Bomb Near Ayban Police Station, Another Defused
Its quite similiar, nearly identical (timing, target, ordenance, location, damage) to the dozens of nuisance attacks in 2007/8 by the jihaddist “Yemen Soldiers Brigades” which took credit in a variety of internet statements. From al Sahwa:
A bomb exploded near a police building in south Yemen, authorities said, and security forces defused a bigger device set to go off outside a government office in the region, where secessionist feeling runs high.
A blast blew a hole in a fence outside a criminal investigation department building in Abyan province but caused no injuries, the website of the ruling party quoted security sources as saying.
A larger device, made of a mine attached to a timer, was defused after being planted and set to explode near the fence of the offices of a government watchdog in Abyan.
“Official sources said … outlaws were behind the two terrorist acts aimed at shaking security and stability in Abyan province,” it said. “The suspects will be tracked down and arrested to be punished through the courts.”
Gunmen killed four soldiers and wounded another last week in an ambush in Abyan, east of Aden — the capital of the former People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen which merged with its northern neighbour in 1990.
In July, at least another eight people were killed in clashes between security forces and armed men at an opposition gathering in Abyan to demand the release of detainees held during recent disturbances.
People in the south, home to most of Yemen’s oil facilities, have long complained that northerners abuse the unity agreement to grab their resources and discriminate against them.
