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Drone Strike Kills Qaida Suspect in Yemen
[An Nahar] A dronezap killed a suspected al-Qaeda Lion of Islam in southern Yemen, a security official said on Thursday, as the US steps up its air war against the jihadists.The missile hit al-Qaeda provincial official Ahmed Ali Saana as he was riding a cycle of violence late on Wednesday in the town of Khabar al-Muraqasha in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, a major target of recent dronezaps, the official said on condition of anonymity. The Pentagon has confirmed more than 70 air strikes on al-Qaeda targets 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... since February 28. Yemeni security officials have reported dozens of suspected jihadist fighters killed in the strikes on Abyan and the neighbouring provinces of Shabwa and Baida. More than two years of civil war in Yemen between government forces and Iranian catspaws who control the capital have created a power vacuum which al-Qaeda has exploited to consolidate its presence. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-07 |
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