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| Two Gunmen Killed in Clash with Yemen Police |
| 2014-07-04 |
| [AnNahar] Gunmen attacked a government complex Thursday in Yemen's central province of Baida, an al-Qaeda stronghold, sparking a firefight that killed two assailants and maimed three coppers, the defense ministry reported. "An armed terrorist group" attacked the complex where the residence of Baida deputy governor Sinan Halqum is also located, the ministry's 26sep.net news website cited an army front man as saying. The front man gave no further details about the assailants he labelled "terrorists", a term Yemeni authorities generally use for members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is frequently blamed for most anti-government attacks. Taking advantage of a collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that forced veteran strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... from power, AQAP seized swathes of south and east Yemen. According to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally compiled from official and other sources, Yemeni security forces lost 374 personnel battling al-Qaeda, northern rebels and southern separatists as well as in targeted liquidations during the first half of 2014. |
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