Leading al-Qaeda: Yemen will not confront the Mujahiadden
Recalling the June negotiation between al-Qaeda representatives, President Saleh and the head of the Political Security Organization, a leading Yemeni Taliban/al-Qaeda figure says Yemen is the best regime to deal with them. Apparently the truce is holding in spite of al-Raibee.
NY: A leading Yemeni in al-Qaeda and the Taliban government said that the killing of Fawaz al-Rabei and Mohammad al-Dailami “is not the end of al-Qaeda’s file in Yemen, because it is an ideology related to fundamental issues of this Umah(nation).
Rashad Mohammad Saeed (Abu al-Fida’a) refused in an interview with Al-Wasat newspaper to talk more about the story, but he condemned “bloodsheds by any organization”. He confirmed that what happened for al-Rabei and al-Dailami was “horrible and may have bad impacts in future”.
“The Yemeni government will not enter open confrontations with Mujahideen after the incident”. He said that Yemen was the best country to deal with Mujahideen (combatants) when it has adopted the dialogue method.
Abu al-Fida’a warned US Embassy in Yemen not to intervene in affairs of other peoples. “We are annoyed, like others, for its practices”, said Abu al-Fida’a referring to the US embassy in Sana’a.
He revealed that one of those involved in attacks on oil facilities in Marib and Hadhramout last September was one of the al-Qaeda escapees from the Political Security prison in Sana’a last February. He expected that other escapees might remain in Yemen. He called them to get the chance to better their situation in the society. “The legislative and personal interest is to settle their situations to continue productivity instead of losing them in events which have not moral positive consequences in this nation”, said Abu al-Fida’a.
The former leading member in Taliban government denied Yemen is included in the strategic plans of al-Qaeda. He said America has not potential interests in Yemen, saying that the latest events were “only a result of suffocation that those young people feel”.
Abu al-Fida’a, who came back to Yemen less than a month after Sept. 11 events, called regimes “to think of decisive solutions away from US interventions, like Yemen”.
“The results of dialogue in Yemen are positive and president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the head of the Political Security Organization, Ghalib al-Qamish, have showed true determination to solve the problems for personal and humanitarian concepts”, he said.
He said that the latest events in Yemen would not affect the dialogue and understanding as “keeping bloods, security and stability are the goals of all”.
He denied he knows al-Tharhani, the bodyguard of the presidential candidate Bin Shamlan, who was said to be al-Qaeda member.
Abu al-Fida’a challenged America to face al-Qaeda without alliances and threats against states, organizations, groups and parties to pressure them to cooperate with them against al-Qaeda.
“The US administration has trends against Arabs and Muslims and this feeds the al-Qaeda ideology and extends its network,” he said.
Abu al-Fida’a said that “war against al-Qaeda has given it some benefits such as the unity of Jihad groups under one flag, moving Jihad from centralization into decentralization, finding locations for recruiting combatants, publicly, attracting America to direct war with al-Qaeda instead of using other regimes and jaws as US agents and making al-Qaeda more dynamic by recruiting new bloods.
