An air raid struck the eastern outskirts of the Yemeni town Jaar in the 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...
province that is controlled by Al-Qaeda on Thursday, killing five Islamist hard boyz and wounding three others, a local official stated.
Two other Al-Qaeda gunnies were killed in festivities with local Islamic fascisti belonging to the Popular Resistance Committees, who are fighting alongside the army, in the village of Batis, north of Jaar, the official said.
The festivities erupted when the hard boyz attempted to return to the village which they had controlled until they were chased out by the army last week.
And five more jihadists were killed in an ambush near Batis, the official added.
He said the ambush by pro-army Islamic fascisti was led by a former Al-Qaeda beturbanned goon, Abdullah al-Sayed, who defected last year in protest at the presence of "foreigners" in the ranks of the Islamists group.
Yemeni forces launched an all-out offensive on 12 May aimed at reclaiming the Abyan picturesque provincial capital Zinjibar and other towns and cities lost to Al-Qaeda during the past year.