Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has been making gains in Yemen. Since the start of the Obama backed Popular Uprising, Al-Qaeda has seized territory and cities in Yemen. Now they have freed from jail, militants that were arrested by the Yemeni uprising. Many of those freed, fought the US in Iraq.
Dozens of militants, many of them suspected al Qaeda members, have escaped a Yemeni prison in what appeared to be a brazen, coordinated jailbreak today, according to reports.
One soldier was killed and at least one other wounded when militants outside the prison attacked it, presumably to create a distraction that provided 57 militants enough cover to escape through a tunnel, according to security officials cited in a report by The Associated Press. Altogether, 62 inmates made off in the confusion.
Reuters reported all of the prisoners were Yemeni and most had been jailed after returning from fighting in Iraq for the insurgents.
The Arab Spring continues!
Tags: Arab Sring, Popular Uprising, Yemen
