适合跳扇子舞的音乐:Al-Qaeda declare setting up 'Islamic emirate'...

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Al-Qaeda declare setting up 'Islamic emirate'


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The Yemen-based al-Qaida wing on Saturday declared the provincial capital city of southern Abyan province as the capital city of its "Islamic Emirate" in a statement the group read in front of local residents.


The al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has almost taken over all parts of Abyan province after it seized the province capital city of Zinjibar on Friday, according to the residents.


A local government official told Xinhua that the "fighters of AQAP took over the whole city of Zinjibar on Friday and on Saturday the group seized 30 police cars after two police camps surrendered to AQAP."


"They (AQAP) transported the 30 police cars to the neighbor city of Jaar, which is believed to be the stronghold of the group, " he added, requesting anonymity.


Meanwhile, a doctor of al-Razi Hospital in Jaar told Xinhua that the death toll among al-Qaida militants from the Friday's clashes with government forces rose to four as dozens of the militants were still suffering serious injuries.


Residents from several cities of Abyan said blackouts have hit the majority part of the province since earlier Friday.


An aid to the Abyan governor said the governor was not available to reach for security reasons.


Late on Friday, the AQAP militants gunned down five Yemeni policemen, including a high-ranking officer, hours after they took over several government buildings and two state-run banks in Abyan, according to a local security official.


Since the eruption of the four-month-long anti-government protests aimed at ousting Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power since 1978, the AQAP has launched sporadic heavy attacks on Zinjibar.






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Armed Yemeni tribesmen opposed to President Saleh



Al-Qaeda fighters have taken control of a provincial capital in Southern Yemen, heightening fears that the country's political crisis is playing into the hands of the terrorist group.


The fighters were accused of pillaging the town, burning down buildings and launching violent reprisals that left corpses strewn across dusty streets.


Eyewitnesses claimed that by yesterday (SUN) the militants had taken the town largely unopposed after most government troops stationed there were withdrawn.


However, battles have been reported on the outskirts of the town as the fighters surrounded the headquarters of the 25th Mechanised Brigade.


Thousands of civilians fled the town, despite appeals broadcast through loudhailers urging residents to return to work.


"They burned down buildings and said they were going to establish an Islamic caliphate," one resident said. "People were very scared."


Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula has emerged as a powerful force since its leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi, Osama bin Laden's former secretary, escaped from prison in 2006 and rebuilt the group after it had been all but destroyed in a US predator drone strike in 2002.


It has since been involved in a number of attempted attacks on US soil, most notably an attempt by one of its recruits to bring down an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, 2009, with explosives secreted in his underpants.


The group has officially been classified as posing the single biggest threat to US homeland security.


Aides of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, under pressure to resign after months of street protests, yesterday sought to present the fall of Zinjibar as evidence of how al-Qaeda could emerge as a major force in Yemen if he was forced to step aside.


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Hundreds of Islamic militants cemented control over a town in southern Yemen on Sunday, even seizing army tanks, military officials said, while breakaway army units encouraged other military forces to switch their loyalties and join the uprising.


"Stand side by side with the courageous armed forces, Republican Guards and security officers who endorsed the peaceful popular youthful revolution and announced their support to stand up to the tyrants and corrupt, and unjust," he said.


Also, witnesses in the southern city of Taiz said security forces attacked protesters camped out in the central square with rifles and water cannon in an attempt to clear the area. Doctors said 150 people were taken to hospitals with injuries. In an earlier clash in Taiz, six protesters were killed, activists and doctors said.


Washington considers the group to be the biggest terrorist threat to the U.S. It has been linked to the December 2009 attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner and the plot to put U.S.-addressed parcel bombs onto air cargo flights.


Islamist militants also took over the nearby town of Jaar at the end of March, and there were similar accusations then that the government purposely stood aside.


The United States, which once considered Saleh a necessary ally in fighting Yemen's active al-Qaida branch, has turned its back on the ruler, calling for him to transfer power peacefully.