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| Drone Kills Five Qaida Suspects in Yemen Stronghold |
| 2015-08-28 |
| [AnNahar] An apparent U.S. drone strike killed five al-Qaeda suspects in the Lion of Islam network's southeastern stronghold of Mukalla, a government official said Thursday. "A drone targeted a house where al-Qaeda snuffies were gathered for a meeting, destroying it and killing all five inside" late on Wednesday, said the local official, who asked to remain anonymous. The United States is the only country known to operate armed drones over Yemen, and strikes on snuffies have continued during months of fighting between pro-government forces and Iran-backed Iranian catspaws. 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), viewed by Washington as the network's most dangerous branch, has taken advantage of the chaos to seize Mukalla, capital of the vast desert province of Hadramawt. Four other suspected al-Qaeda snuffies were killed in a similar raid on Saturday in Mukalla. The group said in June that its leader in Yemen, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, had been killed in a drone strike. Officials said this week that the snuffies had deployed in force across Mukalla in anticipation of a possible operation by the Saudi-led military coalition to help government loyalists retake the picturesque provincial capital. The coalition of Arab states has been carrying out air strikes against the pro-Iranian Houthis 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... since March, but has so far not intervened against al-Qaeda. |
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