Security seize many weapons after Tarim terrorist group

HADRAMOUT, Aug 13 (Saba) - The security forces in Hadramout province
have seized large quantities of weapons at the house where the
terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda was raided in the area of
Eded in the city of Tarim, provincial authority sources said.

The mouthpiece of Defense ministry September 26 quoted the sources
as saying these weapons included forty bags of explosive gunpowder,
TNT bombs as well as an equipped workshop to prepare
explosive-laden cars.


The security forces also found passports one of which is for Ahmed
Saeed al-Mashjari who carried out in the last month an attack
against a police compound in the province and the two others for two
Saudis named as Badah Bin Mughis Bin Badah al-Qahtani and Waleed Bin
Radhi Bin Samilil al-Utaibi.

Some diagrams to attack targets in the country and abroad were
found at the house, the source noted.

The Tarim group comprised of seven people five of which have been
killed and two arrested after they were wounded, is believed to be
behind all the recent attacks against foreign and government
interest in the country.

Two security soldiers were reported dead and other three injured on
Monday while chasing terrorist elements in Hadhramout governorate.
The hunt resulted in the killing of five terrorists and arrest of
two possessing many weapons and explosives.

Hadhramout governor Salem al-Khanbashi said to Saba that the
incident occurred in Tarim city while the security soldiers were
performing their tasks of chasing a wanted group of seven.

The security bodies were chasing the terrorist group whose
individuals were hidden in one of houses from which they exchanged
fire with security bodies resulted to the death of two solders and
three injured.