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| 7 'Qaida', Soldier Killed in Yemen Clashes |
| 2014-05-19 |
| [AnNahar] Yemeni forces killed seven al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons in separate festivities on Saturday while a soldier died in a firefight as the army pressed an offensive against jihadists, officials said. "Five al-Qaeda members" were killed in the southern Shabwa province when festivities broke out after faceless myrmidons ambushed a military convoy, a security official said. One soldier was killed and five others were maimed in the shootout east of the town of Ataq, the official said. Earlier the defense ministry said on its 26sep.net news website that army forces killed "two Saudi terrorists, Ibrahim Hamad and Ahmed al-Harbi," in the town of Azzan, also in Shabwa. The army seized Azzan after launching its operation on April 29, but continues to clash with some al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons still holed up in houses there, witnesses said. The provinces 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... and Shabwa and the neighboring central province of Baida have been the focus of the offensive. President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi vowed Thursday to clear al-Qaeda from all its remaining bastions by extending the offensive to other regions. He named Marib, east of Sanaa, where al-Qaeda is firmly implanted. A military official cited by state news agency Saba Saturday said "al-Qaeda members are still being hunted" and stressed that the operation "will continue until they are cleared." The official urged people to be vigilant about faceless myrmidons "fleeing" from Mahfad and Shabwa to neighboring areas. The jihadists' Yemen franchise, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, took advantage of a 2011 uprising that forced veteran 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... from power to seize large swathes of the south and east. The army recaptured several major towns in 2012 but has struggled to reassert control in rural areas despite recruiting militia allies among the local tribes. |
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