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Yemen soldier killed in 'Qaeda attack': Security
[Al Ahram] A suspected Al-Qaeda attack on an army checkpoint in southeast Yemen on Saturday killed one soldier and maimed another, a security source said. The attack targeted an army checkpoint in the Al-Qatn area of the semi-desert Hadramawt province, the source said. The source said that the gunnies, suspected Al-Qaeda myrmidons, had fled. Yemeni troops launched an offensive in late April to dislodge Al-Qaeda forces of Evil from their strongholds in the south of the country. One hundred soldiers and 500 forces of Evil were killed in the operation, a military front man said on Thursday. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is considered by Washington the global jihadist network's deadliest franchise. The group was created in a merger between the network's Yemeni and Saudi branches, and it has been targeted by US drone strikes this year. Taking advantage of a collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that forced veteran strongman 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 power, Al-Qaeda seized swathes of the south and east. They remain deeply entrenched in Hadramawt province further east, where they have carried out a series of spectacular attacks in past months. Posted by: Fred 2014-06-08 |
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