| Submit your comments on this article |
| Arabia |
| 11 Tribesmen Killed in Two South Yemen Suicide Attacks |
| 2011-08-22 |
| [An Nahar] Eleven Yemeni rustics were killed overnight in two suicide kabooms in the southern province of Abyan, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda, tribal sources and medics told AFP on Sunday. Tribal sources accused Al-Qaeda members of carrying out the attacks in two villages of Abyan province, where Yemeni rustics and the army have been battling Death Eaters from the "Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law)" who are believed to be close to the Al-Qaeda network. A jacket wallah killed Sheikh Abu Bahr Ashal, the chief of Ashal tribe, and two others as he detonated an boom belt he was wearing when he approached them while they chewed the local soft narcotic qat in Moudia, east of Zinjibar -- the picturesque provincial capital mostly seized by Death Eaters since May. The bodies of Ashal and one of his A medical source confirmed the corpse count. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... eight people were killed and 20 others maimed when a suicide bomber rammed an car bomb into a post of armed rustics in the area of Arkub, near the town of Shaqra, which was taken over by myrmidon Death Eaters last week, a tribal source said. A medical source said that seven of the maimed sustained serious injuries and were taken to a hospital in the neighboring province of Baida. Yemeni rustics siding with government forces have in past weeks been locked in battle with suspected Al-Qaeda Death Eaters in Abyan, especially in Zinjibar. The army has been battling the Partisans of Sharia hard boys, who have besieged its 25th Mechanized Brigade base in Zinjibar since May. Apart from Shaqra and Zinjibar, Islamist gunnies control the village of Jaar. |
| Posted by:Fred |