Armies of Liberation

Convicted in the US last November and sentenced this week:

A U.S. judge on Wednesday handed down 65-year prison sentences to two founders of a U.S. Islamic charity convicted of illegally supporting Palestinian group Hamas, in a major U.S.-based terrorism financing case…Abu Baker, whose brother Jamal Issa is the head of Hamas operations in Yemen, was Holy Land’s chief executive officer and the first to be sentenced

Interesting bit about the Yafee tribes and the Ja’ar campaign if only to reinforce the idea of the impact of tribal lines on jihaddists relations with the regime , also he says terrorism in Yemen cooked up in the kitchen (but everyone says that from the terrorists to the politicians), and he had an ordinary relationship with bin Laden, all from an interview with al Fadhli at Ashaq Alawsat:

Q: What happened to you in the Abyan province, and specifically in the town of Ja’ar, gunmen took to the city and then the military campaign to recover .. ما هي إبعاده؟ What are deported?

ـ هذه مسرحية هزيلة مدبرة من جهازي الأمن القومي والأمن السياسي، معروفة، ولو تحب نتكلم عن تفاصيلها يمكن ذلك في وقت آخر. Play this poorly planned from the two national security and political security, known, if you like talking about details that could be at another time.

* ممكن تحدثني جزئيا الآن؟ * Possible in part told me now?

ـ قلت لك إن هذه مسرحية من الأجهزة الأمنية، ومنطقة جعار هي منطقة تتكون من قبائل يافع وقبائل آل فضل وهم (الأجهزة) يريدون أن يزجوا بالقبائل في صراعات قبلية، كما يحدث في مناطق أخرى من مناطق الجنوب بدعم الأجهزة كي يقتتل أبناء الجنوب فيما بينهم. I told you that the drama of the security agencies, and the Ja’ar region is composed of tribes, the tribes of Al-Yafi preferred they (devices) want Izjawa tribes in tribal conflicts, as in other areas of the south in order to incite the support devices of the South with them. وهذا ما حدث في جعار ومن قاموا بتلك الأعمال معروفون ومعروفة المناطق التي يأتون منها، ونعرف أيضا من يتستر عليهم أو يطلق سراحهم عندما يتم إلقاء القبض عليهم. This is what happened in Ja’ar have such work is known and well-known areas in which they come, and we also know of the covers or released when they are arrested. (Read on …)

Including credit for time served… The same court and same judge sentenced al Khaiwani to six years for a demoralizing article, but these planning murder get sentences of 2 1/2 and 3 years. The judicial bias against anything to do with Sa’ada, and in favor of al Qaeda, is dramatic.

Musseik Cell members sentenced to three years imprisonment SANA’A, May 04 (Saba) – Sana’a Primary Specialized Court issued Monday two years and half to three years imprisonment sentences to four persons who are convicted of forming armed gang called Musseik Cell to carry out criminal acts and targeting tourists. (Read on …)

After accusing Hezbollah of supporting the Houthis, Saleh makes nice. Also the Wafa Idris “library of maryterdom” opened in Ibb.

SABA
SANA’A, April 21 (Saba) – President Ali Abdullah Saleh received here on Tuesday a letter from Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.

The letter handed over by Dean of Arab prisoners in Israeli jails Samir Qintar dealt with a number of issues and current developments in the region as well as topics of Arab nation’s concern. (Read on …)

Just one of the many targets though…

Bloomberg

April 20 (Bloomberg) — Yemen is in danger of losing what’s left of its Jewish community, which has called the country home for more than 2,500 years and provided its kings for a century.

Growing intimidation and violence are pushing the 300 Jews left in the Arabian Peninsula country to flee to Israel or the U.S. Four months ago, a Muslim extremist gunned down Jewish- studies teacher Moshe Yaish Nahari, a father of nine, in the town of Raida, north of the capital of Sana’a. (Read on …)

No surprise there but this is an odd little story.

Ynet Report: Hizbullah deceived its activists in Egypt:

Sources involved in investigation against members of Shiite group arrested in Egypt tell Arab newspaper terror cell’s leaders misled activists into believing they would be working for Fatah’s military wing

The leaders of the Hizbullah cell seized in Egypt recruited activists by misleading them into believing that they would be working for the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Fatah’s military wing, the London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Monday, quoting sources involved in the Cairo investigation.

