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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Oct 9, 2014, 05:50 PM Oct 2014

Video: two blasts kill at least 67 in Yemen

Source: Al Arabiya

At least 67 people were killed in Yemen on Thursday when two suicide bombers, suspected to be members of al-Qaeda, blew themselves up on a group of Houthi rebels in the capital Sanaa and a military camp in Hadhramout south-east of the country.

The bombing that struck the Shiite Houthi rebels in the capital killed at least 47 and wounded dozens. The Houthis were congregating to stage a demonstration, according to sources close to the rebels.
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In eastern Yemen, where the militant group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has waged repeated attacks on army installations and government facilities in recent months, at least 20 soldiers were killed in a suicide car bombing and gun attack on an army outpost, state news agency SABA reported.

The attacks occurred just hours after a showdown between the Houthis and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour forced Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, whose appointment on Tuesday under a power-sharing deal signed last month had angered Houthi leaders, to turn down the post.

Read more: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/10/09/At-least-20-killed-in-suicide-bombing-in-Sanaa-.html

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who next? quadrature Oct 2014 #1
 

quadrature

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1. who next?
Thu Oct 9, 2014, 07:30 PM
Oct 2014

Libya...successfully destabilized
Syria... in progress
Egypt...mixed results
Yemen... just getting going

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S.Sudan, Nigeria, Mali, Gulf States
Afghanistan, Liberia, SierraLeone

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