[Pak Daily Times] Yemeni aircraft bombed al Qaeda positions in southern Yemen on Sunday, a government official said, after cut-throats ambushed a tank column, killing four soldiers.
Three suspected members of al Qaeda's regional wing were also killed in the clashes on Sunday in the Mudiyah district in Abyan province on the Arabian Sea coast, where the army has battled cut-throats in recent months, the official told Rooters.
On Saturday, a car bomb maimed a senior intelligence officer and his assistant in Abyan, a security source said, and a government website said two cut-throats died in a botched suicide kaboom with a car on a security patrol in Mudiyah. Mudiyah's police chief was killed in a suspected al Qaeda attack last week and the provincial governor survived an assassination attempt. Yemen is trying to quell a resurgent branch of al Qaeda that has increased attacks on Western and regional targets in the Arabian Peninsula state, next to oil giant Saudi Arabia.
It is also trying to cement a truce with sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians to end a civil war in the north that has raged on and off since 2004, and to end a separatist rebellion in the south. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an arm of al Qaeda thought to be include Yemenis and Saudis, has stepped up attacks on Yemeni and Western targets since it claimed a failed US airliner bombing in December. 
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