Yemeni official: Saudis left Syria and Iraq have joined al-Qaeda in Yemen

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Yemeni official: Saudis left Syria and Iraq have joined al-Qaeda in Yemen

03/14/2014 10:58

Yemen Nation - Agencies

Yemeni security official said that dozens of senior Saudi Islamic militants left the battlefields in Iraq and Syria and moved to Yemen, where contributed their expertise on what appears in a series of deadly attacks to al-Qaeda.

And raises the flow monitor, which in the last few months concern the troubled Yemen where it is believed that several hundreds of Saudi militants fighting alongside the already Yemeni al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

It was the first major group of Saudi militants fled to Yemen after Saudi engaged to a violent campaign of the base between 2003 and 2006 and helped in the formation of these extremists of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula with their fellow Yemenis in 2009.

A Yemeni security official, who asked not to be named, "the Saudi who comes here now fighters gained experience of the war in Iraq or Syria and is ready to" certification "They

"Know how to make weapons and bombs and teach others."

The flow of foreign fighters to Syria to join the fighting Islamist opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the last two years.

Iraq has also attracted former jihadists from around the world are eager to fight U.S. forces and the Shi'ite-led authorities came to power after the U.S. invasion in 2003.

Yemen also became an arena for jihad attacks targeting U.S. drone base since the leaders of more than ten years.

The achievement of the Yemeni government that most of the perpetrators of the attack on a hospital affiliated to the Ministry of Defence in the capital Sanaa on the fifth of December, they were Saudis. The attack killed at least 52 people and appeared to be caused embarrassment even to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which blamed the dissident fighters and paramedics in the killing of defenseless patients at the hospital.

The killings sparked taken closed-circuit television broadcast pictures of her and the state media rage in Yemen after the attacks were the American drone may have given al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula some sympathy.

The security official said some Saudi militants who came to Yemen from Syria appear before the court after he had been arrested and that some of the Saudis involved in the attack, hospital fought in Iraq.

He said Abdul Razak, a Yemeni journalist Jamal conducted interviews with members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the organization that mimics the group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the methods and choice of targets.

He added that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula used to carry out operations put explosive devices on the side of the road, but has now begun to break into the facilities.

Although the security official says dozens of Saudis have moved from Iraq to Syria and Yemen, however, is difficult to determine their numbers.

Yemen had said on February 11 that he had handed Saudi Arabia 29 of its citizens because they wanted al-Qaeda fighters. There is no information about the date on which it arrived to Yemen.

The diplomatic source said that the Gulf more than a dozen Saudis "influential" joined al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen after being fought in Syria.

But Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry said he believed it was unlikely that Saudi militants, many moving from Iraq to Syria or Yemen, because the two countries were still the main squares of the Jihad.

He said that "a few hundred" of Saudi militants who had moved to Yemen in the past and that the ministry had no information about any Saudi probably traveled from Syria to Yemen recently, without passing through Saudi Arabia.