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| New wave of US air raids on Qaeda in Yemen |
| 2017-03-06 |
| [AlAhram] The United States on Sunday launched a new wave of air raids against al-Qaeda in Yemen, as Islamist turbans fled from towns being targeted to mountainous areas, security sources said. At least five early morning raids hit targets linked to 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) in the southern Shabwa and central Baida provinces, security sources told AFP. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Among the areas from which the radical group pulled its operatives is the Baida town of Ghail, where top AQAP commander Abdulelah al-Dhahab has reportedly been holed up, the sources said. Suspected AQAP gunnies meanwhile killed five soldiers at a checkpoint in the southern province 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... , which has itself been hit by air strikes in recent days, security sources and medics there said. Since Thursday, Washington, which regards AQAP as the Islamist turbans network's most dangerous branch, has stepped up its air and dronezaps on Yemeni provinces including Baida, Shabwa and Abyan. The Pentagon on Friday confirmed it had carried out more than 30 strikes against AQAP, conducted in partnership with the Yemeni government. Local officials and tribal sources told AFP that at least 20 Islamist turbans were killed on Thursday and Friday. The bombing campaign comes after a botched January 29 raid against AQAP left multiple civilians and a US Navy SEAL dead in the first military strike ordered by President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Al-Qaeda has exploited a power vacuum created by two years of war between Yemen's government and sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians who control the capital to consolidate its presence, particularly in the south and east. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Beso, seriously is prolonging the conflict a bad thing? As long as it stays contained having the Iranian faction killing the AQAP folks and IS when found; and vice versa just seems like a reason to stock up on pop-corn. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-03-06 12:15 |
| #3 The 'git done and git out' strategy. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-03-06 09:42 |
| #2 Short of massive sweeps requiring hundreds of thousands of soldiers and a huge logistics tail, aggressive raids and ambushes are the correct approach. Drone zapping 'eaches' is a half-asses approach that harvest little if any actionable intelligence and prolongs the conflict. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-06 09:04 |
| #1 But Democrats and the MSM (BIRM) quoted unnamed Obamabot "Senior Mil Sources" as saying the raid gathered NO usable/valuable info and intel. Who ya gonna believe? Time to root out the corrupt rot |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-03-06 08:53 |