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| Warplanes set al Qaeda compound in Yemen on fire |
| 2016-04-05 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Warplanes believed to belong to the Saudi-led coalition bombed and set ablaze an al Qaeda compound in southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Monday, residents said, the latest attack to target the turban group that controls at least two cities in the country. Islamist turbans have exploited the Yemen war between Iran-allied Houthis and forces loyal to Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to seize at least two historic provincial capitals in south and eastern Yemen, using them as bases to recruit more followers. Residents said two planes launched rockets into an old office of the local government in Zinjibar, the 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... historic provincial capital, which is held by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP), setting the building on fire. They said an unknown number of al Qaeda turbans were in the compound at the time and were believed to have been killed or maimed. Apache helicopters, also believed by residents to belong to the Saudi-led coalition, were later seen flying over the city. A local official said on Sunday that warplanes launched four air strikes on an AQAP camp near the port city of Mukalla, killing and wounding a number of turbans. It was not immediately possible to confirm the affiliation of the aircraft involved in Monday’s reported air strike. A front man for the Saudi-led alliance could not be contacted for immediate comment. US aircraft have staged attacks on AQAP fighters in Yemen in recent weeks. |
| Posted by:Fred |