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| Local tribesmen crack-down on al-Qaeda in Abyan |
| 2013-03-13 |
| [Yemen Post] A Pro-government tribal militia based in the southern province of 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... confirmed on Monday it managed to crack-down on one al-Qaeda cell in the region. A tribal leader told the press on Sunday his men had sussed out and destroyed an important terror cell near the city of Jaar. Jaar was invaded by al-Qaeda gunnies back in 2011 when it remained under the group's control for months. It took a large scale military operation to outroot Islamist gunnies in the province. The Sheikh explained his men had been on the hunt for quite some time, knowing the terror cell was planning to run operation from its hideouts which would destabilize the province. With so much ground to cover and a limited men power, the Defense Ministry has been relying heavily on local tribes to maintain order and keep the threat that is al-Qaeda at bay. "Our tribal fighters stormed an al-Qaeda-held site in Jaar town and seized 10 cut-throats along with three improvised bombs," Xinhua agency quoted a tribal source as saying. The Defense and Interior Ministries have been both on the look-out for any sign of unrest or renewed terror activities in Yemen as officials are putting the final details to Yemen crucial National Dialogue Conference (March 18). |
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