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Arabia
Clashes continue in Abyan, 27 killed
2012-05-31
[Yemen Post] Fierce festivities between the army troops assisted by tribal militias and al-Qaeda linked gunnies continued on Wednesday morning in the southern Yemeni 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...
leaving at least 20 forces of Evil and 7 soldiers killed, according to local sources.Sources said that fierce festivities erupted in the early hours of Wednesday morning between the two warning sides in the outskirts of Ja'ar town, the second biggest city in Abyan and al-Qaeda stronghold.

The army has been imposing siege on Ja'ar as a part of an effort to push the forces of Evil out.Military operations intensified at the behest of President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi
...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh...
who ordered the troops to storm the al-Qaeda-controlled towns and kick the forces of Evil out of them.According to the sources, al-Qaeda carried out a counter attack on military troops stationed around Ja'ar but the army troops and the rustics managed to repel the attack, and kill 20 bully boys. After the foiled al-Qaeda attack, the army troops have tightened their siege on the bully boys.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact...
the local news website said government troops from 135 and 201 Brigades managed to foil some bully boys' attempts to infiltrate into army positions.Ansar al-Sharia
...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends...
infiltrated into some army outposts in the past few months, killing dozens soldiers and wounding dozens of others.
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