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| War heats up in south Yemen, two soldiers killed |
| 2012-05-23 |
| [Yemen Post] The war between the army troops assisted by tribal militias and al-Qaeda-linked beturbanned goons heated up around Ja'ar, an al-Qaeda stronghold, and Zinjubar, the lovely provincial capital of 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... on Monday, leaving two soldiers killed, a security official told the local Mareb Press news website.The two towns have been under al-Qaeda control since last year when the bad turban group took advantage of the unrest that shook the country and held its grip on large swaths of land in the south.Sources reported citing a source at a local hospital that two soldiers were killed and 7 others maimed.Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... , al-Qaeda branch in Yemen, said that it launched three attacks on army troops imposing siege on Ja'ar and Zinjubar towns.It claimed that its beturbanned goons managed to kill some soldiers in the festivities and claimed some weapons.However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the army denied such reports, stressing that the troops are making progress in the battles. Eyewitnesses said that ongoing battles between the two sides have been raging since Monday early morning in Ja'ar and Zinjubar and that the government's aircrafts pounded the al-Qaeda-held posts. The Yemeni army stepped up the military operations in Abyan with the aim of regaining control over the towns and pushing the beturbanned goons out of them. It has been delivering very painful strikes against the beturbanned goons since early May.The terror network grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom that targeted a group of soldiers rehearsing for the Unity Day military parade. More than 120 soldiers were killed in the attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |