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| Extremism in Yemen; bloodshed in the transition | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sun Dec 8, 2013 1:43 am (140 Views) | |
| Flipzi | Sun Dec 8, 2013 1:43 am Post #1 |
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Car bomb blasts Yemen's defense ministry, kills 7 Filipinos (Associated Press) | Updated December 6, 2013 - 12:36pm A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car at Yemen's Defense Ministry killing at least 18 and wounding several more. VIDEO http://www.philstar.com/news-videos/2013/12/06/1264906/watch-car-bomb-blasts-yemens-defense-ministry-kills-7-filipinos Video 2: Car Bomb Blasts Yemen's Defense Ministry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBLa9i4r-N8 |
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| Flipzi | Sun Dec 8, 2013 11:01 pm Post #2 |
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![]() Yemen: Saudi militants behind bombing attack (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 8, 2013 - 12:00am ADEN, Yemen – Saudi militants were behind the massive car bombing and assault on Yemen’s military headquarters that killed more than 50 people, including Filipinos, investigators said in a preliminary report released Friday. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was retaliation for US drone strikes that have killed dozens of the terror network’s leaders. The attack – the deadliest in Sanaa since May 2012 – marked an escalation in the terror network’s battle to undermine the US-allied government and destabilize the impoverished Arab nation despite the drone strikes and a series of US-backed military offensive against it. US forces also have been training and arming Yemeni special forces, and exchanging intelligence with the central government. Military investigators described a two-stage operation, saying heavily armed militants wearing army uniforms first blew up a car packed with 500 kilograms of explosives near an entrance gate, then split into groups that swept through a military hospital and a laboratory, shooting at soldiers, doctors, nurses, doctors and patients. Officials earlier said 11 militants were killed, including the suicide bomber who drove the car. It was not clear if the 12th attacker was captured or escaped. The investigative committee led by Yemen’s Chief of Staff Gen. Ahmed al-Ashwal, said militants shot the guards outside the gates of the military hospital, allowing the suicide bomber to drive the car inside, but a gunfight forced him to detonate his explosives before reaching his target. It said the 12 militants killed included Saudis. Two military officials said wounded soldiers had told them the assailants who stormed the hospital separated out the foreigners and shot everybody in the head. Other military officials said American security agents were helping with the investigations, but that could not be confirmed. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to brief reporters. Yemeni commandos and other security forces besieged the militants before they could reach the ministry’s main building, preventing them from going further than the ministry’s entrance gate. All the attackers were killed by 4:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the committee. Yemeni security forces launched a manhunt in the capital to find the perpetrators, sparking gunbattles that killed five suspected militants and a Yemeni commando, officials said. The committee, which sent its report to Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, did not explain how it came to its conclusions The report was read on state TV and a copy was obtained by AP. Hadi met Friday with the UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar to discuss the attack. He said that “a number of assailants have been arrested,” without elaborating. He added that the “criminals will not escape justice.” The report also raised the death toll to 56 and said more than 200 people were wounded. The foreigners killed included two aid workers from Germany, two doctors from Vietnam, two nurses from the Philippines and a nurse from India, according to Yemen’s Supreme Security Commission. But a spokesman for the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Raul Hernandez, said Friday that seven Filipinos were killed in the attack, including a doctor and nurses, while 11 others were wounded. The victims were among 40 Filipino workers in the hospital. Hernandez said the Philippines’ honorary consul reported that the others survived by pretending to be dead. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the conflicting accounts. But officials from the military hospital said Friday that at least 10 foreigners had been killed. Germany’s foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer also announced Friday that German employees of aid groups doing work on behalf of the German government have been ordered to leave Yemen “as quickly as possible” and “until further notice.” Schafer also said the German embassy will continue to operate with reduced staff and “corresponding security measures.” Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as the group is known, is the product of a merger by the group’s Yemeni and Saudi branches after a crackdown in the powerful neighboring kingdom. Among its leaders is another Saudi, Ibrahim al-Asiri. The drone strikes and military offensives that began in June 2012 have driven militants from southern strongholds they had seized a year earlier, during Yemen’s political turmoil amid the Arab Spring. AQAP’s media arm, al-Mallahem, said on its Twitter account Friday that it had targeted the Defense Ministry building because it “accommodates drone control rooms and American experts.” It said security headquarters used by the Americans in their war are “legitimate targets.” The United States considers the Yemeni al-Qaeda branch to be the most active in the world and it has escalated drone attacks against the militants in Yemen, killing many militant leaders, including the group’s No. 2 figure Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi who died of wounds sustained in a strike in November 2012. Remains to arrive In Manila, officials said the remains of the seven Filipino medical workers killed in the car bomb attack in Yemen are expected to arrive home in the next few days. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) chief Carmelita Dimzon said the Philippine government is fast-tracking the repatriation of injured workers as well as the remains of the fatalities. “Our objective is to bring home the bodies of those who were killed as well as those who were injured at the soonest possible time,” Dimzon said in an interview. Dimzon said Philippine Ambassador Tago is already in Yemen coordinating the immediate repatriation of 29 fatalities and injured Filipinos. Aside from the seven who were killed in the bomb attack, Dimzon said, 22 other Filipino workers were injured in the incident. “Of the 22 injured Filipinos, 11 are already in safe condition while the others suffered serious injuries,” Dimzon said. According to Dimzon, the government is withholding the identities of the casualties and injured until their next of kin are notified. “Our personnel are already locating their families including those who are in staying in Bataan, Cavite and Pangasinan. Probably this weekend we will be able to notify all the concerned families and we already release their identities,” Dimzon said. One of the 29 victims, Dimzon said, has no records with the agency and is possibly an undocumented worker. She said the Department of Labor and Employment would only suspend the deployment of Filipino workers to Yemen on the advice of the DFA. Rethink policy For an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the latest terror attack should prompt the Aquino administration to rethink its policy on sending Filipino workers to countries where their safety might be compromised. CBCP-Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (ECMI) executive secretary Fr. Edwin Corros believes that OFWs should be barred from working in countries with serious peace and order problems. “It is not only in Yemen that we should ban the deployment of OFWs but in all countries where they are not secure and protected,” he said. He admitted that preventing Filipinos from finding work abroad is easier said than done. “Do you think the government has another option where to send our unemployed or those getting less in life in the Philippines?” He said it’s ultimately the OFWs who decide on where to find employment. He said Filipinos are generally undeterred by dangers in countries where they work. – AP, Mayen Jaymalin, Evelyn Macairan http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/12/08/1265551/yemen-saudi-militants-behind-bombing-attack |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:36 pm Post #3 |
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DFA initiates voluntary repatriation in Yemen To ensure the safety of Filipinos given the current security situation in Yemen, Department of Foreign Affairs on December 9 raised Crisis Alert Level 3 (voluntary repatriation) in that country. The announcement comes after a terrorist attack on the Yemeni Defense Ministry Complex killed 52 individuals, including seven Filipinos, last December 5. Eleven Filipinos were also injured during the incident. Crisis Alert Level 3 is raised when violent disturbances or external aggression occur in certain areas of a country. Filipinos in Yemen who wish to return to the Philippines will be repatriated at the Philippine Government’s expense. Under Crisis Alert Level 3, the Department of Labor and Employment automatically imposes a total ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers. Our citizens are also advised to defer travel to Yemen regardless of purpose. Click to read on govph: http://www.gov.ph/2013/12/10/dfa-initiates-voluntary-repatriation-in-yemen/ |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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