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| 'Qaida' Gunman Kills Yemen Soldier in Southern Town |
| 2014-06-11 |
| [AnNahar] A suspected al-Qaeda gunman killed a soldier in a Yemeni scenic provincial capital on Tuesday, bringing the corpse count in the southern town of Huta to three in as many days. The soldier was rubbed out at a checkpoint in the town, capital of Lahij province, a security source said. Tensions have run high in Huta since a wave of arrests targeting suspected al-Qaeda bully boyz prompted a Sunday assault on the cop shoppe where they were being held, killing a soldier. Lahij province is home to the Al-Anad air base, north of the main southern city of Aden, where Yemeni officials have said Washington has personnel deployed gathering intelligence for its drone war against al-Qaeda. In late April, the Yemeni army launched a ground offensive against al-Qaeda 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... and Shabwa provinces farther east. Commanders say they have killed more than 500 bully boys, but the jihadists have regrouped in the mountains and in neighboring provinces. A suspected al-Qaeda gunman killed a civilian in Huta on Monday. Al-Qaeda took advantage of the collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that forced veteran strongman 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... from power to seize large swathes of the south and east. The jihadists remain deeply entrenched in Hadramawt province farther east where they have carried out a series of spectacular attacks in recent months. Washington regards the jihadist network's Yemen affiliate, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as its most dangerous, and has stepped up drone strikes against its leaders this year. |
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