- Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:15 am
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Obama, Yemen was threatened by Shiite rebels when I came into office and today it's an example of what we should strive to achieve against all nations threatened by terrorists, a place where the American counterterrorism strategy that has been put in place that has succeeded in degrading the threat that those organizations pose to Yemen and the United States. Working hand in hand with President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi we've stabilized the area and the country is now a shining of example of what can be achieved if we work together. ”Five months later
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies fought their way through the commercial center of Aden on Thursday and seized the presidential palace on a strategic hilltop in this southern coastal city, security officials said. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi had fled Yemen last month during the fighting. Local officials in the port city of Mukalla said al-Qaeda militants had stormed prisons and freed at several hundred detainees.
Local Yemeni officials said that among those released in the prison break was a senior figure in the regional wing of al-Qaeda. Rresidents said they saw groups of fighters carrying rocket propelled grenades and accompanied by tanks and armored vehicles in the Khor Maksar district - part of a neck of land linking central Aden to the rest of the city.
Many people fled the area and some were trying to get on ships leaving the ports as chants of "death to Christians" filled the streets.
