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Drone strike kills 8 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
[AlAhram] A drone strike killed eight suspected members of al-Qaeda in south 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... late Tuesday, security sources said. The strike hit two vehicles carrying the suspected forces of Evil in Shabwa province, killing six instantly while two died later of their wounds, the sources said. Six other alleged jihadists escaped a second air raid that missed two more vehicles in the same convoy, they added. Washington is the only government to operate drones over Yemen, but the United States only sporadically releases statements on its long-running bombing campaign against the country's powerful al-Qaeda branch. The United States considers al-Qaeda's Yemen-based franchise, 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... , to be its most dangerous. AQAP and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group have exploited a power vacuum created by the conflict between the government and Shiite Houthis to expand their presence in Yemen, especially in the south and southeast. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-19 |
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