The sources told the paper that the leaders of the Hizbullah organization in Egypt told the activists they were being recruited by the Palestinian group in order to ease their mobilization.

According to the sources, the organization members also used a worker at the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s embassy in Yemen. (Read on …)

In another statement, they say Jamaat al Jihad is the remnants of al Nabi’s AAIA. Another references al Hitat and Afghan Arabs. Shabwa press

he governor of Abyan Ahmed Almisri The preliminary investigation conducted by the security services with those arrested in the city of Ja’ar revealed links to al-Qaida and some of them involved in terrorist acts. (Read on …)

Govt paper www.mayonews.net

May News – The governor of Abyan (South Yemen), Ahmed Ahmed Almisri that preliminary investigations with the subversive elements that have been arrested during the crackdown Almoktefp cells are the last of the invited Khalid Abdul Nabi and call themselves the jihadist groups are engaged in acts of sabotage and terrorist criminal threats to social peace of the province said. (Read on …)

On March 28, Yemen launched a major security operation to regain control of Ja’ar in the governorate of Abyan. Yemeni authorities announced Monday that 45 of 56 wanted militants have been arrested during the operation.

Commanded by Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, hundreds of Central Security police were supported by troops from the 312th Military Brigade. Security forces deployed helicopters, tanks and armored personnel carriers. Several police were injured in the clashes which have locked down the city for a week under heavy fighting. The militants are well armed, some with experience in Iraq, and coordinated defensive tactics, including snipers.

The fighting in Ja’ar is ongoing. A large explosion in Khanfar was heard Monday followed by prolonged gunfire.

The operation is targeting militants outside the scope of the Yemeni government’s truce agreements signed with the jihadists in January. In recent months, fundamentalists attacked government facilities and summarily executed citizens including suspected homosexuals, “wine drinkers,” and a woman. Homes were leafleted with warnings against “immoral behavior”. (See LWJ report, A city falls to jihadists).

Four terrorists are reported to have been killed, including jihadist commander Mohammed Hussain al Atif. More than 300 terrorists in are estimated to be in Ja’ar. Authorities said Monday that they had captured “Haliman”, one of the militants who stormed a police station in Khafar, Abyan last month. It is unclear if jihadists Alaa al Hulba, and bin al Sha’ir were among the arrested.

Abyan is home to numerous groupings of jihadists with cross cutting affiliation by tribe, ideology, and relation to the state and external terror organizations. Tribes in the region include the Fadhli and the upper and lower Yafae tribes. The current campaign is directed at a Jama’at al Jihad (the Jihad Group) splinter group which had targeted government installations. As a result of the campaign, government facilities closed by militants have begun to re-open.

The siege of Ja’ar followed a January meeting between Yemen’s President and several jihadist factions that culminated in the release of 108 prisoners (See LWJ report, Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda).

Some militants are fighting on the side of the state. The weekly Al Tajamo noted, “Those who pretended to give up on the work of jihad and acts of violence during the recent years were seen carrying weapons and fighting alongside government forces… (including) Mujahideen affiliated to the security and military leadership in Sana’a, including those who had received the money and jobs paid in February and early March in the wake of the meeting of the President of the Republic Ali Abdullah Saleh.”

Hassaan Dayyan, representative of the Jama’at Al Jihad, said the group met with Defense Minister Ahmed before the assault began and provided information on wanted members. Nadir Al Shaddadi said Jama’at al Jihad planned another meeting the defense minister and the governor of Abyan to “reaffirm our commitment to the agreement with the State” and discuss the state’s obligations to the group. Members of Jama’at al Jihad were among the militants released from prison in January and promised payments.

Ja’ar offensive may be part of wider campaign in the south

The military buildup extended to Hadramout and included stationing two additional Central Security brigades in Sayoun. Dozens of tanks were shipped by sea to Mukallah’s Khalf Harbour.

