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Drone strike kills two suspected Qaeda members in Yemen
[AlAhram] An apparent US drone strike 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... killed two suspected al-Qaeda members and caused a large kaboom when munitions they were transporting blew up, a security official and witnesses said Wednesday. Washington is the only government to operate drones over Yemen but only periodically releases statements on its long-running bombing campaign against the country's powerful al-Qaeda branch. Tuesday evening's strike hit the Wadi Abida district of Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa. The security official named one of the dead as Abu Yaqin al-Waeli, a local al-Qaeda commander. Marib is largely in the hands of loyalists of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and his allies in a Saudi-led coalition. But al-Qaeda has taken advantage of fighting with the Iranian catspaws who control the capital to expand their presence in the province. Washington considers al-Qaeda's Yemen-based franchise to be its most dangerous and has kept up its drone war throughout the conflict. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-09-22 |
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