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| 2 Yemeni soldiers, four militants killed in south |
| 2014-03-09 |
| [Pak Daily Times] At least two Yemeni soldiers and four turbans were killed in a clash on Saturday when al Qaeda gunnies tried to attack a military compound in southern Yemen, the defence ministry said. The clash occurred when al Qaeda turbans approached the compound in Lawdar town with suicide belts, hand grenades and bombs, the ministry said on its website. Soldiers and members of neighbourhood patrols confronted them. The website earlier put the toll at one dead myrmidon and two Yemeni soldiers. It later quoted a military source as saying four "terrorists" had been killed, one of whom had Saudi nationality and went by the name "Abu Musab". A third soldier was maimed in the attack in southern 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. Yemen is home to one of al Qaeda's most lethal franchises, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The group has focused much of its attacks in Yemen on security forces. Stabilising Yemen is an international priority given its proximity to top oil exporter Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . |
| Posted by:Fred |