[NEWS.XINHUANET] About three gunnies of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch were killed after an unmanned U.S. plane fired a missile at a running vehicle in the southeastern province of Shabwa on Friday, a military official told Xinhua."The
The military source said that the strike was launched on specific intelligence inputs provided by the Yemeni anti-terror unit and resulted in killing three terrorists.
He added that among those killed was the brother of Saad Bin Atef, the leader of al-Qaeda terrorist group in Shabwa province.
The mountainous areas in 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...
provinces have been the scene of U.S. drone attacks and festivities between Yemeni security forces and gunnies of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch since the emergence of the group in the country eight years ago.