Somalia's Shebaab Jihadists. says will send fighters to YemenADEN, TAIZ, HODEIDA, Jan. 02 (Saba) - Yemen is tightening security at its coasts in the south and west to thwart possible infiltration of militants of the Somalia-based Young Mejuhideen Movement ( Harakat Al Shabaab) which announced on Friday readiness to send militants to support their brothers in Yemen. Now vessels and boats are being searched well by the Coastguard and more troops are being carried out. On Friday night, the Somali movement said it was ready to send militants to support Al-Qaeda members in Yemen amid crackdown on them by the government supported by regional and international allies.In recent weeks counterterrorism troops raided several Al-Qaeda hideouts and training sites killing and arresting scores terrorist suspects. The group said its militants will cross the sea and fight on the side of the terrorists in Yemen against the enemy of Allah. Meanwhile, Yemen has criticized the statements, saying those exporting terror into it should have contributed to establishing peace in their war-torn state.
'Yemen never accepts terrorists and Jihadist militants on its soil and it can deal with the existence of any of them,' Foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said.
In recent months, weapons were seized with a number of African infiltrators who crossed sea into Yemen. Authorities also said that dozens of Africans, most of whom were Somalis, were arrested fighting the army in support of the Houthi insurgents in the far north.
All this comes amid a persistent influx of Africans into the country, arriving almost in daily numbers, laying more burdens on Yemen's fragile economy and posing threats to national and regional security.FR http://www.sabanews.net/en/news202099.htm
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