[An Nahar] Eight suspected al-Qaeda members were killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike in eastern Yemen on Friday, a local official said.The official, who declined to be named, told Agence La Belle France Presse the suspects were in an armored car on the road between Qatan and Khashgha when it was struck.
It was the third such anti-Qaeda strike in Hadramawt province this week, following attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday that left seven dead.
The United States is the only country that has drones in the region and it has stepped up its strikes on al-Qaeda targets in the Arabian Peninsula state.
Al-Qaeda took advantage of a nearly year-long uprising which led to president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
stepping down in February to seize large swathes of south and east Yemen.
Al-Qaeda loyalists have carried out a spate of deadly attacks against Yemeni security forces and their militia allies since President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi came to power earlier this year pledging to crush the jihad boys.
In an all-out offensive launched in May, the army retook a string of towns in 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 of southern Yemen.