An explosive device struck a military vehicle carrying troops belonging to the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) force today in Yemen, killing at least 6 and wounding 11.
The attack was immediately blamed on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and took place in south Yemen’s Abyan Province. AQAP has long had a presence in Abyan and had effective control over the province for much of the Arab Spring.
The STC is backed by the United Arab Emirates and has designs on southern secession from Yemen. While not formally part of the Saudi-backed “recognized government,” it also decidedly opposes the Shi’ite Houthi movement in the north.
Since splitting from the government, the STC has de facto control over much of southern Yemen. The group’s operations are aimed at retaining control over the region, and at times resisting both AQAP and the pro-Saudi forces.
Ironically, though AQAP and the STC are at odds with one another, the United Arab Emirates made considerable efforts to recruit AQAP’s former members into the STC as experienced fighters.
The STC has been courted by pro-Saudi forces, who offered them a spot on the Presidential Leadership Council. While the STC isn’t totally aligned with the Saudis, this gesture has tempered the amount of fighting among them.
The United Arab Emirates backed the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, hoping to install the Saudis at the expense of the Houthis. Emirati interests in the country have since evolved into backing secessionism, hoping to ensure substantial influence in a post-war South Yemen, assuming it reasserts itself as an independent entity.
Not Israel related.
Absolutely no one cares
Or involving the USA.
Terrorists attacks are a way of life in that region. Of course somehow it is all Israel and the USA fault.
Houthi media says al-Shami “pointed out that the Americans used to train their individuals in Yemen and send them abroad to carry out operations for them, and then affix the accusation to Yemen as an excuse to come under the cover of fighting those individuals.”
I’ve been saying this for a long time,” al-Ahmed told me. “People that think that these organizations; al-Qaeda, ISIS, are organic, non-state-backed organizations are either lying or are completely stupid. The fact that ISIS had all these American weapons, they didn’t come from thin air. This was part of a plan. The same thing with al-Qaeda; the fact that this organization which has been attacked all over the world continues to survive 20 years on, and spread, it’s not by accident. It’s done by security and intelligence organizations in Washington, D.C. and …https://realalexrubi.substack.com/p/leaked-cia-pressured-yemen-to-release