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| Yemen's Qaida Offers Gold Bounties for Huthi, Saleh |
| 2015-04-09 |
| [AnNahar] Al-Qaeda is offering a bounty of gold for the killing or capture of Yemen's ex-president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and Shiite rebel leader Abdulmalik al-Huthi, in a message posted online Wednesday. The Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP), classified by the United States as the network's deadliest franchise, said the two men were "heads of evil." "In support of the jihad of our Moslem brothers in Yemen," AQAP said it was offering a "reward of 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of gold to whoever kills or captures" Saleh or Huthi. It posted the pictures of both leaders, who belong to the Zaidi sect of Shiite Islam -- a minority in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... where almost 70 percent of the population is Sunni. The offer came as a Saudi-led coalition of nine Arab, mostly Sunni states, completed its second week of air strikes against Shiite Houthis and their allies, troops loyal to Saleh. Huthi is believed to be based in the northern Shiite stronghold of Saada. But the whereabouts of Saleh, three years after he resigned following an Arab Spring-inspired uprising, remain unknown. As fighting rages on the ground between rebels and forces of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, AQAP last week seized much of Hadramawt scenic provincial capital Mukalla in southeastern Yemen. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 All you have to do is present your evidence for the bounty, and then live long enough to spend it, infidel. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-04-09 08:17 |
| #1 Ah, the old 'lead bars spray painted with gold paint' trick... |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-04-09 00:20 |