Arab Spring… Al-Qaeda Takes Over Government Offices and Declares Yemeni City Capital of Its Islamic Emirate

Pro Al-Qaeda protesters shout slogans as they march in the southern Yemeni town of Radfan on December 19, 2009. (CSM)

A few months ago Yemen was a pro-American regime.
Now Al-Qaeda has its capital there.

Armed al-Qaeda fighters took over all key government headquarters in Zinjubar, the Abyan capital, on Friday.
Xinhuanet reported:

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.

Maybe Obama will send them US aid?

#1 May 28, 2011 at 3:53 pm
workingclass artist commented:

Good Grief!
#2 May 28, 2011 at 3:54 pm
gus commented:

No problem. Opie has Rodham. He’ll fix this right up.
#3 May 28, 2011 at 3:59 pm
jainphx commented:

And the plan moves on toward completion, and we have this regime to thank. When the big bombs start to go off, remember who we thank. Israel now has to go it alone taking out Iran’s nuclear installations, but my money is on them.
#4 May 28, 2011 at 4:10 pm
squeaky commented:

meanwhile just bubbling beneath the surface that sunni/shia thing….not quite the fanfare of the gaza flotilla.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iranian-ships-carrying-aid-to-bahrain-turned-back-in-persian-gulf/2011/05/16/AFho954G_story.html
#5 May 28, 2011 at 4:15 pm
ahem commented:

Wait until you see the entire middle east consolidated in a few years. And our kids will have to fight these guys in order to preserve their freedom.
#6 May 28, 2011 at 4:27 pm
workingclass artist commented:

#5

Any student of the crusades can see exactly that….It will be grim indeed
#7 May 28, 2011 at 4:45 pm
american patriot commented:

As to Europe, the El Inglés solution is looking more and more on point since Muslims are going to continue to act as Muslims,

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/04/surrender-genocide-or-what.html

His current series on Muslims in Europe,

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/05/our-muslim-troubles-lessons-from.html

This is a five part series.
#8 May 28, 2011 at 4:47 pm
american patriot commented:

Europe’s “settling” its Muslim problems is not going to be pretty.

Reading these articles requires a realistic grasp of what must be done. These articles are not for panty-waisted liberals who canNOT be counted on to do the hard work.
#9 May 28, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Big L commented:

how does that go…’preserve,protect and defend…’? lets give em money….
#10 May 28, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Reaganite Republican commented:

This so-called Arab Spring is mostly BAD NEWS

Most of it won’t go how we want it, and a couple of the countries
will be complete debacles for Obama’s rudderless and ball-less foreign ‘policy’
#11 May 28, 2011 at 5:11 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

get ready for billions in foreign for yemen.
#12 May 28, 2011 at 5:14 pm
jainphx commented:

I’m starting to think that Jimma Carter was a mastermind at foreign policy compared to this piece of work. Jimmy may go down in history as head and shoulders above this turd. Jimmy will be ninth and Obama tenth while everyone else will be tied for first.
#13 May 28, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Mr. Potato Head commented:

Funny, no mention from watchdog media.
#14 May 28, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Guest #7 commented:

Take it easy people. The moderate Muslims are on the way to take power back from them, should happen any day now…
#15 May 28, 2011 at 5:41 pm
StrangernFiction commented:

Ah yes, the Arab Spring.
#16 May 28, 2011 at 6:22 pm
rbosque commented:

A nice well-placed nuke could take care of it. We’re at war with these roaches.
#17 May 29, 2011 at 6:34 am
Badnewzbearz commented:

From Global Research:

“On Wednesday, the US State Department ordered that all “non-essential” US diplomats and family members are to leave Yemen immediately. It also issued a warning to Americans to abstain from travelling to Yemen.

It all happened in the wake of a fierce three-day clash between tribal fighters and government forces. Reports say that up to 72 people died during the fighting.

Yemen is just another stage of the so-called “Arab Spring” that has already toppled governments in a number of Arabic countries and forced NATO to launch a war against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

But the situation in Yemen, in a way, is specific.

What is common with all the other cases is the fact that the national leader President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been in the topmost position for several decades (33 years, to be precise).

What is common with some of the cases is the fact that he, seeing the miserable examples of Egypt and Tunisia, stands firm in his desire to hold on to power.

What is different, though, is the nature of the opposition.

In most previous cases, the opposition was (or, pretended to be) democratic. In Yemen, the opposition is comprised of tribal leaders who do not even conceal their radical Islamist nature.

It is also worth noting that in the previous several years, it was Yemen that turned into the real base for Al Qaeda after the fighting in Afghanistan drew some of it out of that country. “Yemeni Al Qaeda” [Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] has become the most dreaded branch of the international terrorist network.

While fighting in Yemen escalates, President Saleh stays firm in his defiance of all demands that he should step down.

A plan has been devised by the Gulf Co-operation Council calling on him to step down within a month and hand over power to a unity government. The plan also guarantees him immunity from prosecution.

On Wednesday, after talks with British Premier David Cameron, the US President Barack Obama also called on Saleh to step down immediately.”

So Obama is demanding that the Yemeni President Saleh, a former ally, step down – which would most certainly give the entire country over to al-Qaeda. DOES NOBODY BUT CONSERVATIVES WHO ARE PAYING ATTENTION SEE WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?!!