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| Yemeni tribesmen kill militant leader in south |
| 2011-08-11 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Armed Yemeni rustics said on Wednesday they had killed a orc leader in the country's south during a campaign by tribal and government forces to retake areas seized by fighters in the crisis-ridden Arabian Peninsula state. Seven months of protests against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... 33-year rule have paralysed Yemen, plunging it into a crisis that has loosened army control over swathes of the fractious, impoverished state. Soddy Arabia and the United States have both been targeted by al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing and fear that a power vacuum in the Arab world's poorest country could present a major threat to international security. Militants who the government says belong to al Qaeda have exploited the upheaval to expand their foothold in the south, taking over at least two cities in the volatile southern province of Abyan including its capital Zinjibar. A tribal leader in Abyan said rustics killed Yassir al-Shalily, a leader of Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... (Supporters of Islamic Law) during pitched battles overnight in Mudiyah, about 130 km (80 miles) from the southern port of Aden, when Orcs and similar vermin trying to enter the city were repelled. |
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