Al-Qaeda Linked Militants Assassinate Gay Man In Yemen
by Will Kohler
Two
militants from the Al-Qaeda linked group Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen have
reportedly shot dead a Yemeni man in the southern Lahj province,
accusing him of being a homosexual, a police source said on Tuesday
according to the AFP .
The
attackers from the Ansar al-Sharia group, which is on the US terror
list, opened fire at 20-year-old Hashem al-Asmi late Monday in the
provincial capital of Huj, the source told AFP, adding that the gunmen
fled on their motorbike after killing Asmi.
The attackers who "accused the man of being gay... belong to Ansar al-Shariah," the source said on condition of anonymity.
Ansar
al-Sharia is the local branch of Al-Qaeda in Yemen where the network,
although weakened, is still active mainly in the southern and eastern
parts of the country.
Al-Qaeda
loyalists seized large swathes of Yemen's south and east in 2011
but Yemeni government troops have recaptured much of the territory with
support from US drone strikes, but jihadists still remain keeping bases
in the desert and carry out hit-and-run attacks
Ansar
al-Sharia militants had tired to impose a strict version of sharia
(Islamic law) on residents, executing citizens they accused of various
crimes. They had also severed the hands of many accused of burglary.
Horrible.
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