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Defense Ministry: Al-Qaeda leader killed in Hadhramout
 [Yemen Post] Yemen's defense ministry has said that an al-Qaeda leader, Khalid Batais, was killed Friday in an A website of the defense ministry stated that Khalid Batais was killed in an It spelt out that the family of Batais identified him and received his body, pointing out that the bodies of other faceless myrmidons were not identified. At least eight faceless myrmidons were killed in the ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... province amid a continuous, massive hunt for Al-Qaeda operatives across Yemen. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... tribal sources said that an They indicated that the After the Yemeni government announced its victory in early June, al-Qaeda carried out a suicide kaboom various governorates and killed the commander of Yemen's southern military region, Salem Qatan. Although Yemen announced that it defeated al-Qaeda and dislodged its faceless myrmidons of southern towns, al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons are still existed in some remote mountains and areas 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... , local sources say. Security officials said that the authorities foiled many plans to carry out terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda in the capital Sana'a and other major cities, affirming that they seized 40 belts packed with explosives in the past month. Posted by: Fred 2012-09-03 |
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