SANA, Yemen — Hundreds of Republican Guard forces loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former president of Yemen, circled the Defense Ministry in Sana for several hours early on Friday, protesting a move to strip the former president’s son of part of his military command, officials said.

The officers and soldiers of the country’s best trained force, which has been led by Saleh’s son, Ahmed, rallied at the ministry starting late Thursday. Officials said that military officers had informed them that the force would try to storm the ministry, prompting authorities to deploy tanks and armored vehicles to the area. Government forces threatened to open fire if the protesters did not leave. The demonstration ended several hours later.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. Saleh stepped down as part of deal brokered by Yemen’s neighboring Gulf countries and backed by the United States in return for immunity from prosecution. His successor, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, has pledged to restructure the armed forces in order to unify its ranks and end divided loyalties.

Despite promises to shake up the military, Hadi faced resistance from Saleh, who warned that without him and his supporters in office, the country’s security would suffer. Previous orders to remove or demote Saleh loyalists were challenged.

On Monday, Hadi tried to undermine Saleh’s son’s command of the Republican Guard by ordering his Presidential Guard to take charge of several of the Saleh-loyalist battalions. Hadi also ordered the transfer of financial and administrative control to the president’s office.

The military has been engaged in deadly battles against Al Qaeda front groups in the south of the country, where militants took control of several cities, towns, and large swaths of land during a security vacuum left by last year’s uprising.

The United States considers Al Qaeda in The Arabian Peninsula as the most dangerous offshoot of the terror network, which has carried out several failed attacks against US targets. With US help, the Yemeni military in June managed to end Al Qaeda control over several urban strongholds including Zinjibar and Jaar. Al Qaeda retaliated with a wave of assassinations of top military and security officials. However, officials say that old regime loyalists are also involved in targeting Hadi’s aides and those who joined last year’s revolution.

 What's that? ONE SENTENCE of TRUTH in PILE of TURD?

Security officials said that a top military official named Omar Barsheed, who headed the Military Academy, was killed with his son when his car blew up in the city of Mukallah in the south late Thursday.

 Gee, who coulda done that?

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. Saleh has been seen as trying to hold on to power from behind the scene. Weekly protests by youth groups demand that Hadi be held to account for killings of protesters during the uprising.

 Are those ever some forgotten protests, huh?

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"Yemen charges 62 with mutiny" Associated Press, August 17, 2012

SANA, Yemen — Sixty-two officers and soldiers loyal to the son of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh were charged with resisting authorities and mutiny after trying to storm the Ministry of Defense earlier this week, a senior Yemeni security official said Thursday.

High Security Committee spokesman General Ali al-Ubaidi said that the 62 officers and soldiers will be referred to a military tribunal for joining a force of 200 in the sudden attack on the ministry two days earlier, in which they allegedly fired automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at guards. The ensuing firefight left one attacker, two ministry guards, and two civilians dead.

The committee, headed by Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, was founded as part of a power transfer deal after last year’s uprising that ended the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh. The committee controls Yemen’s top security issues.

The soldiers charged belong to Republican Guard units led by Ahmed Saleh, the former president’s son, who were protesting a decree that put some units under presidential oversight.

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 So who do you think attacked the spy base?

"Al Qaeda militants accused of attack on Yemen spy base" by Ahmed Al-Haj  |  Associated Press, August 19, 2012

SANA, Yemen — Suspected Al Qaeda militants attacked a Yemeni intelligence headquarters on Saturday, killing 20 people in a bold attack in the nation’s main southern city of Aden, officials said.

"Al-Saleh-Duh!"

The attack in the heart of the port city underscored Al Qaeda’s ability to launch deadly strikes despite a two-month Yemeni military offensive supported by the United States that earlier this year dislodged militants who had taken control of a string of southern towns near Aden.

Militants attacked the intelligence building from two sides, firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, according to intelligence officials in the city and witnesses from the adjacent state TV and radio building. By the end of the day, 20 were dead. All were military and security men except for one civilian.

Al Qaeda-linked militants took advantage of political turmoil in Yemen to overrun several major towns in Abyan province, neighboring Aden. They held many of them for months until the military drove them out of most areas in May, including the Abyan provincial capital of Zinjibar and the nearby town of Jaar. More than 100,000 people fled the violence there, with many taking refuge in makeshift shelters and schools in Aden. 


