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| 18 'Qaida' Gunmen, 10 Yemeni Soldiers Killed in Clashes |
| 2014-08-07 |
| [AnNahar] Ten Yemeni soldiers and 18 suspected al-Qaeda Lions of Islam were killed Wednesday in confrontations in three provinces, security officials and the defense ministry said. Five soldiers were killed in an ambush in the southern province of Shabwa in the third attack of its kind this month blamed by security officials on the jihadists. "Gunmen probably belonging to al-Qaeda opened fire on an army vehicle in Habban in Shabwa province, killing five soldiers and wounding another," a security official said. He added that the attackers then escaped. Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... two soldiers were killed and two maimed in a clash with gunnies in Sayun, in the southeastern Hadramawt province, another security official said. The official said the "Qaeda gunnies" confronted forces from the 135th Armoured Brigade on their way towards the city, which is a stronghold of al-Qaeda. The army is reinforcing its presence on the outskirts of Sayun in preparation for an imminent operation against hard boys, the official said. The defense ministry said "18 members of al-Qaeda" were killed in this confrontation, adding that several others were captured, including a Saudi. Assailants suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda also rubbed out three members of the interior ministry's Special Forces in an ambush in Rada, in the central Baida province, a security official said. Six other personnel were maimed, he said. On Monday, four soldiers died in a ambushes in Hadramawt, and four coppers were killed on Saturday in an attack on a checkpoint in Shabwa. Security services also blamed the two earlier attacks on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which has been branded by Washington as the Death Eater network's deadliest franchise. In late April, the army launched a ground offensive against AQAP in Shabwa and 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... provinces. The group is active across several parts of Yemen, taking advantage of a collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that ousted veteran president 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.... |
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