More on the Abyan Airstrike: killed “al Qaeda” chewed qat with officials and were on state payroll
An Islah MP gave an interview to al Sahwa following the delay in the parliamentary session meant to discuss the airstrike in Abyan that killed dozens of civilians. Abdul Karim Shiban said that the “al Qaeda” killed in the strike were released from a PSO prison two years earlier. Since then, they moved back and forth from Shabwa to Abyan openly and freely. It was known by the security forces who would have been able to capture them easily. In fact, the men used to chew khat with security officials and received an allowance from the state.
al Sahwa Those targeted in the strike were closely linked to power
The deputy Abdul Karim Shiban – Member of the House of Representatives – accused the Presidency of the Council seeking to pre-empt my blow wheel door and lawlessness which was scheduled to be discussed today.
He said in a commentary for the “Sahwa net” It was clear on Saturday that the reports of the show and will delay the pilgrimage, by delaying the meeting until 12 o’clock noon despite the presence of only a quarter of Representatives since ten o’clock in the morning.
“We have not determined a later date to discuss the reports that the scandal in which moral and political shows to what extent and reached the country, through the reports show that the accelerated blow that killed 41 innocent civilians from the result of cooperation between U.S. security Yemeni.”
He said: “The fact that the State whenever they felt doomed to fall as a result of wrong policies and corruption are looking at her for a peg to suspend its mistakes, including expedited wanted to blow through a message to the outside of that we will fight Al Qaeda and we are better for you than anybody else.”The Shiban that local authorities and parents made a pilgrimage County certificates expose already been accelerated in a strike, and when they wanted to those targeted in this strike were two years ago in the political security prison has been their release without any trial and were before the strike move freely between Abyan and Shabwa The freeing and within the sight and hearing of all security agencies and it was easy to capture them, especially since the region close to the general line and not a hard one.
The witnesses stated that the wanted men were digging a water well, pointing out that targeted were “abusing khat with officials and in return receive a transportation allowance, and they were living in flagrant spinning.”
He added that a strike intended to satisfy the accelerated abroad, noting: “The strike has shown that there is a breach of the rule of Yemen, and that the strike was not known by the random Abyan governor only after 48 hours of their occurrence.”
