Al-Jihad organization vows accountability of Yemen terrorist attack

Al-Tawheed battalions affiliated to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization announced accountability of launching the terrorist attack that targeted the central security camp and security complex in Sayoun city in Hadramout governorate in the south east of Yemen  at the early hours of last Friday.

News Yemen website stated it received a statement issued by the al-Tawheed battalions claiming they have launched the terrorist attack to announce their rejection for the carnivals and festivals, threatening they would launch another attack in Sana'a if the Sana'a Summer tourist festival would not be cancelled.

The statement released on Saturday expressed  rejection for such festivals which the statement said have been spoiling Yemeni female kids through involving them in singing and dancing activities and mixing them with males.
The statement added that this operation came within the frame of defending Islam.

The death toll of the terrorist attack has risen to five persons killed and 15 others injured. Two of the critically injured were rushed to Sana'a on Saturday. The Yemeni security authorities believed the attacker was killed in the blast and that the attack was launched by a suicide car bomb.

According to News Yemen website the persons from al-Jihad organization that sent the statement have also demanded US$ five millions to stop launching similar attacks.

Some analysts when read the statement and the demands dismissed that al-Qaeda or al-Jihad organizations were behind the attack or was the one that sent the statement.

The analysts stated that al-Qaeda never asks for ransoms or money and that it has been always focusing on the political oratory rather than such art and tourism festivals.

In a related issue some security sources revealed that a truck loaded with explosives was detained in al-Alam area located in the road linking between Abyan and Aden governorates while trying to get to Aden city yesterday.

In response to the threat for cancelling the activities of Sana'a Summer  Tourism Festival, Fathia Hameedaldeen principal of al-Nizari girls school in the capital Sana'a said her school girls have been contributing in the festival, displaying 25 folkloric female dresses  representing all the 22 governorates of Yemen. "We strongly condemn such threats that we believe were issued by people who have been trying to curb any development or tourism campaigns that aim at boosting tourism and improving the economic situations in the country, "said Hameedaldeen. However she said she and her school girls don’t care about such threats and would continue displaying their folkloric dresses according to the festival's schedule.

"I don’t believe that Islam prohibits 10 years old girls to display dresses or show their faces publicly," she added.  She affirmed that all the participating girls were chosen carefully making sure their ages are young. "We know our religion and our traditions well so we have never and would never ever violate our religion or tradition rules," said Hameedaldeen.

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