| Submit your comments on this article |
| Arabia |
| Two Qaida Suspects Killed in Yemen Drone Attack |
| 2015-04-18 |
| [AnNahar] Two suspected al-Qaeda gunnies were killed overnight in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in a drone strike believed to have been carried out by the United States, a tribal source said on Friday. The late night strike targeted a vehicle in Habban, southeast of Ataq, the main town in southern Shabwa province. It "killed the two occupants, two members of al-Qaeda," said the source, identifying one of the victims as Khaled Atef, a cousin of the province's al-Qaeda chief. Al-Qaeda gunnies have exploited the breakdown of security since a Saudi-led coalition launched an air war last month against Iranian catspaws fighting Yemeni forces. Among its gains, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) has seized almost all of Mukalla, the capital of Hadramawt province. United States Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said last week that al-Qaeda was seizing terrain during the chaos in Yemen, but vowed that Washington would continue to combat the turban group. Qaida Takes Key Yemen Army Camp, Heavy Weapons [AnNahar] Al-Qaeda bully boyz in southeast Yemen on Friday seized heavy weapons as they overran a key camp in Hadramawt lovely provincial capital Mukalla, consolidating their grip on the city, an official said. "Today Al-Qaeda gunnies took control of the 27th Mechanized Brigade's camp and seized heavy weapons including tanks and artillery," the official told AFP, confirming that Al-Qaeda now controlled all of Mukalla a day after seizing its airport. Residents of the city confirmed the camp had been seized "without resistance". Until Friday, the camp in eastern Mukalla had remained loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour al-Hadi and was the only military site not taken over by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The jihadist network's powerful Yemeni branch took advantage of the growing chaos in the country to target Mukalla, a city of more than 200,000. It attacked on April 2 and in less than 24 hours seized key areas and freed more than 300 prisoners, including one of its leaders. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |