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| Yemen Air Raids Kill 7 'Qaida' Members |
| 2013-06-02 |
| [An Nahar] Two air strikes that targeted two vehicles in south Yemen on Saturday killed seven suspected members of Al-Qaeda and maimed two more, a local official said. The attacks by the Yemeni air force hit the vehicles on the outskirts of the town of Mahfad 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, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... The official said Al-Qaeda-linked gunnies were seen evacuating the casualties and transferring them to a local medical center. Al-Qaeda gunnies remain active in Mahfad, close to Zinjibar and Jaar, which they ruled for a year before being driven out by a government offensive mounted in May 2012. |
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