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Jaafar Mohammed Saad

Governor of Yemen's Aden Governorate in 2015 (d. 2015) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jaafar Mohammed Saad
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Major General Jaafar Mohammed Saad (Arabic: جعفر محمد سعد; born 1950 – died 6 December 2015) was a Yemeni politician and soldier.[1]

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Biography

Saad was a soldier for South Yemen before unification with North Yemen in 1990.[2] Local officials said he fought for South Yemen in the Yemeni Civil War of 1994 and later lived in exile in Egypt and the United Kingdom.[3]

Saad, who held the rank of Major-General, helped government forces defend the city of Aden from Houthis in the Yemeni Civil War of 2015.[4] He was appointed as Governor of Aden Governorate on 9 October 2015.[4]

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Death

Saad was assassinated in a car bombing on his convoy in the Tawahi district of Aden on 6 December 2015. Five of his bodyguards died as well. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attack.[2]

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