[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda stroke again this Sunday when it kidnapped Brig. Khaled Masood, a military intelligence officer based in Mudiya, a city of 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 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...
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Local officials confirmed on Sunday Brig. Massod was targeted by the terror group while he was still at his residence. "The al-Qaeda suspects who were armed with assault rifles raided the officer's house and took him to unknown location," a government source said.
Security officers have now set out to track down the terror Islamic fascisti to free their colleague.
Confrontations in Abyan in between the government and al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti have intensified over the past weeks with reports of attacks on al-Qafr and Maraksha on Friday and Saturday against pro-government militias.
Restive Abyan continues to pose the state a serious challenge with Islamic Islamic fascisti successfully managing to fall back on their positions, weaken but never completely beaten.
Even the use of tribal militias loyal to the central government did not drive away forces of Evil from the region.
With President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi determined to militarily run down al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti with the U.S. military support, security analysts advance an alternative approach could prove better suited.