[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallah rammed an explosives-packed car into a Yemeni army checkpoint Friday, killing nine soldiers, a military source said, blaming Al-Qaeda for the attack.Elsewhere, Riyadh said four Saudi security personnel were killed in cross-border rocket fire and shelling, while Yemeni sources said nine rebels were killed in festivities with pro-government forces in Dhaleh province.
The suicide kaboom took place near the city of Qoton in southeastern Yemen's vast desert province of Hadramawt, where 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) operates.
The source said the dead soldiers were members of the army's First Division, loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
Hadi was forced out of the country earlier this year after Shiite Houthis seized the capital and large chunks of Yemen.
Separately, the source said AQAP murderous Moslems flogged eight people in the Hadramawt historic provincial capital of Mukalla, a port city of more than 200,000 people that they control.
Charged with offences including adultery and drug and alcohol use, the eight received between 80 and 100 lashes each in a punishment carried out in a public square before hundreds of witnesses.
In March, a Saudi-led coalition launched an air campaign against the Huthis and allied forces loyal to former 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...
in a bid to restore the authority of Hadi, who has taken refuge in Riyadh.