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Drone strike kills 2 al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen
2018-02-18
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A US dronezap in central 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...
killed two suspected al-Qaeda members on a cycle of violence including a local commander, a security official said on Saturday.

The unmanned aircraft struck the cycle of violence carrying the men in Bayda province at around midnight on Friday, the official told AFP.

"The strike targeted two al-Qaeda krazed killers, local commander Abu Hussein al-Theriya and another, Dawoud al-Sanaani, as they rode through the province," he said.

Although the US only sporadically reports on its long-running bombing campaign against 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), it is the only force known to operate armed drones over Yemen.

The drone war has intensified 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.

Posted by:Fred

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