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Yemen: Saleh-Allied Troops Destroyed Oil Pipeline
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzYemen’s current regime says that a colonel and four other officers were behind the attacks, and are pushing for them to tried in a military tribunal for the destruction. It is the latest in a number of accusations of military sabotage by Saleh loyalists, and by far the most financially destructive, as the pipeline has virtually shut down Aden’s oil refinery for a year.
Saleh finally stepped down from power in November, and was replaced in a single candidate election by US-backed Major General Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Since then his primary goal has been to purge key Saleh relatives and loyalists from power.