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Qaida Leader, Would-Be Bombers Killed, Terrorist Cells Dismantled in Yemen
2012-06-21
[Yemen Post] The Supreme Security Committee on Wednesday said a senior Al-Qaeda leader was killed in an Arclight airstrike along with two would-be bombers in Baidha province.

Salah Al-Jawheri, dubbed Al-Thalaja, was the leader of Al-Qaeda in Yafi in south Yemen and the commander of suicide cells in Sanaa and Baidha provinces, a source at the committee said.

The two, killed in the Arclight airstrike which came within an ongoing hunt for gun-hung tough guys in several parts of the country, had been prepared to attack military and security officials in Baidha, the source said.

Within the upgraded counterterrorism efforts after the huge victory on Al-Qaeda 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 Emirate after 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...
, the authorities also thwarted a plot to target foreign embassies in the capital Sanaa, the source added.

"The authorities seized a car inside which three terrorists, explosives and maps showing the locations of foreign embassies and houses of senior military commanders in Yemen were captured," the source continued.

Furthermore, the authorities have set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
a terrorist cell led by Nizar Abdulrahman Al-Jumai, a Tunisian who was one of the most dangerous foreign hard boyz wanted by Yemen, the source said.

"The cell was spotted while moving among the provinces of Abyan, Shabwa and Hadramout."
...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard...
Yemen has launched a massive hunt for myrmidons, who escaped after the forces drove Al-Qaeda out of its strongholds seized last year in Abyan province.

Many gun-hung tough guys including big shots have been killed in the hunt in provinces adjacent to Abyan so far.

Hundreds of gun-hung tough guys including leaders were killed in the Abyan offensive over the past few months.

After its severe defeat, Al-Qaeda vowed to retaliate through attacking key US and Yemeni targets.
Posted by:Fred

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