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Al-Qaeda in Yemen offers 20kg gold for Houthi leader, ex-president

Rasa - A bounty of 20 kilograms of gold has been promised by Al-Qaeda for the capture or killing of the leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebels and his closest ally, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, SITE monitoring group said.

News ID: 2317

Date: 09 April 2015 - 19:57

RNA - Al-Qaeda has offered a bounty of 20 kg (44 lb) of gold for the capture or killing of the leader of Yemen's Houthi forces, the SITE monitoring group said Wednesday.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) announced the bounty in a video released through its media arm on Wednesday.

The Houthi revolutionary group, who took control of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in 2014 and are now on the offensive in the southern part of the country, are led by Abdel-Malek al-Houthi.

But Saudi Arabia according to former president Hadi which fled the country, launched airstrikes against Yemen more than two weeks ago, seeking to drive back the Houthi advance and restore ousted President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist movement's Yemeni wing, has exploited the conflict, storming the town of Mukalla last week and freeing a jailed local Al-Qaeda leader.

Suspected Al-Qaeda militants also attacked a remote eastern border post on the frontier with Saudi Arabia.

Houthis are part of Yemen's Shiite Muslim Zaydi, considered infidel by hardline Sunni Islamist movements such as Al-Qaeda.

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