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Al-Qaeda operatives escape to Oman
2012-06-27
[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda operatives have left Yemen to the neighboring state of Oman after they were attacked in South Yemen, an Omani newspaper said on Tuesday.
Betcha Sultan Caboose is cheezed...
The newspaper quoted the Secretary-General of the Foreign Minster Badar Al-Boseedi as saying that Al-Qaeda operatives infiltrated to Oman and actions were taken to pursue them.

He further said that the Omani authorities have not placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
any infiltrators so far, asserting that Omani authorities are alert, pointing out that the they contacted with neighboring states regarding the issue.

Yemen's army backed by rustics managed to defeat Ansar Al-Sharia beturbanned goons in attacks against their strongholds in South Yemen and some of the beturbanned goons escaped to the Omani borders.

Yemeni media sources said that Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons beat feet from Jaar and Zinjibar to some valleys 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 Emirate after 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...
and set up training camps there.

According to Akhbar Alyawam Newspaper, al-Qaeda beturbanned goons set up a training camp in an areas close to Al-Mahafad district of Abyan, indicating that a Saudi diplomat Abdullah Al-Khaldi and a Swiss teacher Sylvia Abrahat were transferred to this area.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!...

Yemeni officials said Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons implanted landmines before they fled from key southern strongholds, pointing out that they killed nearly 73 civilians over the past week.

Yemeni officials has made clear that engineering teams have removed some 3,000 land mines around the city and near the southern town of Jaar. The killed civilians were residents of the area.

The Yemeni army captured Jaar and Zinjibar after a two-month offensive to uproot al Qaeda gunnies from large swaths of land they captured during last year's political turmoil.

Posted by:Fred

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