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May 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Some of those at the scene said he was a member of the Central Security Force,
a paramilitary group whose chief of staff is Yahya Saleh, nephew of the
former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who stepped down earlier this year in
the face of Arab Spring protests.
However, military uniforms are easily available in the city and it is possible
he was an infiltrator.
Witnesses said the explosion left clothes, blood and body parts strewn across
the parade ground, which also serves as one of the capitals major road
arteries. Several severed heads lolled in the dust.
“There are no words to describe this,” said Ahmed, a military cadet,
looking at the blood-strewn aftermath of the explosion. “Those behind
this are not even human.”
The bombing appeared to be a failed assassination attempt against Maj Gen
Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, the minister of defence, who arrived at the heavily
secured city square to greet the assembled troops just minutes before the
blast.
By Monday evening, the official death toll was put at 96, with up to 300
injured.
Until now, Sana’a has been relatively calm, if tense, since the end of the
fierce factional fighting of much of the past year which eventually led to
the end of Mr Saleh’s 33-year rule.
But while his internationally-backed retirement in favour of his deputy, Abdo
Rabbu Mansour Hadi, ostensibly solved the country’s political crisis,
Monday’s attack underlined the fragility of the capital’s shattered peace.
In response, Mr Hadi sacked two generals loyal to Mr Saleh, including another
of his nephews, Ammar, who was director of national security.
The attack comes amid a renewed government offensive against Ansar al-Sharia,
a militant group that took advantage of Yemen’s growing power vacuum to
seize control of swathes of territory in the country’s southern Abyan
province.
It is being heavily supported by intelligence and air support from the United
States, which sees Yemen as a new front line in the war against al-Qaeda.
Several failed terrorist attacks on its territory, including those of the
so-called “underpants bombers”, originated with AQAP.
In 2010, the British ambassador and deputy ambassador also both survived
terrorist attacks in Sana’a.
Abdulghani al-Iryani, a Yemeni political analyst, said: “Rather than
being a show of strength, today’s senseless attack is a sign that al-Qaeda
and Ansar al-Sharia, if they are indeed responsible, are increasingly
feeling as if they are in a weak position.”
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