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| Pro-Regime Gunmen Kill 12 'Qaida' Militants in Yemen |
| 2012-05-05 |
| [An Nahar] Pro-government gunnies fighting al-Qaeda alongside the Yemeni army have killed 12 suspected snuffies as jihadists attacked the southern town of Loder, one of the fighters said on Friday. "Two vehicles were destroyed and 12 fighters killed" late Thursday by the gunnies, he told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding the snuffies had attacked the southern entrance to the town in restive 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... province. The gunnies, who belong to the so-called Popular Resistance Committees, were supported by army artillery as they pushed the snuffies back, the fighter said. He added that four civilians were maimed when two mortars fired by al-Qaeda suspects struck Loder. Al-Qaeda seized Loder in August 2010, but the army eventually drove it out. Loder lies 150 kilometers northeast of Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, which was overrun last May by the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), an affiliate of al-Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula. |
| Posted by:Fred |