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Drone strike kills 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
2017-04-24
A presumed US dronezap in south 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 Sunday killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda and three civilians, a security official said.

Earlier, a local official gave a toll of three suspects killed in the strike in the al-Said area of Shabwa province.

The vehicle targeted was carrying five suspected al-Qaeda members, all of whom were killed by a missile, the security official said.

Three civilians who went to their aid were killed when a second missile struck, the official said.

Washington has sharply intensified its air war against the forces of Evil since 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...
took office in January.

The Pentagon said on April 3 that it had carried out more than 70 strikes against targets in Yemen since February 28.

Before Sunday's attack, two strikes overnight on Tuesday killed five suspected members of 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...
Washington regards AQAP to be the most dangerous branch of the hard boy group.

Last month, US media reports said Trump's administration had given new powers to the CIA to conduct dronezaps against hard boy targets in the Middle East.

Posted by:Fred

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