The Yemeni authorities have tightened security measures around the residency of President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi in Sana'a hours after revealing that he was subjected to an assassination attempt with poison.
Sources close to Yemeni presidency told the Emirati al-Khaleej newspaper that security measures were taken to secure Hadi's residency as water supply of his residency was poisoned.
Yemen witnesses a state of loose security following the ouster of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh who some of his relatives still run military services.
Yemeni political sides exchange accusations about inflaming instability and tensions in light of divisions among military units.
Yemeni politicians always demand to end the division of the military, stressing that the division endangers the political settlement.
High ranking officials including party leaders, ministers and military commanders were subjected to assassination attempts during the past months.
Al-Qaeda has assassinated about 60 Yemeni officers across Yemen since the beginning of 2012 in a new tactic of Al-Qaeda, media sources reported.
Yemeni analysts say that Al-Qaeda failed to target Yemeni strategic faculties and it resorted to assassinate high-ranking officers as a simple option.
Most assassinations carried out against intelligence officers have occurred in Aden and Sana'a which has been experiencing alarming insecurity since the popular uprising erupted against the former regime in early 2011.
While assassinations of top intelligence officers have increased since the beginning of 2012, some groups and political forces obviously take advantage of the unrest roiling the country, Yemeni analysts affirm.