[Yemen Post] Gunmen attacked on Tuesday a car of the French company Total in Yemen's eastern Hadramout...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard...
province injuring the company's security chief and killing one of his Yemeni guards, security sources said.
The second guard is at death's door, the sources said.
The gunnies planned to abduct the Frenchie in Sayoon but his guards, Yemeni soldiers, exchanged fire with them, the sources made it clear. "The French was at death's door and taken to hospital, while the attackers bravely ran away," they added.
The incident comes amid increasing kidnappings by al-Qaeda krazed killers, who have been fighting the army for the past few years in southern regions.
In March, a Hodeida-based Swiss female teacher and the Aden-based Saudi consul were kidnapped and taken to hides in Shabwa province. They have not been released yet. In April, a Frenchie was kidnapped in Hodeida and the efforts to release the three have failed including military raids in Shabwa.
In the past few weeks, hundreds of bully boyz have been killed and injured amid expanded military operations to face plans to occupy more towns in the south to expand their presence.
Last year, al-Qaeda seized some towns including the capital of 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...
Zinjibar but more recently the forces, with support from the US and popular fighters, have cleared bully boyz from many in areas in this city.