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| Drone strike kills 3 Qaeda suspects in Yemen |
| 2016-08-31 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A presumed US drone strike in southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... killed three Al-Qaeda suspects on Tuesday, a security official and a tribal source said. The strike hit a vehicle carrying the three alleged faceless myrmidons in the eastern suburbs of Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province, the official said. Two of the suspects who were maimed in the attack later shuffled off the mortal coil, a tribal source said, raising an earlier toll of one killed. The United States has carried out numerous drone strikes against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) operatives in Yemen. American officials said this month that the US military had killed three AQAP fighters in a strike, also in Shabwa. On Wednesday, drone strikes killed seven Al-Qaeda suspects in south and east Yemen. |
| Posted by:Fred |