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Drone Attack Kills Four Qaida Suspects in Yemen
[AnNahar] A drone strike killed four suspected al-Qaeda forces of Evil in Yemen Saturday, tribal sources said, the second attack in a week since Washington vowed to pursue its campaign against the jihadists.Tribal sources said the unmanned aircraft, which only the United States operates in the region, targeted a car carrying four forces of Evil in the southern province of Shabwa, a stronghold of the jihadist network. A similar strike on a car on Monday in a desert area between Shabwa and the neighboring province of Marib killed three suspected members of al-Qaeda. That vehicle was hit by four missiles. The previous day U.S. President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... had vowed no let-up in Washington's campaign against jihadists in Yemen. He dismissed suggestions that deepening chaos in Yemen since the resignation of Western-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi last week had forced a change in Washington's campaign against al-Qaeda. Obama ruled out U.S. troop deployment in Yemen but said Washington would continue "to go after high value targets inside Yemen", admitting however that this was "a long, arduous process." According to the New America Foundation, the United States has carried out more than 110 strikes on targets in Yemen since 2009, mostly using drones. One such attack in September 2011 killed U.S.-Yemeni holy man Anwar al-Awlaqi, a leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... accused of instigating a string of attacks against the United States. AQAP, which Washington considers the most dangerous branch of the global terror network, also grabbed credit for the deadly January 7 attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo ...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe.... Posted by: trailing wife 2015-02-01 |
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