Chief of Staffs Helicopter Attacked [Archives:2000/37/Front Page]

Tribal sources from Serwah tribe told the Yemen Times in a telephone conversation that a helicopter carrying Brigadier Ali Salah, Chief of Staff, was a target of tribesmen fires while flying over the area after the attempt to blast an oil pumping station causing it to make an emergency landing near a military camp last Monday. The same sources added that another military aircraft provocatively flew over their land threatening that they would take revenge.
The sources added that mounting tension was still dominating in the area between Serwah tribes and Mechanized Brigade 25 stationed in the neighborhood.
Tribesmen said that the governments procrastination in regard to compensating them for damage to their properties during last June would escalate to more violence.

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