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Sun, Jun 17 2012 Saudi royals mourn the death of Crown Prince Sun, Jun 17 2012 Yemenis say al Qaeda gave town security, at a cost Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Yemen says Islamists retreat from southern town Sun, Jun 17 2012 Yemen army says seizes Qaeda bastion in major advance Fri, Jun 15 2012 Yemeni army advances on third rebel-held town Thu, Jun 14 2012 Yemen government says poised to seize third town from al Qaeda Wed, Jun 13 2012 Yemen army, in major victory, retakes two cities Tue, Jun 12 2012 Analysis & Opinion Top Mali Islamist rejects northern independence, wants sharia in whole country Nigeria church bombings kill 19, spark reprisal attacks on Muslims Related Topics World » Yemen » 1 of 3. Army soldiers ride a military truck at their base in Jaar city in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan June 15, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah By Khaled Abdallah and Mohammed Mukhashaf JAAR, Yemen | Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:06am EDT JAAR, Yemen (Reuters) - For 15 months, residents of the southern Yemeni town of Jaar lived under the watchful gaze of armed young men who swore allegiance to al Qaeda, woke people at dawn to pray, and chopped off the hands of thieves in the name of Islamic law. But the relief that they felt when government troops drove al Qaeda's local allies out last week was tempered with worry, as looters ransacked abandoned houses in their wake. In a town on the frontline of a U.S.-backed war on al Qaeda - whose alleged members the Pentagon targets with drone strikes - some wondered whether a state whose neglect was a main theme of Islamist rhetoric would now manage to govern. Although some of Jaar's 100,000 people saw Islamist rule as a nightmare, they acknowledged it had also been a respite from the lawlessness that gripped Yemen during the uprising that eventually forced President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. "People felt secure and safe (under al Qaeda)," said Mohammed Mohsen Bakr, a street vendor. "People would leave their shops open when they went to pray and when we came back our goods were untouched," he added. Bakr said before Islamist militants took over Jaar, vendors like himself were forced to make regular payments to local gangsters in order to carry on their businesses, and that shakedowns resumed the day the Islamists fled. Such crimes have been carried out regularly in other parts of southern Yemen, including its second city and port, Aden. Early in last year's uprising against Saleh, Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law) seized three cities in Abyan province, taking its provincial capital Zinjibar after Jaar, which they renamed "the emirate of Waqar". They also captured the port town of Shaqra and Azzan, a town in the adjacent Shabwa province. The Yemeni army, backed by U.S. air strikes, drove the militants from Jaar and Zinjibar last Tuesday after five weeks of fighting that killed hundreds on both sides, and captured their last Abyan stronghold on Friday. SECURITY AT A COST The offensive appeared to end the experiment with Islamist rule in Jaar, one of the areas Ansar al-Sharia seized with scarcely a fight from Saleh's troops, some of whom had been withdrawn to parts of the country where protests were growing. Inspired by Somali Islamist group al Shabaab across the Gulf of Aden, the militants set up sharia courts and trumpeted punishments given to robbers and murderers, to the satisfaction of some of the population in a conservative Muslim country. "Al Qaeda members made us feel safe, they cut off the hands of thieves," said Jaar resident Ali Ba Ali. "This is part of sharia, those who steal should have their hands cut off." It was not the first time Islamists claimed the right to rule territory in Yemen, where tribal and factional loyalties have often counted for more than the writ of the state, whose presence was negligible in Abyan. In the late 1990's Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, made up of jihadists who fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in 1980s, called for the establishment of an Islamic state in the impoverished country. But in Zinjibar, a resident surveying the city's bullet-riddled buildings and the destroyed tanks scattered across its main road ridiculed the Islamist claim of righteous government, asking: "What have they gained from causing this, what have they gained from cutting people's hands?" Salem Mohammed Bisher of Jaar was indifferent to the militants' ideological claims, and worried more that a government which had never provided him essential services would fail where its Islamist foes had succeeded. "We haven't had water or electricity since the day before yesterday," Bisher said, sheltering from the summer heat in the shadow of his house. "We have never had such disruptions under al Qaeda rule." The province's governor, who along with Yemen's defense minister and the army commander in the south, toured a city filled with ruined buildings and unexploded ordnance, acknowledged the state now had to show it could deliver what its foes had. 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