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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A military official, who also declined to be identified, told AFP al-Qaeda
militants were responsible for the “surprise attack,” saying “it
was a massacre”.
Another doctor said hospital staff were overwhelmed by the number of
casualties.
“We were forced to use administrative offices and waiting rooms to treat
the wounded,” he said, declining to be named.
“The hospital was packed full with dead and injured” soldiers.
Military officials had reported fierce clashes on Sunday when suspected
al-Qaeda militants tried to overrun an army post in Kud, just south of
Zinjibar. The violence then spread to other military positions on the
outskirts of the city.
The militants, known in Yemen as the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), took
control of Zinjibar and several other towns in Yemen’s mostly lawless south
last May as former president Ali Abdullah Saleh faced mass protests
demanding his ouster.
The military official, who was on the ground during Sunday’s attack, said that
troops from the Kud base were “surprised” to see the militants
carrying army issue weapons and using military vehicles.
Soldiers who survived the attack accused some army leaders who had served
under Saleh of “collaborating” with al-Qaeda.
The violence highlights the security challenges facing Yemen’s new president
as he tries to restore order in troubled regions and unify the country’s
armed forces, as stipulated by a Gulf-brokered transition accord that ended
Saleh’s 33-year rule over Yemen.
On Friday, Hadi, who will lead Yemen for an interim two-year period, named
General Salem Ali Qatan to head the 31st Armoured Brigade in southern Yemen,
replacing Saleh loyalist General Mahdi Maqola.
The appointment was one of the first steps taken by Hadi as head of the newly
formed military commission in charge of restructuring the country’s divided
security forces.
Some of Yemen’s most powerful army units, including the Republican Guard
troops, are commanded by Saleh’s closest aides, including his son and nephew.
The 1st armoured brigade, a powerful unit commanded by General Ali Mohsen
al-Ahmar, last year joined the mass protests against Saleh’s regime that
erupted in January of 2011.
Hadi has not formally commented on the latest violence, but a military
commission statement said that “the nation, its people, and its armed
forces … are capable of overcoming the challenges imposed by”
al-Qaeda.
Yemeni political analyst Majed al-Mabjahi argued Monday that the suspected
al-Qaeda assault was “a show of force” by the extremist group.
“Given the new political environment, and the fear of impending attacks”
by the new government, al-Qaeda wants to demonstrate that any attempt to
destroy the group would “come at a high cost.”
In his February 25 inaugural speech, Hadi vowed to fight al-Qaeda and restore
security across his impoverished nation.
“It is a patriotic and religious duty to continue the battle against
al-Qaeda,” he said. “If we don’t restore security, the only
outcome will be chaos.”
Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a presidential
palace in southeast Yemen that killed 26 elite troops, on Hadi’s
inauguration day.
Source: AFP
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