Jihaiddis Takfiring Socialists
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Sanaa, 26 June (AKI) - The authorities in Yemen have arrested 10 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in two different police operations conducted in the capital Sanaa and in the desert area of Hadramawt, in the south of the country.
According to a report in London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, among those arrested was one of al-Qaeda in Yemen’s top leaders, Haytham Bin Saad.
Bin Saad was detained with four other extremists in Hadramawt on Wednesday, while five others were arrested in the capital.
Bin Saad was sent to the prison in Sayun pending his transfer to Sanaa.
Meanwhile also on Wednesday, leaflets containing Jihadi propaganda were distributed in the southern province of Ibb.
The leaflets accused the secretary of the Socialist Party, Yahya Mansour Abu Asba of being a “unbeliever” and a “Communist”.
Asba has been assigned a police escort as there is concern that al-Qaeda terrorists could try to kill him.
In recent months, the al-Qaeda organisation in Yemen has resurfaced, claiming responsibility for an the 18 March missile attack on the American embassy in Sanaa.
At a press conference on Tuesday, deputy prime minister Abdel Rabboh Mansur Hadi said the authorities in Yemen have over the past three years expelled 61,000 foreigners considered to be close to Islamic extremism.
