Bomber killed more 90 military at parade rehearsal in Yemen

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More than 90 Yemeni soldiers died as a result of a suicide bombing at a rehearsal of a military parade on Al-Sabin Square in the capital, Sana'a.

According to correspondents, a man dressed in a soldier’s uniform blew himself up during a parade rehearsal that took place near the presidential palace.

A source in al-Qaeda told the BBC that the explosion was carried out by a member of this organization.

According to representatives of the Ministry of Defense of Yemen, as a result of a rally of suicide bomber 222 people were injured.

“We participated in the parade when an explosion suddenly erupted. Dozens of our soldiers were killed. We tried to help them,” said Col. Amin Alghabati in an interview with Reuters. “The bomber was dressed in military uniform. He hid the belt of a shahid under his clothes.”

Another witness to the incident, Ahmed Sobhi, told the Associated Press news agency: "It was a real slaughter. There were torn arms, legs, heads. This is monstrous."

Representatives of the Yemeni security services said that the explosion had arranged a soldier who participated in the preparations for the parade. He detonated an explosive device shortly before Yemeni Defense Minister Nasser Ahmed and the army chief of staff were to greet the military.

The military parade was to take place on Tuesday 22 in May, when it celebrates National Unity Day in Yemen in honor of the unification of the Marxist People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen with the Yemen Arab Republic in 1990.

War on al-Qaeda

The explosion at the parade rehearsal occurred 10 days after the start of a large-scale anti-terrorist operation in Yemen.

Only over the past weekend during the operation at least 33 of the al-Qaida militant and 19 of the Yemeni military personnel died.

Also on Sunday, unidentified people injured an American military instructor driving through the port of Hodeidah, located on the east coast of the Red Sea.

The Ansar Sharia group, which is a branch of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, claimed responsibility for the attack.

After leaving the post of President Abdullah Saleh, the new head of state - the former Vice-President Adb-Rabbu Mansur Hadi - said that one of the most important tasks of his government would be “continuing the war against al-Qaeda”.

He also promised to clear the armed forces of those directly connected with his predecessor Saleh.
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  1. Yarbay
    +4
    22 May 2012 12: 10
    Apparently now there * Al Qaeda * will break for fun!
    1. +2
      22 May 2012 12: 26
      Well, well, since everything is so bad there with democracy and so good resources.
      The main minerals and natural resources of Yemen: oil, fish, rock salt, marble, coal, gold, lead, nickel, copper, -
      By the way, the army is suitable there, a worthy rival for NATO (they only fight with such)
      The number of the Armed forces of Yemen: 66,30 thousand people. (2000)
    2. YARY
      0
      22 May 2012 17: 24
      Oh, yes, I beg you, there will be more at the premiere and this is a reptile! wassat
  2. Prophet Alyosha
    +4
    22 May 2012 12: 20
    Any state that, under pressure from Washington, embarked on the path of combating mythical "terrorism" will be plunged into the abyss of a bloody massacre. It should be understood that under the guise of "terrorism" is hidden the people's liberation struggle of the peoples of the planet against the Zion-Saxon expansion.
    1. Yoshkin Kot
      -1
      22 May 2012 12: 21
      Yeah, repeat more often, especially when applied to al-Qaeda killers
      1. +5
        22 May 2012 12: 26
        Quote: Yoshkin Cat
        al Qaeda killers

        Note the phrase "Al Qaeda source told BBC." Whose interests does this channel represent? And who raised and funded this movement?
        1. Igorboss16
          +2
          22 May 2012 13: 20
          one thing I know for sure everyone who is behind this is the most obvious bastards, so that their fate will overtake
  3. +3
    22 May 2012 12: 21
    Yarbay, Apparently now there * Al Qaeda * will break for fun! - or she them !!! wink After all, everyone knows whose office it is !!!! feel
    1. Yarbay
      +1
      22 May 2012 12: 59
      The fact of the matter was to force the new President to follow the rules of the game!
      I was there, the people are hot and they do not care about all sorts of Qaeda!
      Almost everyone considers himself the best fighter!
      Family and tribal values ​​are more important than much!
  4. borisst64
    +1
    22 May 2012 13: 43
    So many people need to be put not kilograms, but a centner of explosives. I doubt about the martyr’s belt.
    1. 0
      22 May 2012 16: 20
      Similar thoughts ... that something is not there ... this ... or instead of trotyl, something else ... all sorts of rumors are circulating ... plus ...
  5. Yarbay
    +1
    22 May 2012 13: 49
    ** Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Hadi promises to completely destroy the Yemeni al-Qaeda cell, which claimed responsibility for the explosion, which killed about 100 people in the capital of the Middle East on Monday, Agence France Presse reports.

    "The fight against terrorism will continue until it is completely eradicated, whatever the casualties," the president said in a statement released by the Yemeni news agency Saba. **
    What and ....
  6. +2
    22 May 2012 15: 15
    Suicide bombers are reptiles by definition, killing women and children not like men, but meanly not on the battlefield! Fucking fans !!!

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