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Warplanes strike al-Qaeda hideouts in Shabwa, 27 militants killed
[Yemen Post]  Yemeni aircrafts stroke on Wednesday 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... -- al-Qaeda affiliate in the country--hideouts in the southeastern province of Shabwa, killing at least 27 snuffies including leading figures, local sources said. The sources said that government warplanes launched some The sources said that dozens of the al-Qaeda-linked snuffies were in the building when it was bombed, leaving at least 27 of them killed. Also, rumors circulating around the province indicated that the building was used as a laboratory for making explosives. A senior security officer confirmed that senior al-Qaeda leaders were among those killed in the However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the terror network denied in a statement posted on Facebook that some snuffies were killed in the bombing. It said that the The bad turban group said that the According to the statement, no victims have fallen as a result to the In the meantime, the festivities between the army troops and al-Qaeda bad turban are still ongoing in Shaqra area 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, smells, 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... , after the snuffies were driven out yesterday of the their biggest strongholds: Zinjubar, the placid provincial capital of Abyan, and Ja'ar. The army's victory is considered the biggest so far since the terrorist organization took advantage of the unrest and seized huge swaths of land in the south last year. Posted by: Fred 2012-06-14 |
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