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Seven militants killed in Yemen clashes
[Dawn] At least seven forces of Evil linked to al Qaeda were killed in festivities inYemen's restive south, a regional tribal front man said on Saturday, as the impoverished Arab state fights to tame a stubborn insurgency.

Yemen has launched an offensive against Islamist snuffies in the territory who took advantage of the chaos surrounding more than a year of mass protests and fighting that unseated President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
from the presidency.

Ali Aidah, front man for an army-allied tribal force, said five forces of Evil from 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...
, an al Qaeda-affiliated group, were killed in an ambush by rustics in the al-Arkoub area near the southern city of Lawder on Friday night.

Two more forces of Evil were killed in an attack by rustics in another area outside of Lawder, he said.

Separately, a security official in the southern province of Lahej said a Yemeni intelligence officer, Colonel Yasser Abdul-Qawi, was rubbed out by unknown gunnies on Saturday morning while he was walking near the main city hospital.

More than 250 people have been killed since government forces stepped up attacks on the forces of Evil whom it accused of assaulting a military camp near Lawdar earlier this month.

Islamist snuffies have already taken control of a number of cities in the southern territory, which is close to key shipping lanes in theRed Sea.

Yemen's new president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who took office vowing to fight al Qaeda, is also facing challenges from Shi'ite Moslem rebels in the north and secessionists in the south.
Posted by: Fred 2012-04-29
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