At least six people were killed and 16 others wounded Friday (August 3rd) when a hand grenade thrown by a motorcyclist on Tahrir Street in central Taiz exploded, according to security authorities in Taiz province, north of Sanaa.
Yemen's official news agency Saba quoted a security official in the province as saying that a fight broke out between the motorcyclist and a seller, prompting the motorcyclist to throw the bomb.
The source said the motorcyclist and seller are among the dead. Security agencies are still investigating the circumstances of accident.
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محمد محسن
2012-8-7
Al-Qaeda in Yemen controls the country and its political arena after deposing the former regime. It is the most influential player on the arena and the news of the terrorist groups of Al-Qaeda, which control the southern areas and the other regions, became the headlines in the newscasts worldwide. All the world newspapers and magazines speak about these groups that target the cities, particularly those who are near the areas that fall under the control of Al-Qaeda. The terrorist movements in Yemen cause serious problems not only to Yemen but also to the neighboring states and the Arab world. I do not exaggerate if I said that they would also pose a threat to the world and its interests in the Middle East. Every day, we hear in the newscasts and read in the newspapers and magazines about these terrorist organizations and their crimes against the Yemeni people. Every day, we hear about tens of the victims who fell over here and there whether among the peaceful and armless civilians. The Yemeni people resisted terrorism and its people become united from south to north, so how a trivial group like this would weaken the determination of the resistant Yemeni people as to the liberation of their home from the terrorism and enemies of Islam.
محمد رضا
2012-8-6
Al-Qaeda is currently in charge and in control in Yemen, especially after the events of the revolution and the splits within the Yemeni army, and Al-Qaeda is now making the headlines in all the news reports across the world, and also the terrorist movements in Yemen now represent a grave threat, as everyday we hear in the news and we read in the newspapers about the activities of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, and we hear about dozens of citizens being killed.
مثنى فاضل
2012-8-6
The Yemeni people are among the poor nations that are powerless, and they get their power from God the Exalted and the Most High. Al-Qaeda gained control over Yemen and launched its attacks and exploited the shortcomings of the Yemeni army in terms of the divisions within it and the poor presence of the security forces in Yemen. After the Yemeni revolution, Al-Qaeda found a very great opportunity to succeed and create confusion in Yemen and tighten its control over the people and the lives of the Yemenis were being subjected to premeditated murder according to their whims. But their time has come, and they will be driven out of Yemen, and they will no longer have any power in the country. Spreading fear and the terrorist activities that they engage in against the citizens will end by Allah’s will, and Yemen will return to its previous condition, and the whole world will see this happen in the near future.
نوري طوسي
2012-8-6
Al-Qaeda in Yemen is committing many crimes against the citizens and this has marred their lives, and many of them have perished. These movements that are present in Yemen pose many dangers to the civilians, and they could cause their lives to become so unstable that it would be impossible to live there, and they have made many families homeless and stolen their homes and all their possessions without them being able to resist.
فاطمة
2012-8-6
For the fraternal Yemen to achieve escape of the gravity of what happened from the brutal and extremist crimes, and the stupid unending shedding of the blood by the terrorist organizations particularly Al-Qaeda, which wherever it comes to any land, it would kill everything that has a life that their eyes have seen, and all of that has been justified under the name of Islam. This is, in itself, the greatest crime to associate this offence with Islam, and the races and ethnicities are repudiating this. There will be no dignified life that could be established on the land of the great Yemen only after the departure of this brutal regulation. Ever since it touched this great land, everything in it died of delight, joy and beauty as if they cannot meet, and the continued presence of Al-Qaeda on the land of Yemen means the continuation of the bloodshed. It also means the destruction in all areas and means a continuation of slow death of this great nation, as well as that there are no means of salvation that Yemen can go through. However, the Arabs have no value and dignity if they do not help each other in the most extreme and severest conditions like these conditions that Yemen is experiencing now of the injustice practiced on its people by Al-Qaeda. It is the duty of all the Arabic Forces in the permanent confrontation in order to defeat terrorism on the territory of Yemen permanently.