problem at all going wherever he likes in the city of Sanaa or any other city in Yemen. " The people like us, and the people hate America, and the people are ready to hide us in their eyes," He said " and I am not afraid if I am killed or put in prison."
" The US drone attacks are attacks on Yemen and all Muslims and not only on us," He said.
"We must establish Islamic government here in Yemen which must pave the way for establishing an Islamic Caliphate based on freedom and justice, and Jaar and Azzan were the best example for that," He said referring to the two Emirates that Al Qaeda was driven out from them last month after a year and a half of Taliban-Style rule.
The Al Qaeda member A.M.A is one example of thousands of supporters who disappeared all of a sudden after the Yemeni government restored many areas in The southern provinces of Abyan and Shabwah with direct American and Saudi support.
In Jaar, 65 km east of Aden, many people told me last week, that they had liked Al Qaeda and they now want it to return.
" Al Qaeda provided many basic services to us, like water Quranic schools, teaching people how to pray, and obligate every one to go to the mosque, and security, and now what this government would give us, nothing," said Khaled Mohammed, a local resident from Jaar.
Al Qaeda in Yemen can be integrated into the society very easily whenever it wants to do that for tactical reasons like the time being.
Shiekh Abdul Majid Al Zandani who is accused by US and UN of supporting the global terrorism, said this week that he and a numbers extremist scholars must be appointed by the new President Hadi as the supreme guides for the coming national dialogue. Al Zandani insists that Al Qaeda must be involved in the dialogue.
The coming national dialogue would the second and the last stage of the transitional period that is supposed to end in February 2014 according to the Saudi-led and US-supported deal that ended the Yemeni crisis.
Al Zandani said in a statement issued by a religious organization established by him last year, that the scholars of this organization would be telling all those involved in the coming national comprehensive dialogue what is the right to do and what is the wrong not to do.
Al Zandani's party, the Islamist party, Islah ( Yemen Muslim brotherhood), has been demanding the release of at least 26 men accused of having links with Al Qaeda. Islah is saying that these men were put in prison for their political point of views and they were only kidnapped from the protests squares during the protests of 2011.
The Yemeni Socialist Party is complaining from being marginalized and excluded by the Islamist party, Islah. In a statement issued Monday July 2,2012, by its political bureau, the YSP said that Islah is trying to dominate everything in the South.
Al Qaeda is very active in the capital Sanaa and other main cities like Aden now after hundreds if not thousands of its fighters returned from battles with their beards shaved or at least trimmed.
The intelligence official, Colonel Mohammed Al Kudami, was assassinated on Monday July 2, 2012, in the capital Sanaa, only few days after about 10 suicide bombers were arrested before they implemented terrorist acts against Yemeni and Western officials and interests in the Yemeni capital.
Two camps at least are still in operation now by Al Qaeda, one in Al Mahfad, mountaneous area between Abyan and Shabwah, and it is the main, and the other is in Wadi Bin Ali, in Sayoun, Hudhrmout province.
But even these camps, Al Qaeda is also trying integrate into the society to avoid the air strikes .
Monday, 2 July 2012
UAE raises money to help Yemen, and calls other countries to do the same
Source: GulfNews, 02/07/2012
Yemen’s stability impacts all countries in the Arabian Gulf region
We cannot afford to let Yemen starve
Yemen is always described as the Arabian Peninsula’s strategic depth. Its stability or lack of it impacts all the countries in the Arabian Gulf region. Thus, the GCC moved swiftly to help Yemen restore its political stability, following the unrest of last year.
The plan, which saw the transfer of power from former president Ali Abdullah Saleh to his deputy and followed by a presidential election, was devised by the GCC and it helped avoid a civil strife that was brewing in the impoverished country.
But following the restoration of stability, the economic situation began to deteriorate and thousands of people were in danger of famine due to displacement and a year-long political and social unrest.
Few countries responded to the calls of Yemenis for aid. One of those few countries is the UAE. The UAE has always been at the forefront in providing humanitarian aid. President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan was the first to answer the call of the Yemenis by ordering Dh500 million in food aid.
Yesterday, ‘Sanadhom’, the UAE campaign to aid Yemen, concluded wherein millions of dirhams were collected through a nation-wide telethon. It is hoped that other countries will follow the UAE’s example and move in to help the people of Yemen.
We cannot afford and should not allow our strategic depth to be left starving. It is strategically and morally unacceptable.
Yemen’s stability impacts all countries in the Arabian Gulf region
We cannot afford to let Yemen starve
Yemen is always described as the Arabian Peninsula’s strategic depth. Its stability or lack of it impacts all the countries in the Arabian Gulf region. Thus, the GCC moved swiftly to help Yemen restore its political stability, following the unrest of last year.
The plan, which saw the transfer of power from former president Ali Abdullah Saleh to his deputy and followed by a presidential election, was devised by the GCC and it helped avoid a civil strife that was brewing in the impoverished country.
But following the restoration of stability, the economic situation began to deteriorate and thousands of people were in danger of famine due to displacement and a year-long political and social unrest.
Few countries responded to the calls of Yemenis for aid. One of those few countries is the UAE. The UAE has always been at the forefront in providing humanitarian aid. President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan was the first to answer the call of the Yemenis by ordering Dh500 million in food aid.
Yesterday, ‘Sanadhom’, the UAE campaign to aid Yemen, concluded wherein millions of dirhams were collected through a nation-wide telethon. It is hoped that other countries will follow the UAE’s example and move in to help the people of Yemen.
We cannot afford and should not allow our strategic depth to be left starving. It is strategically and morally unacceptable.
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