The assault comes in the midst of increasing tensions in South Yemen. Civil unrest has wracked the southern governorates since 2007 (See LWJ report, Security forces blanket Aden). Dozens of protesters have been killed by security forces and over a thousand protesters arrested.

The southern opposition is factionalized in structure but unified in its viewpoint and goals. The southern opposition defines the unified Yemeni state as illegitimate as well as illegal under international law. Southerners reference the non-implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions 924 and 931 that governed the end of the civil war.

Widespread popular grievances center on institutionalized regional discrimination in the years that followed the 1994 civil war. Many southerners consider themselves “occupied” by northern forces and see the wealth of the south as “looted” by Saleh’s regime. The goal of the southern opposition is a shift in the unipolar balance of power within the state. The remedy advocated by various opposition leaders range from a confederation to independence. The concept of an internationally supervised referendum on the issue of unity or independence has broad support.

-Jane

Article Translation from the mailbag

The relationship between the Yemeni regime and the international terrorism

Since the beginning of the current year 2006, the media circulates respectively news on the frantic activities of the terrorist groups in Yemen. Observers will find that these activities are directly and actively mixed with the state and with the head of the system .

Late February of this year news carried the incident of (escape) of 23 figures and activists from al-Qaeda organization from the (prison) of the Political Security in Sana’a in a silly and senselessness play, after they dug a tunnel under the land from (prison) to the courtyard of one of the mosques nearby of whom using the eating tools such as spoons, dishes etc. News were published by Saba News Agency and by the Conference Net which is belong to the ruling party and by September Net; the close site to the Presidential Office.

At the end of February 2006 the president; the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh made a statement to the Hayah newspaper (the Life) indicated that there is (possibly) collusion. He added that there are dialogues and contacts with the fugitives to return to prison, (note dear reader that the Yemeni president refuses to conduct a dialogue with the Southerners from the Reform Movement who struggle to bring the Unification to its right course).This and earlier incidents of significant activities of terrorist groups prompts us to try -without experts claim in the religious groups or terrorists issues- to know the relationship between the political regime led by the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh and these groups. Hence we can note a number of important observations in this context: -

There is a correlation between the Yemeni political system, and its top, the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh, who came to the power in 1978 and the religious groups, which their activities are characterized in accusing the society at infidelity, violence and terrorism against adversaries to local and foreign as well. They were not known at the whole Yemeni arena that these activities did not become known and did not have the role that we come to mention some of it later, before Saleh seized the governance in the Arab Republic of Yemen, and did not have a presence in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen previously as well.

But the presence of the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh on the power enabled these groups to establish their solid material base and to secure the environment for knowledge, which enabled the dissemination of the ideas of these religious groups across the country (Arab Republic of Yemen) before the unity through establishing thousands of religious schools and institutions, which amounted with more than 4,000 religious schools with their curricula and special training programmes that are not subject to the ministry of education according to the current prime minister; Mr Abdulkader Bagammal in his statement Thanks to the huge support and care given by the system, their followers spread in the South after the unity.

Thanks to the support, nourish and protection of the president, Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh in the presence of these groups, it is also a fact that these extremist religious groups has been very generous to his rules in giving intellect, blood, men and the lives of their young people who scarified for the regime of the president Saleh in the Central Region at early 80s of last century when they launched what they considered a holy war against the communism. They also contributed generously in the war of their government against the scientist diligent clergyman Hussein Badr Eddin Alhouthi in Sa’dah Governorate by direct participation with a large number of their members in that war also in supporting the regime in legal opinions (Fatwa) that accused the adversaries with infidelity. They always ready to provide fighter men to defend the interests of the system of Saleh wherever is required.

This fateful interdependence between extremist religious groups and the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime was translated strongly in the war that was launched by the regime against the South in 1994.It was known worldwide how big the role was contributed by those militant groups. They have been recruited for that war and summoned hastily from Afghanistan to contribute to the war on Southerners during the summer of 1994. That was found later through interviews of some of their leaders recently published in local newspapers and in the Arab press and other widespread newspapers such Ashsharq Alawsat (the Middle East) and Alhayah newspaper (the life).

