[Yemen Post] Tens of al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys were killed in the continuous battles in south Yemen including Somali, Saudi and Pak leaders, 26sep.net, the mouthpiece of the Defense Ministry, reported on Wednesday. "A number of foreign terrorist leaders from Somalia, Soddy Arabia and Pakistain were killed when the army with support from locals including popular committees targeted al-Qaeda positions and fighters in the Lawder town," the website reported, quoting a local official.
Among the leaders killed in fierce battles with the forces and people in Lawder were Imad al-Manshabi and Dradish Tahir, it continued.
Dozens of al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys and the Sharia Supporters, 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...
have been killed in the town in the past few days.
The gun-hung tough guys retreated and their plans to occupy Lawder have been thwarted.
In June, al-Qaeda occupied tow towns in Abyan including the capital Zinjibar and since then they have been fighting the army inside their strongholds.
More recently, AQAP, al-Qaeda's Yemen-based branch which was founded in 2009 when the Yemeni and Saudi terrorist wings merged, has announced plans to expand its presence and target key installations.
The US is providing direct support to the Yemeni forces to fight the krazed killers, with some of them killed in drone strikes.