Armies of Liberation

“The Council for southern peaceful movement” headed by Tareq Al-Fadhli issued a statement on the 25th of this month, the link is here . Al Fadhli was a long time ally of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and handled “the jihaddist file” for the state. In March, al Fadhli defected to the southern independence movement. He has been mum about al Qaeda to this point, and this is the first explicit rejection of the terror group by al Fadhli. Its important to recall the southern independence movement is highly fractured. Several leaderships and factions share the same goal of a reversal of 1990’s unity agreement, but have been unable to coordinate effectively or establish a regional representative mechanism or body. None of the other factions have any history with al Qaeda, beyond being their targets in 1994.

What’s interesting about this statement is that al Fadhli confirms to the United States that Al-Qaeda is the product of the Sanaa regime. He warns of a plot by the regime to frame the southern movement for AQAP. He says he rejects the terror group and their ideology and existence on the Southern lands. He asks all the southerners not to take this group lightly and to expel them from their territories.

My comments: Better late than never, but this is late. However, at least al Fadhli is in touch with reality. Yes, there are al Qaeda camps in the south. The question is the level of al Qaeda’s affiliation with the Sana’a regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not whether it exists. Southern opposition figurehead, former President al Beidh, keeps claiming there are no terror training camps or al Qaeda presence in the south at all, and that reduces his credibility. Many southerners believe the recent air strikes (which missed all the leaders despite the Yemeni government’s hype) are solely an intimidation tactic against the protesters or a propaganda tactic for the benefit of the US. Some of the targets were authentic al Qaeda camps, and the leaders bugged out before the missiles struck.

Google translation follows:

Statement by the peaceful movement South on the recent strike by the Sanaa regime and Al Qaida

Political Press / December 25, 2009

Statement by the peaceful movement South (surcharge) on the recent strike by the Sanaa regime and Al Qaida

In the name of God the Merciful In the name of God the Merciful

And yet: we are today and we pass through this painful period of our nation’s history, South targeted by the assailant (the Arab Republic of Yemen) to assure the whole world as we had previously that our cause is just and peaceful do not go out in the fairness of international norms and violate them at all and point out that the situation created by War (94) on the children of the South – after entering in a unit that was one-sided as the south – has made unfair by the accumulation of the Sanaa regime against the people of the south was the exclusion of the most important places of South and replacing all the unit codes strongly that the victor then turned into a monster loot thief capabilities of the South is dominated by their wealth and lands strongly victor and the truth and fallacy of falsification and show each crime, theft and breach in justice and the law as alleged claims at every crime against the people of the south.

When it came to the conclusion reached today (which is that the people of the south out do not call them back to back; for now they are still in the back but their progress forward, demanding a peaceful disengagement with the aid of God’s will and enthusiasm of the people and justice of the cause and all the faithful in the world of our brothers and friends who love freedom and championed the oppressed, as happened in East and southern and western Sudan) began the Sanaa regime fraud and forgery to get to his objective at the expense of the south and the oppressed people of the south.

(Saw the whole world today is lined with the people of South peaceful epic struggle when he went to the streets to exercise their natural right to express their will through peaceful means guaranteed to them internationally and began to take the south area of information and widespread and clear regional and international), then arises the Sanaa regime, after repeatedly failing to trigger movement to violence through the killing of demonstrators, many times directly with live bullets and diabolical plan he put a cheap hit Al-Qaeda funded and that he has met with favor in the presidential palace previously agreed to stay with them in the land of the south not to say that the world has ignorance (diabolical plan), or ignorance of the Sanaa regime and cheap methods Traction mobility to the box, which is where he wants, but we admire and wonder how this incident occurred (the killing of civilians safe, rather than al-Qaeda), which signed the innocent people of accelerated and Mawan (Abyan) Accordingly, we affirm to the world once again as follows: –

First: the continuation of the southern movement until the peaceful nature of disengagement and the liberalization of the land south of the occupier and is not likely that any concessions to settle the issue and call upon the free world to stand with us and our cause.

Second: call mobility all his brothers and his friends abroad that the group of extremist and criminal system is the product of the Yemen Arab Republic and mobility refers to the fact that extremist groups are planted by the Sana’a regime to those in the south corner of the world after beating the illusion that the South qualified for such groups, whether arrived the south to the disengagement, and therefore call upon the world brothers and friends not to be dragged behind the counterfeiting of the Sana’a regime.

Third: We mobility mobility reject all those groups and reject the thought and reject the presence in the south and share the whole world and on the head United States to stand and cooperation against terrorist groups of any kind.

Fourth: We request the world to stand with the oppressed from the south and call the dispatch of a fact-finding as to whether the Sanaa regime, was killed as he claims (33) of al-Qaeda or killed (72) of innocent civilians.

Fifth: We assure the whole world, and the U.S. geared up America to the Sanaa regime is one of the sponsors terrorism and rears and is used and full of history, including evidence.

Sixth: We call all the sons of sons of the South-South honorable, especially some of the tribesmen not to be complacent with these extremist groups that reject Itrduha and places of their presence anywhere in the south to cooperate with the international community in combating terrorism and not to take advantage of the Sanaa regime such groups distorts the land of the south to the land clean south of extremism and terrorism, which lived from the first dawn of Islam is a peaceful and do not know this extremism only when it received from Sanaa.