Strict measures after al-Shabaab vow

ADEN, 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