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Latest US strike on al-Qaeda in Yemen kills four
 [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A US air strike last month killed four suspected Al-Qaeda Death Eaters in Yemen, the ninth such attack this year, the US military disclosed on Friday.The strike on May 19 took place in the southern province of Shabwa, US Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement. It brought to nine the number of US air strikes 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... (AQAP) since the beginning of the year, the statement said. Four of the strikes had not previously been disclosed. US attacks have killed a total of 81 suspected AQAP fighters, the statement said. An air strike against a training camp on March 22 killed 56 Death Eaters, according to Centcom's latest tally. The United States, which has considered AQAP the most dangerous Al-Qaeda branch since 2009, regularly conducts AQAP has taken advantage of the country's civil conflict between Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels and Yemeni government forces to expand its influence in the country's south and southeast. US soldiers had been deployed in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... until March 2015, when the last troops left the country in the face of a Houthi rebel advance. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... a "very small number" of US soldiers recently returned to the southern port of Mukalla, retaken from AQAP in April, the Pentagon confirmed last month. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-04 |
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