基地组织攻击也门监狱 释放300名囚犯
Yemen’s virulent al-Qaeda militants stormed a prison in the southeast of the country on Thursday, freeing as many as 300 prisoners, including senior members of the extremist group in a further sign of the nation’s rapid disintegration.
Militants attempted to consolidate control over the city of Mukalla on Thursday night, meeting little resistance from security forces.
周四晚，这些武装分子努力加强对穆卡拉市(Mukalla)的控制，基本上没有遇到安全部队的抵抗。“Big explosions rocked the city from 1am to 4pm and the militants were seen looting the central bank and allowing people to loot the prison, the governor’s office and the radio station,” a resident of the port city said.
“从凌晨1点至下午4点，巨大的爆炸声震动了穆卡拉市，人们看到武装分子在打劫中央银行，还允许人们抢劫监狱、行长办公室和电台，”这座港口城市的一位居民说。
“The army failed to send reinforcements as militants set up checkpoints at the city’s entrances, ambushing any army vehicle. They killed many soldiers.”
“武装分子在城市各入口处设立了检查站，伏击任何军队车辆，导致军方无法派出增援力量。他们杀死了许多士兵。”Gunfire and explosions could be heard into the night, residents said, as the militants spread out across the city. “There is panic and people are frightened,” he added. “There is no army.”
据当地居民表示，当天夜里可以听到枪声和爆炸声，整座城市到处都是武装分子。他补充说：“城里一片恐慌，人们都吓坏了。军队没有出现。”It is believed that Khaled Batarfi, who until 2011 led a provincial branch of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap), the Yemeni arm of the extremist movement, was among those freed during the raid, a government official said. Mukalla residents place the number of people freed at 200-300, many of them Aqap members.
一位政府官员表示，据信哈里德•巴塔菲(Khaled Batarfi)在此次袭击中逃狱。直到2011年巴塔菲都领导着阿拉伯半岛基地组织(AQAP)的一个地方分支。AQAP是基地组织在也门的分支。穆卡拉居民估计逃狱人数在200到300之间，逃狱者中许多人都是AQAP成员。“There was a complete absence of security and army,” the official says of the assault on the city.
这名官员描述穆卡拉受到的这次袭击称：“完全看不到安全部队和军队的身影。”
