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| Yemeni forces kill 5 al Qaeda fighters in southern offensive: ministry |
| 2014-05-03 |
| [Beirut Daily Star] Yemeni government forces killed five Al-Qaeda snuffies and maimed dozens of others in south Yemen, the Defense Ministry said on Friday, in the fourth day of an offensive against Islamist bad boys. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has hampered the U.S.-allied state's efforts to restore stability since a popular revolt in 2011 that forced out longtime autocrat President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... but left widespread disorder that continues. Yemeni troops launched their offensive into an expanse of south Yemen spanning 20,000 square km (7,700 square miles) - the size of the U.S. state of New Jersey - on Tuesday, backed by air force jets and hundreds of loyalist militiamen. On Friday, troops killed five snuffies and destroyed three vehicles, one of which mounted with anti-aircraft machineguns, used by the turbans in the southern province of Shabwa, a defence ministry website quoted a military source as saying. The website, 26 September, said the military was chasing turbans who had fled into mountains. In nearby 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... , the military launched an onslaught with tanks and rockets and backed by the air force on locations used by snuffies in the southern province, it said. It said there were "killed and maimed" turbans but provided no figure. |
| Posted by:Fred |