(Xinhua) -- Al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys on Tuesday bumped off a security colonel working at the Yemen LNG company in southern Shabwa province, local official said."Gunmen of al-Qaeda in Shabwa's quiet provincial capital city of Ataq intercepted the car of Colonel Ali Thwaba, who is also the security director of foreign oil and gas companies in Yemen LNG company in Balhaf city port, and banged him," the official told Xinhua by phone on condition of anonymity.
Shabwa province is the ancestral homeland of the U.S.-born radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who appeared in a 23-minute video tape posted on the internet on Friday, inciting Mohammedans to kill Americans.
"Do not consult anyone in killing Americans. Killing the devil does not need any fatwa, Americans are the party of Satan and killing them is a Mohammedan duty," Awlaki said in his video message.
... which would imply that killing Mohammedans is a duty for Americans. Not being mired in the 7th century, we're still trying to sort out the different flavors of Mohammedans.
On Nov. 2, the Yemeni security court put al-Awlaki on trial in absence for alleged charge of inciting killing foreigners, especially Americans.
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Since the beginning of this year, al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys in Yemen, also known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been targeting security and intelligence officers and killed dozens of them.