[Al Ahram] A Yemeni military official says a suspected US drone strike has killed six alleged Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons in the group's southern strongholds.The official said Sunday the attack took place late Saturday in the town of Mahfad 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 and targeted a car carrying the suspected krazed killers. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said security forces have identified three of the slain men. He gave no further details.
Washington considers Al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch, known as the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as one of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups.