[Yemen Post] Officials confirmed late on Monday that Yemen authorized a US drone to strike a vehicle believed to be transporting terror snuffies as it was travelling through the eastern province of Hadhramawt.Ever since Islamists were driven out of the southern 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...
in 2012, where they had established several strongholds, the group had attempted to use unrest and popular resentment in this fief of the Southern Secessionist Movement to set up new bases.
This has translated on the ground into a surge in violence, targeted-killings and acts of sabotage.
The missile killed all three passengers upon impact. The faceless myrmidons were, according to reports, driving in the al-Qatan district when they were struck by a missile.
"The vehicle and its occupants were completely burned," an official told Rooters.
Although drones have grown increasingly unpopular over the past months, as civilian casualties and deaths have piled up, making Yemenis rather uneasy as to the real benefits of those unmanned planes in terms of counter-terrorism, especially since security experts have often argue that drones have actually played into al-Qaeda narrative and antagonized local populations.
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slammed Yemen coalition government last August when it revealed that according its findings dozens of civilians, amongst whom many women and kiddies had perished in America's war against terror in Yemen.
Officials warned under cover of anonymity that Yemen would be likely to authorize many more US-led drone strikes after last Wednesday's kaboom against the Defence Ministry as to send a clear message to radical Islamists in the region.