Al-Qaeda planned to target new officials in Marib -Sources

SANA'A, June 13 (Saba) -
Informed security sources have revealed the names of new army and local government
officials
to be targeted by Al-Qaeda in Marib Province within a terrorist activity begun last
month. The sources said that Al-Qaeda had killed and assassinated over the last
three
years 37 army and local government officials of a targeted list of 40 officials.
Terrorists used different ways including ambushes and drawing to kill officials with
RPGs,
machine guns and explosive belts in desperate attempts in Marib, particularly in
those areas boarding neighboring Shabwa province and Saudi Arabia, they said. The
sources
have not ruled out Al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
announced last year when Yemeni and Saudi wings merged, had planned to flee to Saudi
Arabia
after devastating blows in the country. On the other hand, Marib Governor Naji
al-Zayedi said that the security forces had controlled all areas where terrorists
were hiding
and operating including those areas in the Abeeda region. Recent clashes with
terrorists were successful and tribal elders in province voiced their readiness to
cooperate
with the authorities to hunt terrorists and outlaws, he said. FR