Many of the militants escaped into nearby mountains, however, and have continued to carry out attacks. Suicide bombings and assassinations have targeted officials in Aden tasked with fighting Al Qaeda. An Al Qaeda front group, Ansar al-Shariah, was behind the kidnapping of a Saudi diplomat in the port of Aden in March. 

Man, there is so much Al-Qaeda around I need to take a crap. 

Who are the terrorists again?

The area has had other violence as well. Earlier this week, gunmen stormed a passenger plane after it landed in Aden and grabbed an opposition leader from his seat and spirited him away to an unknown destination. 

Sure looks like Saleh's men to me.

The masked gunmen burst into the airport building first, meeting no resistance from airport security. They then ran onto the runway and boarded the plane to kidnap retired Major General Ahmed Abdullah al-Hassani, a former Yemeni navy commander and a prominent campaigner for the south’s secession.

It is not clear who was behind the abduction. 

It is to me.

The United States considers Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as the terror network’s most dangerous offshoot, held responsible for several failed attacks on US territory. 

Yup, CIA-Duh, yup. whatever. 

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"Yemen marchers want leader on trial" Associated Press, September 08, 2012

SANA, Yemen — Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets after Friday prayers in the capital, Sana, demanding the prosecution of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the longtime autocratic leader who stepped down in February after a yearlong uprising.

Protesters raised banners reading, ‘‘The trial is coming.’’ Witnesses say demonstrators marched in other Yemeni cities as well.

Saleh signed a power transfer deal that gave him immunity from prosecution in return for leaving office.

However, his public appearance earlier this week in a celebration at the headquarters of his ruling party, which he still heads, sparked public anger and renewed calls for his prosecution over the deaths of protesters and over corruption.

Saleh continues to exert considerable influence through family members in key positions in the security forces.

 Meaning that U.S.-brokered peace deal was a piece of shit. 

Yemen’s new president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, has tried since assuming office to purge Saleh associates from key positions, but critics of the ousted president say he is still using his allies to stir unrest.

 Unrest is the polite, agenda-pushing, mouthpiece media term for terrorism.

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"Yemen’s defense minister eludes assassination; 7 bodyguards, 5 civilians killed in powerful blast" by Alan Cowell and Nasser Arrabyee  |  New York Times, September 12, 2012

SANA, Yemen — A car bomb exploded Tuesday alongside a convoy of vehicles used by Yemen’s defense minister, killing seven bodyguards and five civilians in the heart of the capital, Sana, while the minister escaped unharmed, government and hospital officials said.

 Gee, who would want to have done that?

The attack came one day after a top Al Qaeda operative was killed in what Yemeni officials called a US drone strike.

 I'm sorry, I'm not making the connection my pos war paper is inferring and implying.

The episodes spoke to continued turmoil in poverty-stricken Yemen, where the United States is seeking to eradicate militant cells held responsible for a number of conspiracies, including an attempt by an operative of Al Qaeda to detonate an underwear bomb on a flight bound for Detroit in December 2009....

 Don't s*** your pants when you read the real story.

No group claimed responsibility in the hours immediately after the attack, which seemed similar to earlier bombings ascribed to Al Qaeda. Militants have struck at government targets in Yemen in retaliation for the government’s campaign against Al Qaeda cells....

 Ah, the HALLMARK of an INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ASSET OPERATION! And the lying, deceiving war paper blamed Al-CIA-Duh?

The Yemeni authorities have fought a long campaign against encroachment by Al Qaeda militants, who have sought to show their resolve by striking back....

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"Yemeni security officer for US Embassy killed" by Ahmed Al Haj  |  Associated Press, October 12, 2012

SANA, Yemen — A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official who worked for the US Embassy in a drive-by shooting Thursday near his home in the capital, officials said, adding that the assault bore the hallmarks of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch.

 Have YOU HAD ENOUGH, readers of the world? I'm sorry, but THIS IS THE BULLSHIT I am FED as an AmeriKan news consumer!

The attack comes amid a sharp deterioration of security in Yemen and several other Muslim countries since the collapse of police states controlled by autocratic leaders during a wave of uprisings known as the Arab Spring.

An elite team of some 50 Marines that was sent to Sana to bolster security at the US Embassy after a Sept. 13 attack by protesters was scheduled to leave later Thursday, and it was not clear if the attack would affect those plans, Yemeni officials said.

The officials noted it was similar to a series of other recent assaults by Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, although they said it was too early to confirm the group’s involvement. Washington considers the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula the most dangerous offshoot of the terror network. It has also been increasingly targeting Yemeni intelligence, military, and security officials in retaliation for a US-backed government offensive in the south.

