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| Gunmen Kill Two Yemen Soldiers |
| 2014-05-20 |
| [AnNahar] Gunmen killed two soldiers in an ambush on an army patrol in southeastern Yemen on Monday, a security official said. "Unknown gunnies shot up a military vehicle killing two soldiers," the source said. The attack took place at the entrance to Shehr, a coastal town in Hadramawt province. The assailants fled, he said. The ambush coincided with an army operation launched April 29 against suspected Al-Qaeda bad boys, centered on 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... and Shabwa in the south and the central province of Baida. But Al-Qaeda is also firmly implanted in other regions, including Hadramawt. Its Yemeni franchise, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, took advantage of a 2011 uprising that ousted veteran president 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... to seize large swathes of the south and east. The army recaptured several major towns in 2012 but has struggled to reassert control in rural areas despite recruiting militia allies among local tribes. |
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