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Drone Strike Kills 4 Qaida Suspects in Yemen's Mukalla
[AnNahar] Four suspected al-Qaeda members were killed Monday in an apparent U.S. drone strike on the Yemeni port city of Mukalla, which the jihadists overran last month, an official said.The drone targeted a vehicle at the entrance to a presidential palace in Mukalla, capital of the southeastern province of Hadramawt, the official said, asking not to be named. "Four al-Qaeda members were killed, including leaders, and others maimed," he said, without being able to name those killed. A U.S. drone strike last month killed the senior al-Qaeda official who appeared in a video claiming the deadly January attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo ...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe..., a monitor said Thursday. Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi was killed in the April strike along with his eldest son and other fighters, also near the palace in Mukalla. The announcement of his death came in a video posted last week on Twitter by 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... -- which Washington considers the international terror network's deadliest branch. The United States is the only country that operates drones over war-torn Yemen. Al-Qaeda has exploited fighting between rebels and beleaguered government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition to consolidate its grip on Hadramawt province. Washington has acknowledged that al-Qaeda is gaining ground but has vowed to keep up its battle against the group. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-12 |
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