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President orders army to storm al-Qaeda-controlled towns in South Yemen
2012-05-27
[Yemen Post] Yemeni President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi
...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh...
ordered the army units in the southern province 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 Emirate after 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...
to storm Zinjubar, the lovely provincial capital, and Ja'ar, the al-Qaeda stronghold, in an effort to dislodge the beturbanned goons from their areas of influence, familiar sources said.

The sources said that Hadi gave his orders to the army troops in Abyan to start a comprehensive campaign to retake control of the captured towns and push the elements out of them. The sources revealed that carrying intensive Arclight airstrikes have been planned in order to neutralize al-Qaeda snipers who are positioned in areas close to the troops' sites and help significantly in slowing down the military operations.

The government has stepped up the security measures in guarding the government officials and army commanders after intelligence received information indicating that the cut-throats are planning to target government, army, and security officials.Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
military armored vehicles were deployed in the central part of the capital to prevent riots caused by former President's supporters recently in al-Tahrir area.The threat of al-Qaeda in Yemen has heightened, especially after the terror network carried out suicide kabooms in Sana'a and other provinces that left more than 150 people killed in less than a week.
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