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Warplanes strike al-Qaeda hideouts in south Yemen, 18 killed
 [Yemen Post] Warplanes continued pounding al-Qaeda whereabouts in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , killing at least 18 bully boyz and wounding dozens others, local security official said on Sunday."Army aircrafts bombed on Sunday the hideouts of Ansar al-Sharia, ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... the al-Qaeda wing in Yemen, in Yasouq Mountain and al-Maniasa area, located in southern Lawdar, and in areas southwestern Lawdar, killing 11 cut-throats and destroying military vehicles claimed by al-Qaeda in their battles with the army troops in the south," the security official were quoted by several local media outlets as saying. Two bully boyz were also killed when the army planes bombarded their places in areas on the outskirts of Abyan. Another Local security official told Yemen Portal, a local online newspaper, that the army troops and the tribal committees, who joined the fight against al-Qaeda after the army was outmaneuvered by the terror network for many times, made a significant headway in the ongoing fierce battles against the bully boyz in Zinjubar, the thriving provincial capital of Abyan.Zinjubar has been taken over by al-Qaeda in May of 2011, when the thug group took control of the unrest triggered by the revolution across the country. The government forces are approaching the governorship building in the city and started combing the area in search for the fundamentalists who have beat a retreat toward Ja'ar town, their old stronghold, according to the unnamed security official. Army troops from the 39th Armored Brigade advanced in the eastern part of Zinjuabar and took control of the Central Prison after they carried out painful strikes against the thugs, added the official."Five bully boyz were killed in the battles with the army troops," the official said, adding that a soldier was killed and other 13 were maimed in the festivities.The maimed soldiers were raced to Basuhib Military Hospital in the port city of Aden. Posted by: Fred 2012-04-23 |
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