Al-Qaeda has grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom that left a senior commander in the southern port city of Aden killed on Monday morning. Earlier the day, only a few hours after withdrawing from Azan, al-Qaeda stronghold in the southeastern province of Shabwa, a Somali national went kaboom!" and killed Salem Qatan, the commander of the Southern Military Region, as well as two of his guards.
Qatan has a major role in dislodging the forces of Evil from their strongholds in 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...
as the military troops under his command have been very active since he assumed his position two months ago.
In a statement of which BBC obtained a copy, al-Qaeda said that the attack is retaliation to the military campaign waged against its forces of Evil in Abyan's towns, vowing to target more officials in the days to come.
After it pulled out from the three key strongholds in Abyan province, al-Qaeda threatened to move the war to the capital and that it would chase the" crusaders --the leaders of the war against the terror network-- to their cities and palaces.