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Yemen govt forces seize Qaeda-held military camp
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni government forces backed by an Arab coalition seized an al-Qaeda training camp in the southeastern province of Hadramawt Saturday along with "large amounts" of weapons, its governor told AFP.It comes during an offensive launched last month to recapture areas in the south overrun by al-Qaeda and which on Sunday saw loyalist forces recapture Hadramawt historic provincial capital Mukalla, which the "The offensive is continuing in Qoton to hunt down al-Qaeda murderous Moslems," said Hadramawt governor Major General Ahmed bin Braik, referring to a town north of Mukalla. Braik said government forces overran an al-Qaeda training camp in the town where they "confiscated large amounts of weapons" and "tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! eight al-Qaeda murderous Moslems". "Mukalla is now a safe city," Braik added. The capture of the military camp comes as Yemen’s warring parties began face-to-face peace talks on Saturday on "key issues" in a bid to end the conflict in the impoverished Arab country. An AFP news hound there said the situation had returned to normal as pro-government forces deployed across Mukalla with troops from the Arab coalition securing the ports. Government troops that seized the city were backed by special forces from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates, as well as by coalition air strikes, the alliance said in a statement. At least 27 Yemeni soldiers died in the fight to retake Mukalla, military officials and medics said. And while the coalition has said that more than 800 The statement addressing Hadramawt residents and signed by Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , another name for Al-Qaeda in Yemen, said that the "We will fight the battle by our own rules and ways and not by those of the enemy," said the statement, adding that the UAE had played the biggest role in the fight for Mukalla. An officer there had told AFP that residents of Mukalla, home to an estimated 200,000 people, had appealed to the The Yemen-based 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... is regarded by Washington as the network’s most dangerous branch, and AQAP Posted by: Fred 2016-05-01 |
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