The Yemeni army managed to retake control of a key ammunition factory called 7 October located in the southern trouble-torn province 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...
, leaving at least 25 faceless myrmidons killed, local sources told the local news website al-Masdar on Monday.
The troops assisted by the tribal militias, which were formed to help the army kick the faceless myrmidons out from Zinjubar and Ja'ar, regained control over the key ammunition factory after fierce festivities with the bad boys, the sources said.
The sources, according to al-Masdar, added that the calashes erupted in the early hours of Monday and lasted until 10 a.m. The army troops advanced towards Ja'ar and they are positioned at its entrances ready to storm the town. They noted that at least 4 soldiers were killed and two others maimed. War planes accompanied with heavy artillery shelling on the bad boys' hideouts helped the troops advance and achieve progress in the battles which forced thousands of families to evacuate their homes.
Two civilians were maimed as a result of the army air strikes, according to the sources. The army has stepped up its operations in Abyan with the aim of eliminating the al-Qaeda-linked faceless myrmidons in Abyan,
Being significantly hit by the intensive army attacks, al-Qaeda resorted to carrying out deadly suicide kabooms, which left hundreds of soldiers killed and others maimed. Last month,the terror network grabbed credit for a suicide attack in Sana'a. The deadly attack left more than 100 soldiers performing rehearsals for a parade killed and other 300 maimed.