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US evacuates troops from south Yemen base
 Please do not disturb me until this Women's NCAA girl's basketball game is over. My niece is about to score. [Al Ahram] US military personnel stationed at Al-Anad airbase in southern Yemen have been evacuated over security concerns, a Yemeni military source said on Saturday amid fighting involving Al-Qaeda snuffies nearby. The troops left late Friday for an "unknown destination", the military source at the Yemeni base in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province told AFP. Members of Yemen's anti-terror units, which are trained by US forces and based at Al-Anad, have also been evacuated, the source added. At least 29 people were killed on Friday in festivities between Yemeni security forces and gunnies who included both Al-Qaeda members and separatists, in Lahj. Yemen has acknowledged that American personnel gathering intelligence for drone strikes on Al-Qaeda are deployed at Al-Anad. Yemen is a key US ally, allowing it to wage a long-standing drone war on its territory against 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... , considered by Washington to be the most dangerous affiliate of the global jihadist organization.
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