It is known that Yemen has facilitated and sponsored in a wide scale other terrorist groups, which have emerged during the previous years in Chechnya. Despite the fact that Yemen tried to deny its relationship with what is happening on the territory of the Russian Federation, however during the visits of the Yemeni president to Moscow 2003 the Russian president Putin has brought forward some of the personal documents and identities before Saleh and made his complain from Yemeni terrorism in Chechnya,.

As it was published by the international media, including the American that arms of Yemeni government were found among the weapons that were used in the attack against the American consulate in Jeddah in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Newspapers and other mass media touch in stories of the wide flow of arms shipments to Somali factions, which they are fighting each other in that country, which has been ravaged by the civil wars. News has quoted the presence of a number of Somalis scholars affiliated to extremist religious groups study in Yemeni religious institutes.

The activity of the Yemeni regime in supporting groups of global terrorism has arrived in Chechnya and Somalia, at the same time the countries of the Arabian Peninsula have experienced a great deal of the Yemeni terrorists activity .
Late February 2006, Ashsharq Alawsat newspaper (the Middle East) has disclosed some information about the arrest of terrorist groups with relation to Yemen., I think the reader still remembers the failed terrorist attack on Saudi oil refinery in Abqiq, then Saudi newspapers published in on the relationship with the source of terrorist groups from Yemen in a clear allusion to the fact that one of the terrorism’s leaders was running criminal acts inside (prison) in Yemen.

Until recently, President Ali Abdullah Saleh was talking frequently about his partnership with the USA in its war against global terrorism, trying to delude everyone about his relevance his rules with the terrorism. President Saleh has achieved much success in doing so and was masterful in misleading a while the whole world, including the Americans that he is a real partner in the war against terrorism and therefore who has nothing to do with terrorist organisations, at the local level, regional or global level.

With the increasingly numbers of Yemenis involved in terrorist acts in Iraq the situation began to be more complicated and hard to be believed. How comes that Yemen is declared that it is a partner in fighting against terrorism in ally with the United States of America, at the same time it allows the flow of those terrorists to Iraq. An investigation was initiated and led to significant facts, which took the observers in surprise. The facts stated that an integrated system stands behind this extensive work including the operations of persuasion and recruitment, training and insuring documents and the provision of money, etc…

The investigators reached to serious and terrifying facts as well. It is for the first time facts, events and documents demonstrate that the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime is closely linked to terrorism both locally and on Arabic level. The tragic has reached its top with the fact that the regime has a link with the destructive terrorist operations which was carried out by suicide bombers at Dhahab tourist resort in Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. That attack has called the Egyptian government to send urgently the head of the intelligence; Major General Omar Suleiman to Yemen. He was received by the Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the head of the Political Security Apparatus Major General Ghaleb Al-Qamesh, the head of the National Security Ammar Mohammed Abdullah Saleh and by the director of the office of the president Mr Ali Alanesi, according to the news broadcasted by the Yemeni satellite channel yesterday 27th April 2006.

In a very impudence declaration, the system called a number of domestic terrorism activists who carried out a campaign of systematic terror during the early 1990s against the cadres of the Yemeni Socialist Party in Sana’a. On 29th April 2006 the Yemeni media declared that the presidential guidance instructs to release a number of leaders of the Islamic Aden Abyan Army. The organisation was established after the war in 1994 and its followers carried out a massacre of Australians tourists in Abyan governorate in Yemen in late 1998. Also it is well known about the relationship of this organisation with a number of high influential leaders of the Yemeni regime.

All those activities and actions taken by the president Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh and his regime declare to the world openly and without any equivocation or disguise that the Yemeni system is sponsoring enshrining the terrorism. He provides it with protection and secures proliferation. At the same time these connections between the Yemeni regime and terrorism reveal the nature of the regime and its danger to the security and stability of the peoples of the region and the world at large. The system warmly embraces the forces of terrorism and provides with protection and security to be deployed and to reach Chechnya and Sinai to cause the devastation and destruction in Iraq and Egypt Also he already made every country in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf under the threat of terror.

