[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda Death Eaters have seized hospitals in southern Yemen to treat maimed comrades following blistering air strikes that killed scores of gunnies in two days, medics said Thursday.An intensive aerial campaign by U.S. drones and Yemeni jet fighters on al-Qaeda bases in the rugged mountains of nearby 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...
province killed some 70 Death Eaters over the weekend.
On Sunday, Death Eaters stormed the hospital of Azzan, in Shabwa province, as well as two smaller medical centers in nearby districts, the sources said.
They counted experienced doctors among their number, who tended the maimed.
"They forced us out of the centers along with other members of staff and brought in their maimed," a doctor at a medical center in the town of Al-Saeed told Agence La Belle France Presse.
After the raids, Death Eaters arrived with casualties in pick-up trucks, accompanied by "several doctors, including Arabs and foreigners," he said.