Assorted Updates: North, South and “AQ” Assassination
Two more Saudi soldiers killed. Over 400 Saudi villages evacuated and reports emerge from regime of Pakistani (?) fighters with the Houthis. Abdullah al Houthi arrested inside SA, amid reports the rebels are intercepting Saudi communications. A bunch of arrests but longtime commander Yousef al Madani got away. Saudis still bombing miles inside Yemen.
Expat Southern leaders can’t get it together. Al Beidh’s Iran idea didn’t go over well, I hope. Its not a good idea at all. Regime accuses al Fadhli of mobilizing his
fighters. The movement is more fractured than ever. YP reports it was “Samih Ahmed Awadh Al-Halbeh one of Sami Diyan’s group who was caught at Hardh area while he was trying to escape outside the Yemeni territories.”
The murky story of the three assassinated security chiefs continues with Hadhramout tribes holding a meeting Monday in Taribah about the killings of the 3 security officers. They are expected to demand that Sana’a bring the actual killers to justice. The families have the same demand, and the funerals have not taken place yet. One theory is its yet another false flag attack and the killers were assassins paid by powerful and well-connected drug traffickers. Before Ali Salim Al Amri (from Hadramout) was appointed in July 2009, the traffickers had a good working arrangement with the previous security bosses who were northerners. All of which begs the question of Al Qaeda’s claim of responsibility as beautifully demonstrated by the following Yemen Observer write-up: Yemen Observer
Two senior criminal investigation officers were ambushed in the Khashm al-Ein area as they were returning from the al-Wadia’ area with two of their guards. Thursday al-Qaeda announced their responsibility for the attack in a statement put on a al-Qaeda website. The statement also said that Abdullah Battis was the leader of this suicide-murder mission.
An armed group of criminals shot at a car carrying Brigadier General Ali Salem al-Ameri, Colonel Ahmed Ba Wazir, and Sergeant Saleh Salem Kwair, along with their guards, as it traveled through the al-Wadia’ area, reported sources from the Interior Ministry.
Brigadier General Ali Salem al-Ameri was the General Security Manager of the Wadi and Desert regions in Hadramout, and Colonel Ahmed Ba Wazir was the Sayun Security Branch Manager as well as the Manager of Sayun’s Criminal Investigation Department.
The car collided into a truck driving the opposite way and caught on fire, added the source from the Interior Ministry. The incident led to the deaths of Brigadier al-Ameri, Colonel Ba Wazir, Sergeant Saleh Salem Kwair, and their two guards.
The perpetrators escaped in their own car and a Hilux pickup, which they stole from the Health Ministry in Sayun.