The Yemeni regime has no hesitation and will not refrain from disseminating these groups in the countries of the civilized world in Europe and America to carry out killings and destruction and disseminating terror among the population. Such acts will find a religious cover and the turban of the (Dailami) who will not withhold from legal opinions when necessary as provided similar opinions during the declaration of the war on the South and Southerners, also when perfidy hands fired in assassination of the martyr Jarallah Omar and the killing of the doctors in Jebla city in Yemen. He is also expert in launching legal opinions (fatwas) feeding the propitiatory and obscurant forces of terrorism in Iraq.

He also has been generous in issuing his legal propitiatory opinions (fatawi) against cleric and scholar man Alhouthi and against the followers of the Shiite doctrine. It should be mentioned here that the movement of Yemeni terrorism to Europe and America is a matter of time only. As according to the information that was published and announced previously by the local press and on the electronic sites such as News Yemen, that the Yemeni system has announced to form an organization under the responsibility of the official government security apparatus dealing with what it is called (plucking up courage through external support) and working actively amidst Yemeni communities abroad. In my opinion the terrorist groups has already started to put its plan on practice and I belief that the aim of this organisation is not only to terrify the opposition abroad by also to use the government terrorism (state terrorism).It is clear that this organisation will be used as an official and formal cover for spreading terrorist activities whom will be led and managed by symbols from Al-Qaeda’s leadership and other terrorist organization. With no doubt this terrorists will be ordered out and used effectively by various means and under many different names, whenever the need arises.

After this brief narrative we come to a compendium that the president; the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned to the square one of his political coalition. He has built a militarily foundation sincere to the tribe and allied with the forces of obscurantism. These are the main forces, which rule the Yemen Arab Republic’s system and justify its existence. The story of the alliance between Saleh’ regime and the terrorists started early when the terrorist religious factions supported the system’s war in the Central Region in Yemen Arab Republic, then they moved together to the formation of militant groups and to the recruitment of the volunteers’ batches to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Further more moved to the establishment and deployment of more than 4,000 religious schools according to the statement of the Yemeni Prime Minister Abdulkader Bagammal.

The regime expends funds of billions of Riyals on this branched network; supports the activities of Al-Imaan University(Faith University), the university, which has received donation from the president Saleh with amount of 1 billion Riyals.The university is headed by the Sheikh Abdul-Mageed Alzendani who is formally accused by the United States of America of terrorism and supporting terrorism. All these evidences are really proved that the president really has returned to his first square and to his origins and beliefs. It is a clear evidence that any pretending of supporting democracy, human rights, women’s rights or fair elections or any similar terms that were imposed by the necessities of the present era; the era of science and technology, technical revolution and satellites, is only way to keep up with new variables and to avoid collision with them. It is also to maintain the major material and technical base of the rule (the political system) which is fully belonging to the tribal and military coalition and allied with the religious terrorism and its obscurantist and expiatory forces. These forces are foster-parent to the Saleh’s regime and we have to comprehend that the regime well takes care of them, and to ensure the environment for their proliferation in all corners of the earth whenever possible. That is the rule, what else is the exception.

Ambassador: Ahmed Abdullah Al-Hasani

If this article is only 25% true its very scary. This al-Hasani is the former head of Yemen’s navy who defected to England and stated that al-Qaeda sympathizers are in high level positions in Yemen’s security forces and that Saleh knew in advance about the Cole bombing.

What is this saying, the AAIA (which doesnt exist according to the govt) thinks the govt put a hit out on Nabi? He has been talking a lot, in the last interview with Asharq Al-Awasat he denied there were training camps in Abyan, he said there may be some in other locations, which he named. Nabi is the same guy the Yemeni govt reported to the US as dead several times in 2003 before finally admitting they pardoned him and let him go.

Sanaa, Asharq Al-Awsat- A source from the outlawed Yemeni Aden Abyan Islamic Army has stated that the group’s leader, Sheikh Khalid Abdul Nabi was the target of an assassination attempt. The source, which refused to be identified, told Asharq Al Awsat that a plot was revealed to assassinate Abdul Nabi at the hands of an armed group in Jaar, a province in Abyan Governorate, south Yemen.

The source asserted that several participants of numerous assassination plans for the Islamic Army leader were identified and admitted their involvement. However, a security source denied this information and stressed that President Ali Abdullah Saleh had pardoned Abdul Nabi.