 Or it could be Saleh's people raising hell. 

Yemeni security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information, identified the slain embassy security official as Qassem Aqlani, in his 50s....

Aqlani had been working for the US Embassy for nearly 20 years. Yemeni officials initially said he was the lead investigator into last month’s assault on the compound by Yemenis protesting an anti-Islam film.

 Except the film was a fake, and nothing more than a cover story for a concerted effort of controlled opposition protests and false flag terror attacks. 

But State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said he was not involved in the investigation. In the Sept. 13 assault, protesters stormed the embassy and set fire to a US flag before government forces dispersed them with tear gas.

Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch has called for attacks on US embassies in a bid to take advantage of the anti-American sentiment that has swept the Middle East and other parts of the Muslim world in the past month over the film, which denigrated the Prophet Mohammed.

Initially, the film was linked to a Sept. 11 attack on the US Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. US officials said later that the attack was not linked to the video and was a terrorist attack.

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Related: Al Qaeda raid kills 14 Yemeni soldiers

 They were "disguised in military uniforms?"

"Yemen security official assassinated" by Ahmed Al-Haj  |  Associated Press, November 08, 2012

SANA, Yemen — A Yemeni intelligence officer was slain in a drive-by shooting by unidentified gunmen Wednesday in the capital, Sana, in the latest attack against security forces in the country, officials said....

Officials say they believe that Al Qaeda is waging a retaliation campaign against top officials after an offensive pushed militants out of strongholds in southern Yemen.

 Uh-huh.

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 Who would want that job?

"Al Qaeda offers bounty for US ambassador in Yemen" Associated Press, December 31, 2012

SANA, Yemen — Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the US ambassador in Sana or an American soldier in the country.

 That's not the way I want my tax money being used.

An audio produced by the group’s media arm, the al-Malahem Foundation, and posted on militant websites Saturday said it offered $160,000 in gold for killing the ambassador, Gerald Feierstein. The group said it will pay $23,000 to anyone who kills an American soldier inside Yemen.

 Pffft!

It said the offer is valid for six months. The bounties were set to ‘‘inspire and encourage our Muslim nation for jihad,’’ the statement said.

The US Embassy in Sana did not respond to call seeking comment. Washington considers Al Qaeda in Yemen to be the group’s most dangerous branch. The group overran towns and villages last year by taking advantage of a security lapse during nationwide protests that eventually ousted the country’s longtime ruler.

 Are you tired of crap background paragraphs that reinforce the crap narrative?

Backed by the US military experts based at a southern air base, Yemen’s army was able to regain control of the southern region, but militants continue to launch deadly attacks on security forces that have killed hundreds.

 Are you sure it was "militants?"

In the capital, Sana, security officials said two gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed two intelligence officers early Sunday as they were leaving a downtown security facility. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to regulations, said all intelligence and security officers have been instructed to take precautionary measures outside working hours.

 Sure are killing a lot of security and intelligence officials -- almost as if they knew where they would be. 

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 And get a load of this pos propaganda under cover of drone bases in Africa:

"US plans drone base in Africa" by Eric Schmitt  |  New York Times, January 29, 2013

WASHINGTON — In a separate development Monday, US officials said authorities in Yemen seized a boat in their territorial waters filled with a large quantity of explosives, weapons, and money. The authorities are investigating whether Iran was smuggling the military contraband, including shoulder-launched missiles, to insurgents inside Yemen. The United States assisted in the interdiction last week, the officials said.

 Ummm, SHI'ITE IRAN helping the SUNNI AL-QAEDA that consider them worse heretics than westerners and are slaughtering Shi'ites in Iraq, Pakistan, and other places?  

 Is there no end to the amount of bulls*** the Jewish war organ known as the newspaper will shovel?

Yemen is already awash with small arms and explosives acquired over years of war and insurgency, much of it brought in from a number of foreign sources through its poorly controlled ports.

The United States has an acknowledged security assistance effort under way with Yemen. At the same time, the US military and the CIA are engaged in a clandestine program of using drones to strike militants associated with a terrorist organization, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen.

 I'm sure you don't want me droning on about that anymore.

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Also see: French, British, US warplanes and troops occupy Yemeni capital

Never saw a word of it in my Boston Globe. 

 Never saw anything about these things, either: 

Btw, who is "Al-CIA-Duh?"


What do you mean they were made up, and created for the courtroom!?


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Who are the "terrorists" again?

What other things aren't they telling us, huh?