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Subscribe to RSSSANAA, Yemen - A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people, mostly cadets, inside a police academy in Sanaa on Wednesday in an attack that bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda, police investigators told Reuters.
The investigators said dozens of others leaving the academy at the end of the day's training sessions were injured in the attack.
In a similar attack in May, a suicide bomber with explosives strapped under his uniform killed more than 90 at a military parade in the city – a massacre that alarmed Washington, which is deepening ties with the Middle-Eastern state.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal in Yemen's capital, killing more than 90 soldiers. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
The Associated Press reported the death toll in Wednesday’s attack as being “at least 10”, quoting a security official. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy in the two tolls.
'Massacre': At least 90 killed as bomber targets military parade rehearsal in Yemen
Yemen's government, weakened by an uprising that eventually toppled former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, has lost control over whole swathes of the country, allowing militants to overrun several towns in the southern province of Abyan.
The United States sees Yemen as a vital front in its global war on Islamic militants and is increasing its military support for the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
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al qaeda = Satan's soldiers. Not Allahs
one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
no hope for world peace so all of you miss america contestants please shut up.
Who you talking to punk?
CHIPSAMOY25: Freedom fighters as a rule do not make it a practice of targeting women and children. They target government officials and the military in the country they are fighting. If you consider child killers freedom fighters then the world you come from must be screwed up indeed. Around here we call them terrorists, period!
retired, they are fighting for their "freedom" to impose "gods law" on everyone else
You were in the military for 20 YEARS and retired as a Sergeant First Class? Wow...winning?
Al Qaeda=Muslims=deranged=vermin
and their masters Sunni Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab League members.
Terrorists enjoy blowing themselves up. We enjoy blowing them up, You'd think we would all get along better.
LOL!!
Recently seen Bumper Sticker" It is the goal of terrorists to meet God, the Marines job is to arrange the trip!."
I'll agree to that!
The virus known as islam reaches out though terror to spread its evil ideals. We must remember that those who commit these terrible acts are below even animals. Men do not kill the innocent or cover their faces to protect their identities. These acts are perpetrated on the unsuspecting, by cowards who are too afraid to face an enemy on a battlefield. Unfortunately for the rest of the civilized world, it is impossible to negotiate with rabid animals on a logical level.
Here Saudis are primarily responsible.
Followers of Islamic cult, especially Sunni Saudi inspired Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days of rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims.
These Islamic religious Nazis are killing Muslims also in Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and other places.
Muslim on Muslim violence where do I send the donation
wlee: By keeping us busy in Iraqi wars and saving themselves, Sunni Saudi, Kuwaiti, UAE other Sunni barbarians have manipulated oil prices quite high and many have become too rich.
We have become poorer.
So there is no need for donation.
Instead of these Sunni Islamic religious Nazis funding new Islamic extremist Salaffi, Wahhabi mosques all over the world, let them spend monies on their needy.
It will be in the interest of Shiites to battle for a separate nation in Yemen.
Once these al-Qaida Islamic religious Nazis take over there will be their genocides.
Look at Shiites conditions in Saudi Arabia. In SA, Pakistan and many other nations, Shiites are treated as infidels.
conversely, look at sunni conditions in iran...
Time for some "street" justice for these hoodlums..... make them pay big time by the police !!!!!
Oh the good old days, when third world countries had powerful dictators with powerful armies to control this bunch of loons. Who had the hair brained idea to lobby for democracy in these countries?
Bushes, oil companies and their lobbyists were imagining about democracy in these nations!
Was it really a suicide bomber or a drone strike?
Why don't these folks remember the previous attacks and sneak out the back door when the class is over? That's when the bombers always hit -- at the end of the day when everyone is standing around in a group discussing who has the best hashish, or which opium den they're all going to after dinner.
If a suicide bomber blows him/herself up and nobody gets hurt but themselves, are they considered a Dud?
Yeah, they get punished with 72 male virgins LOL
Wasn't this the country that started the "glorious" Arab spring that so many here praised and are still praising? (Like in Syria). Sometimes I wonder if this current staff in Washington are who they say they are. It all started with them in place.
Explosives are an Islamic sacrament. Just as the captured London subway bomber said, "We will win because we love death more than you love life. Muslims are fundamentally different from people who love life more that death. To try to interact with them by the same standards and rules we would use with civilized people is a serious mistake.