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| Yemen Airforce Raids Suspected Qaida Positions |
| 2014-08-11 |
| [AnNahar] Yemeni warplanes on Sunday launched a series of raids against suspected al-Qaeda positions in Hadramawt province, a hotbed of jihadist attacks on troops, a military official said. The raids on the outskirts of Qoton coincided with a visit to the town in southeast Yemen by Defense Minister General Mohammed Nasser Ahmed to inspect troops preparing to launch an offensive against the growing jihadist presence in Hadramawt, the source said. The military official said the raids caused casualties but could not provide a toll. During his tour, the defense minister vowed his forces will "avenge the 15 soldiers executed" by al-Qaeda on Friday after they were seized near the Hadramawt town of Shibam, according to another army official. On Thursday, 11 suspected al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons and four Yemeni soldiers were killed in attacks on two army posts in Qoton and Sayun, a jihadist stronghold in Hadramawt. The army had reinforced its positions in Hadramawt ahead of the anticipated operation against faceless myrmidons in the province. On Wednesday, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula grabbed credit for several attacks in the south and southeast of Yemen that killed 20 soldiers. AQAP is considered by Washington as the most dangerous affiliate of the jihadist network. The group is active across several parts of Yemen, taking advantage of a collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that ousted 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... In late April, the army launched a ground offensive against AQAP in the southern provinces of Shabwa and 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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