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so we're at a hospital in the capital of
Yemen right next to the ministry of
Defense where Al-Qaeda launched a huge
attack that actually went spectacularly
wrong
and killed civilians which is not
something al-Qaeda in Yemen had done
before the barely reported attack in the
capital city of Yemen was typical of
al-qaeda's current tactics just like the
attacks on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai and
the Westgate Mall in Nairobi a handful
of gunmen heavily armed and willing to
die wrough Havoc for almost two days but
in Yemen the tactic badly backfired
through the main gate yeah where it
started they came on foot first of all
they attacked the military police who
were here they were able to kill five
immediately because they came in
military uniforms so they were really
surprised when these people started
shooting at them and three of them were
killed here from the attackers three of
the attackers were killed here yes but
given what you know now you don't think
the hospital was the target it was the
ministry of Defense first assumption
everybody would think it's the ministry
but they did not go inside the ministry
although they could the horror which
they did in the hospital makes me really
believe the hospital was the the the
target dressed as Government Soldiers
the attackers walked around the hospital
casually killing at least 52 innocent
staff and patients and everybody knows
that's a hospital come on they saw
doctors and nurses in white and they saw
uh patients and they were killing
everybody inside it any door which was
open they went in and shot people these
are the guys who were here so these are
the soldiers that were killed killed
here if you kill the people here you
have control of the gate once they'
killed the security guards at the gate
the attackers drove a huge truck bomb
into the compound which housed the
ministry of Defense but also the
hospital this uh armored vehicle was
stationed here that's a pretty powerful
vehicle on that day this vehicle did not
start that's something maybe I'm not
supposed to say but I'll say it
anyway they start it every day and they
make a turn with it right yeah just to
make sure that day didn't start what you
think that's suspicious I I don't know
so once you've driven in through this
gate the only way to go is way straight
towards the hospital yes and the back of
it was full with TNT or whatever because
the car you can see it on the camera
footage the car was really heavy and it
was really down it stopped for like less
than a second not even a second it
exploded
all this went down all the whole roof
went down this is now reconstructed
already we was here with my colleague in
same room we hiding beside the scene
really we don't know what going on when
we go out everything was in fire
everything
destroy
horrible there was a big hole there you
see where the the the area turns black
it was like a meter and a half deep 2 m
and the width was the whole area but to
create a crater in this that was a a big
blast a big one driver One driver parts
of the brain of this terrorist were on
the roof of this building half of his
brain and his ears were found
CLE and he was inside this car no no no
this is his this is his
car so that was just completely blown to
bits 1/4 of this car flew over this
building yeah to the other side about
150 M there is still a foot there what's
this yeah yeah that's a foot
oh and usually after an attack Al-Qaeda
would put out a statement claiming
responsibility but this attack was
different they made a statement later on
which they said they take responsibility
and that they are sorry
there was a big mistake that one of
their guys like went
loose it seems very strange for Al-Qaeda
to apologize that's the first time I
think maybe uh because of the horrific
images the yemeni public some of them
maybe were um having some sympathy for
the their cause they lost
it and do you think they would have
apologized if there wouldn't have been
the CCTV
footage I was against showing that
footage at that night the the relatives
should have given time to come to peace
with what happened but it did force it
did it did help a
lot physically I don't eat as I used to
do I don't sleep as I used to
do uh I don't want to come to work but I
do come to
work uh I feel regret for the people
most of the staff here I would say 60 or
70% I chose them
personally and I feel sorry that maybe
it was a mistake that I chose them if I
didn't chose them maybe they will be
alive
today really there was a nice teamwork
here it's like a family thing it was
good we heard some fire outside in the
gate and then suddenly one one soldiers
came from us he received one gunot from
abdomen we put him in the bed after we
put him in the bed it suddenly explode
we become drown from the ground I saw
one guy wearing a uniform of the
soldiers when I asked him to for help he
suddenly aimed again to us and start one
fire this is the bathroom yeah and this
is the bathroom I am here and the shot
came from here and then the females run
inside and I go from here and they all
survived but no I just scroll and I put
myself inside from this um table and
he's standing just 2 or 3 feet me from
here just to search me where I run and
then I think he didn't s me from the
table so that he come back from the
bathroom and you knew your friends were
inside the bathroom yeah and he walked
in and he walked inside and started to
Fire and and the last shout for them I
said oh my
God one of the attackers who came in
here he tried to go into the operation
theater through this door he found a
locked door and two doctors opened this
door they wanted to know what's going on
here and he saw them so he shot one of
them killed him and followed the other
inside and inside the operation theater
he killed another
six Dr Aima was here telling him I'm a
surgeon what are you guys doing and he
just coldly just shot at her with his
machine gun and he killed four in this
room it's a bit dark I'm
sorry you can still some see some some
of the stains of blood you can still see
it but there is no light
yeah they were stuck here and one of the
guys who were talking to you downstairs
uh uh he hid here with another nurse who
they already left to Philippines the guy
we spoke to downstairs twice he was a
few feet away from the attack and he
survived he is very lucky yeah yeah
extremely
lucky if that day is your day you will
die I decide to stay just because of my
family but my wife and my child they
just before yesterday just they go to
Philippines so you decided to stay just
so you could keep on earning the
salary just for your family that is what
I can say and how has this affected you
personally every day I'm just wondering
looking for them I hope that they will
come back
but you mean you hope your colleagues
who were killed will come back so it's
still difficult to accept it it really
happened every day I'm just going to my
bed I'm just still looking in their face
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imaginations I I was here and the
patient was here Sarah from German and
uh his girlfriends as they started
shooting outside the the hospital uh
start our Windows come broken in one
second I told them come to the sitan
Rome because I know that Rome is more
protective there has been a problem with
al-Qaeda in Yemen for some time but did
you ever think it could could affect you
while you at work you cannot understand
why this hospital we treated all people
with treated soldiers we treated
everyone even from Ala when they have a
one patient we will treat him we are
doctors yeah uniquely they apologized
afterwards it's help not sorry you
killed
57 people and you destroy the life for a
a lot of our familian it's not easy to
say I'm sorry I will give you money or
something else I can be uh lost in my
life and I have some patient till now
they are really in shock and do you
think it's possible to fully recover I
mean as B I will cover it I think we are
I a doctor I go and I do what I have to
do and because you were able to save
some patients that I I want to save yes
they are my patient and I have to save
them I I thought about them more than
me so although this was a horrific
attack oh I'm I'm walking past the
bombers severed charred foot as I say
this there's some hope that it could be
a turning point because up until this
day Al-Qaeda had made it a policy not to
attack civilians in Yemen uh the fact
they did so indiscriminately meant that
even their supporters turned against
them so this could be the first attack
of its kind here but maybe it could also
be the last
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