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Yemeni Security Official Killed in South

   VOA News 13 June 2010

   Yemeni  authorities said Sunday that an unidentified gunman has killed
   a  senior security official in the southern part of the country, where
   separatist tensions are mounting.
   A   provincial   official   said   Jalal  al-Uthmani,  a  high-ranking
   intelligence  officer,  was  killed late Saturday in a hail of gunfire
   outside his home in restive Abyan Province. Â
   Also  Saturday,  tribesmen  in  eastern Maarib Province blew up an oil
   pipeline in retaliation for raids targeting al-Qaida sympathizers.
   North  and  South  Yemen formally united in 1990 but many in the south
   say  the  northern-based  government  has  used  unification to funnel
   resources   out   of  their  territories,  while  denying  southerners
   political rights.
   Most  of Yemen's oil facilities are located in the south, which lost a
   brief  1994  civil  war that ended with the region overrun by northern
   troops.
   Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters.

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