基地組織攻擊葉門監獄 釋放300名囚犯
Yemen’s virulent al-Qaeda militants stormed a prison in the southeast of the country on Thursday, freeing as many as 300 prisoners, including senior members of the extremist group in a further sign of the nation’s rapid disintegration.
Militants attempted to consolidate control over the city of Mukalla on Thursday night, meeting little resistance from security forces.
週四晚，這些武裝分子努力加強對穆卡拉市(Mukalla)的控制，基本上沒有遇到安全部隊的抵抗。“Big explosions rocked the city from 1am to 4pm and the militants were seen looting the central bank and allowing people to loot the prison, the governor’s office and the radio station,” a resident of the port city said.
“從凌晨1點至下午4點，巨大的爆炸聲震動了穆卡拉市，人們看到武裝分子在打劫中央銀行，還允許人們搶劫監獄、行長辦公室和電臺，”這座港口城市的一位居民說。
“The army failed to send reinforcements as militants set up checkpoints at the city’s entrances, ambushing any army vehicle. They killed many soldiers.”
“武裝分子在城市各入口處設立了檢查站，伏擊任何軍隊車輛，導致軍方無法派出增援力量。他們殺死了許多士兵。”Gunfire and explosions could be heard into the night, residents said, as the militants spread out across the city. “There is panic and people are frightened,” he added. “There is no army.”
據當地居民表示，當天夜裡可以聽到槍聲和爆炸聲，整座城市到處都是武裝分子。他補充說：“城裡一片恐慌，人們都嚇壞了。軍隊沒有出現。”It is believed that Khaled Batarfi, who until 2011 led a provincial branch of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap), the Yemeni arm of the extremist movement, was among those freed during the raid, a government official said. Mukalla residents place the number of people freed at 200-300, many of them Aqap members.
一位政府官員表示，據信哈里德•巴塔菲(Khaled Batarfi)在此次襲擊中逃獄。直到2011年巴塔菲都領導著阿拉伯半島基地組織(AQAP)的一個地方分支。AQAP是基地組織在葉門的分支。穆卡拉居民估計逃獄人數在200到300之間，逃獄者中許多人都是AQAP成員。“There was a complete absence of security and army,” the official says of the assault on the city.
這名官員描述穆卡拉受到的這次襲擊稱：“完全看不到安全部隊和軍隊的身影。”
