Islamic jihad resumes in Yemen

More than 30 killed as Islamic jihad resumes in Yemen, including tribal leader's assassination and numerous bombings

Ahmed Al-Hajj writes for the Associated Press Thursday, Jan. 10, that jihad fighting has begun again in northern Yemen, ending a six-month truce between the government and Shiite fighters.

Yemen is located on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, and has suffered through three years of Shiite insurgency: the jihad there has killed thousands in the three years previous to the cease fire brokered with the help of Qatar in June. The fighting mixed with Yemen's wider situation of poverty make for possible humanitarian hardships beyond the violence.

Government officials and rebels said Thursday the new bloodshed broke out last week, with Yemeni troops shelling villages in Saada province, a Shiite rebel stronghold, a local government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to journalists.

This is the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, but the Shiite rebels are not linked to his Sunni-dominated al-Qaeda network, whose members have also carried out attacks in Yemen.

The local official said fighting had escalated in the preceding 24 hours, with guerrillas staging dawn attacks on army camps nestled in the nearby Marran Mountains. Soldiers responded with artillery, helicopter and tank cannon, he said.

More than 30 people were killed, the official said.

An aide to rebel leader Abdel Malak al-Hawthi said at least 12 Shiites — a mix of rebels and civilians — had been killed. He also insisted on speaking anonymously. ...Rebels accuse Yemeni leaders of being corrupt and too close to the West. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih supports the U.S.-led war on extremist groups.

The Islamic extremism is reaching out again to Yemen with all the religious passion as before, but instead of programs gathering folks to teaching seminars or revivals [what we might assume because we are ignorant "kufar" infidels who take religion to be a spiritual journey]

No, the outreach in Yemen is done with bombs and bullets - because the religion of peace wants heaven on earth, and bloodshed is needed, according to Islamic clerics.

The rebellion began in June 2004, when cleric Hussein Badr Eddin al-Hawthi ordered his followers to challenge the government.

Ah, jihad, that deep and personal, internal journey of mind and spirit!

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