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Two Qaeda suspects killed in Yemen drone strike
 [AlAhram] Two suspected al-Qaeda turbans were killed in a dronezap in war-torn Yemen, local security sources said Saturday amid a surge in US raids against Islamist bully boys.The sources said the drone, apparently American, hit the fighters on Friday evening as they rode a cycle of violence through the Sawmaa area of central Baida province. The region is a stronghold of 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), which has taken advantage of the chaos caused by more than two years of civil war to expand its presence in Yemen. Baida was the site of the first raid ordered by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... after he took office in January. The US has since escalated its drone war in Yemen, where security officials have reported dozens of suspected Islamist turbans killed in strikes on 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... , Baida and the neighbouring province of Shabwa. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-09 |
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