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| US-led drone strike in Abyan takes down al-Qaeda operatives |
| 2014-04-02 |
| [Yemen Post] Less than a week after President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi expressed his unconditional support of drone strikes as a valuable tool against terror, officials confirmed that a US-led drone strike targeted on Tuesday a vehicle believed to be linked to well-known terror krazed killers. The strike took place 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... , a region which back in 2011 fell under the control of al-Qaeda. It took the government six months in 2012 for its military to expulse terror operatives out of Jaar and Zinjibar, cities in Abyan which were declared Islamic Caliphates by Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... h, an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Yemen. Even though the government has since then partnered with local rustics organized under Popular Committees to prevent terror bully boyz from staging a comeback to the restive province, ongoing political instability and a breakdown in security has meant that al-Qaeda operatives have grown bolder, putting once again the entire of Yemen' southern region in jeopardy. Only Sunday, al-Qaeda bully boyz ambushed pro-government rustics in a stretch of road northeast of Zinijibar in between Lauder and Moudia. Local residents have said to be concerned over the possibility of more drone strikes in the area as the authorities will attempt to run terror bully boyz out of the province, thus increasing the likeliness of civilian casualties. Tuesday strike occurred in Mahfad. Officials have yet to confirm how many bully boyz were killed in the strike Activists in Yemen have warned they will continue to campaign against drones as they feel they pose a too greater threat to civilians. |
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