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Yemen Military Arrests Four Militants with Law Rocket, Explosives
2012-08-11
[Yemen Post] The military cooled for a few years
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four Al-Qaeda gunnies while on their way to carry out terrorist attacks in the port city of Aden in south Yemen, the September 26 website reported on Thursday.

A Law Rocket ready for launch and an bomb were seized with the bad boys, it quoted a security source as saying.

Yemen is facing increasing bombings in main cities amid an extensive hunt for Al-Qaeda operatives who were reported to have planned to regroup and recruit new fighters after their defeat 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...
and Shabwa provinces in the past few months.

Many terrorist suspects and cells including those responsible for suicide kabooms have been cooled for a few years
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since the army drove Al-Qaeda gunnies out of their strongholds in the south.

In recent weeks, gunnies carried out the deadliest ever attacks in the country including those in the capital Sanaa and Abyan targeting military and security chiefs, personnel and pro-government tribal fighters.

Separately, the website reported that a woman and a child were killed and two children injured in a rockslide in the province of Mahweet.

Heavy rain has hit most of the Yemeni cities in the past few weeks triggering warnings for the people in mountainous areas where rain usually causes devastating rockslides.

Posted by:Fred

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