Bogus Rumors of US Invasion Irks Tribes
The original fear-mongering report came out in one of the regime fronted stooge papers. The tribes then issued a statement warning against US assault. Yemeni tribes have been the subject of statements by Zawahiri and Saleh recently. Normally they have to kidnap a foreigner to get any publicity.
SANA’A, March 22 (Saba) – A Yemeni official source has denied that the US will carry out land and air strikes against al-Qaeda targets in Yemen, dismissing reports that a Yemeni official had made statements for the official website of the United States Department of Defense over the matter.
The state-run 26sep.net cited the source as saying all information included in the reports were untrue and baseless.
There is no official source in Yemen who had contacted the website in New York to tell them about a Yemeni-US deal to crackdown al-Qaeda militants in the country, the source made clear, adding some websites deliberately promulgated misinformation for only a purpose of propaganda.
