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15 Dead in Qaida Assault on Yemen City
[An Nahar] Dozens of suspected Qaeda Death Eaters launched a night-time assault on one of southeastern Yemen's main cities sparking fierce fighting that killed at least 15 people, security sources said on Saturday.They attacked army bases and public buildings in Seiyun, second city of Hadramawt province, with boom-mobiles, rocket-launchers and heavy machineguns, the sources said. The regional military headquarters, the special forces base and the main cop shoppe were all targeted, along with local government offices and banks. The assault in Hadramawt, a jihadist stronghold that has seen large-scale attacks on the army in the past, came as troops pressed a month-old ground offensive against al-Qaeda in 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... and Shabwa provinces to the west. Posted by: Fred 2014-05-25 |
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