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| Qaida Claims Yemen Attack on Advisers, U.S. Denies |
| 2012-05-22 |
| [An Nahar] Al-Qaeda snuffies on Monday claimed they raked with gunfire a convoy carrying four U.S. military advisers in Hudaida, but American officials said they had no such personnel in the west Yemen port city. Al-Qaeda said in a statement that jihadists had opened fire on Sunday on two cars carrying four American military advisers who were in the Red Sea city on a training mission with the Yemeni Coast Guard. The snuffies "opened fire on them as they left their hotel on their way to work," the thug group said, adding that the attackers were able to flee despite efforts by Yemeni security forces to cordon off the city. A local security official confirmed the attack took place, but gave no further details. The U.S. embassy in Sanaa however denied the presence of American military advisers in Hudaida. "Reports of U.S. military trainers in Hudaida are false," an embassy email said. Witnesses at the scene told Agence La Belle France Presse that three American military experts came under attack after leaving a local restaurant on Sunday. They said one man was critically maimed by a bullet to the neck. An Arab diplomat in Sanaa said that the Americans were immediately evacuated but gave no further details on their current location. U.S. military experts are assisting the Yemeni army in an all-out offensive launched on May 12 to oust al-Qaeda snuffies from the country's restive southern 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 where they have seized control of several towns and villages. So far, 213 people have been killed, according to a tally compiled by AFP, including 147 al-Qaeda gunnies, 31 military personnel, 18 local hard boyz and 17 civilians. |
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