A massive combing operation has been launched to clear the remaining Al-Qaeda Death Eaters from all areas in Yemen's Shabwa province, a day after Al-Qaeda retreated from its main stronghold in the Azzan area. Forces and popular committees are participating in the operation, which was commenced in the capital Ataq and headed toward the southern parts.
The operation coincided with a failed attempt
Curses! Foiled again!
to assassin Shabwa governor Ali Al-Ahmedi and the suicide kaboom which killed commander of the southern military region in Aden this morning, Salim Qatan
Over the past few months, the Yemeni army in association with tribal fighters has fought Al-Qaeda Death Eaters and driven them out of their strongholds in 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...
province. The Death Eaters received severe blows, with hundreds of them including big shots killed, injured and nabbed
Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up!
After the army retook control of Abyan, it pursued the fleeing Death Eaters targeting their positions in Shabwa and other nearby provinces. Tens of Death Eaters have been killed in
The US is providing direct support on the offensive against Al-Qaeda, which exploited the unrest last year to occupy key towns and declare them Islamic emirates in south Yemen.