The source accused a person called “W.H.” of trying to recruit several Aden Abyan Army members to carry out the operation, and added that the defendant has links with the security services and tried to deceive cadres in the army “but they discovered his lies.” It added that the information obtained from “some youths” included the monitoring of Khalid Abdul Nabi’s movements between his house, the mosque in which he prays, and his farm and pointed out that the aforementioned person “was infiltrated to penetrate the youth’s ranks, in an outwardly religious way but covertly for security reasons.” It denied that the person who tried to assassinate Abdul -Nabi was an Aden Army member and said, “This person has no connection to the Aden Abyan Army. We want to know whether these actions are personal ones from the directorate or if they come from a higher authority.”

On its part, a security source in Abyan Governorate strongly denied this information. The official who refused to be identified told Asharq Al Awsat, “The Aden Abyan Army does not exist. Khalid Abdul Nabi had given himself up in the past, President Saleh pardoned him and he is now living as an ordinary citizen and has a farm.” He added, “Abdul Nabi has disagreements with a farmer and he complains about some people and some people complain about him.” He also denied that there are detainees from a group called ‘Monotheism and Jihad’ in Abyan and stressed, “If there are detainees, then they are held because of disagreements amongst them about land etc and not in connection with other cases.”

The Iraqis are talking about current support of terrorists. He is leading and financing terrorist operations in Northern Iraq, causing death and destruction.

BAGHDAD, Nov. 17 (Xinhuanet) — Iraqi Attorney General Chathanfar Hmod Al-Jasim presented Interpol with an extradition request to bring Saddam Hussein’s nephew from Yemen back to Baghdad to standtrial for “committing acts of terror,” the US military said in a statement on Thursday.

Omar Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan Al-Tikriti, the son of Saddam Hussein’s half brother, has been sought by Iraqi officials for his leading role and financial support to “terrorist organizations”,the military said in a statement.

Omar, 35, “focused much of his financial support and leadership on terrorist activities throughout northern and central Iraq,including Mosul,” the statement said.

“His efforts resulted in many deaths, injuries and destruction of property,” it added.

Omar’s father, Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan Al-Tikriti, former director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, is a waiting trial for committing crimes against humanity. Enditem

Many of Iraq’s upper generals who fled Iraq as the regime fell were recruited by the Yemeni military. (That’s like recruiting French generals, what’s the point?)

Lets put this together with the published report a few months ago by an anonymous official of “subersive” (al-Qaeda) elements in Yemen’s military and security forces that have established training camps for the Baathists.

Also recall the top Zaidi scholar said that the Iraqi generals in the Yemeni military urged Saleh to slaughter the Shiites like Saddam, at the same time as the reports of targeting civilians in Saada began to emerge and Sistani called it a jihad. Do we remember all this: dragging the burnt bodies behind the military vehicles, trashing the libraries, arresting doctors who were caring for the wounded, mass arrests without trial of whole villages including young boys. Currently the region is still closed of to everyone, and the jails are still filled.

Wasn’t there just a highly publicized trial of some Iraqi “terrorists” (that were in jail for two years) who were said to be in possessionof some handgranades. There was less publicity when they were acquited by a judge who said there wasnt a shred of evidence against the four teachers who insisted all along they were tortured into confessions.

But Saddam’s Nephew, son of the Iraqi Chief of Intelligence, is running terrorist operatations out of Yemen where there’s military checkpoints every ten feet, and Saleh doesn’t know and there’s no support for al-Tikritis operations from the Yemeni military, our important Partners in the WOT with whom we do mil-to-mil. Either Saleh is completely incompetant or he’s knowingly permitting big terrorists to operate from Yemen. My guess is both.

More from ADNKI: Last month, one of Omar’s brothers, Yassir Sabawi Ibrahim, was captured in Baghdad, accused of being one of the main financiers for the insurgency activities. Following his arrest, the Iraqi interior minister Bayan Jabr said Yassir had told interrogators he had been receiving money from someone “from the family of Saddam” living in “other Arab countries” to deliver to insurgents in Iraq.