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Al-Qaeda looks to set up safe havens in Yemen |
Al Quada is exploiting the poverty, conflict
and corruption in Yemen to set up safe havens in the country. "The threat level
from al-Qaeda is now critical," one diplomat said. Yemen, the homeland of Osama
bin Laden's father, has long been an al-Qaeda recruiting ground and foreign militants
are being brought to the country to attend its training camps. "It is very possible
al-Qaeda are bringing people from outside Yemen and then sending them back to
train others. We have seen this in Somalia, Palestine and Algeria and there is
also some co-ordination with Afghanistan. In other countries al-Qaeda is in the
decline - here, it is growing," The Times quoted Mohamed Haidar, of the Sheba
Institute for Strategic Studies in Sanaa, as saying. For the past two months,
fighter jets have roared over capital Sanaa to bomb al-Houthi militants who are
fighting against economic discrimination and want recognition of their status
as descendants of the Prophet. Tens of thousands have been been displaced by the
conflict, the report said. "Al-Qaeda has always looked to take over ungoverned
spaces and there are a number in Yemen - there is potential for a far wider problem
here," one diplomatic source was quoted, as saying. According to local journalists,
terrorists have bomb-making laboratories and libraries of extremist literature
in the country. They have safe houses in Sanaa where messages are spread on CDs
and digital memory sticks and jihadi videos are screened in homes, the report
said. |
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