Saudi-Yemeni Joint Border Ops, Fence
A good idea. Gen. Turki says AQAP are the greatest threat to Saudi Arabia. We knew that was their focus way back when the nine shoulder fired missles were smuggled from Yemen to SA. Also Saudis are planning an electronic fence to go with the berms and metal fencing. If its an effective fence, then it will cut into Yemen’s substantial black market economy- smuggling drugs, people and weapons into SA and the Gulf. That would prompt an economic crisis of different proportions.
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خاص ( الوطن ) – Special (home) –
بحث نائب رئيس الوزراء لشئون الدفاع والأمن وزير الإدارة المحلية اللواء رشاد العليمي مع الجانب السعودي آليات عمل جديدة لمواجهة البلدين لحضر تنظيم القاعدة في الدولتين. Deputy Prime Minister for Defense, Security, Local Administration Minister Rashad Al-Alimi Brigade with the Saudi side of new mechanisms of action to address the two countries attended the al-Qaeda in the two countries.وقالت مصادر لـ(الوطن) أن العليمي الذي بدأ زيارة رسمية امس الثلاثاء للمملكة عرض على الاستخبارات السعودية تشكيل فريق امني مشترك يتولى تنسيق العمل الأمني بين أجهزة الأمن في البلدين. The sources (home) that Eleimi official visit which started on Tuesday of the Kingdom of Saudi intelligence was presented to the formation of a joint security team to coordinate the work of security among the security services in both countries.
وسيتولى الفريق الإشراف والتخطيط لعمليات مشتركة في المناطق الحدودية بين اليمن والسعودية. The team will oversee the planning of joint operations in the border area between Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
وبحسب المصادر ذاتها سيعمل الفريق من خلال غرفة عمليات مشتركة ستضع ضمن أولوياتها إيقاف تنقل أعضاء القاعدة وتحركاتها في مناطق ، رصدت المخابرات اليمنية اتخاذها مركزا لتدريب وتنسيق عمل القاعدة وتقع على أراضي الدولتين. According to sources, the same team will work through a joint operations room will put a priority to stop the movement of al Qaeda members and their movements in the regions, made a Yemeni intelligence taken to train and coordinate the work of al-Qaeda and is located on the territory of the two countries.
Saudi Arabian security officials believe al-Qaeda-linked militants are seeking to organise and train in neighbouring Yemen to launch attacks in the kingdom.
General Mansour al-Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry, told the Financial Times that attacks launched from Yemen posed the greatest threat to the nation, which has spent the past six years battling al-Qaeda-affiliated militants internally.
“Al-Qaeda realises that it cannot work inside the kingdom but it is still targeting the kingdom and will keep targeting the kingdom,” he said. “The plan is to launch attacks from outside and they will try to be as close as possible to the kingdom.”
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“They know they have more room to operate in Yemen than in Saudi Arabia,” Gen Turki said. “They could provide themselves with safe havens, could find places to train, they could buy weapons, ammunition, explosive materials and probably it’s easier for them to communicate and to meet than they would in Saudi Arabia.”
Riyadh is hoping a contract to build an electric shield across its borders – including its frontier with Yemen – will be awarded this summer. The high-tech barrier, expected to cost at least $2bn (€1.5bn, £1bn), has been delayed.
The government has also been setting up a 35,000-strong security force to protect oil and other key sites from attack.
Gen Turki said 35 per cent of the force had been recruited and trained and was guarding oil and industrial sites.
