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2017-05-24 Arabia
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Yemeni tribal fighters kill US troops in Ma’rib
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[Iran Press TV] Yemeni tribal fighters have reportedly killed several American troops after they launched a heliborne attack on a village in Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib, a report says.
According to a report by Yemen's Khabar news agency website, at least 30 troops from the US and some Persian Gulf states, were deployed in the rural area of Khathla in the early hours of Tuesday and engaged in a shootout with fighters from two prominent tribes in the village.
It added that during the ensuing fierce battle at least seven of the invading troops were fatally injured, who had come there with the purported mission of gunning down snuffies belonging to the 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) Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group.
The report, however, added that no snuffies of the terror group were in the area when three Apache choppers and two military transport aircraft of the US approached the village.
Earlier in the day, Centcom, the US military command in the Middle East, however, told a totally different story, saying the heliborne attack concluded with killing of seven AQAP murderous Moslems, without mentioning any casualties from the American troops and the presence of soldiers from some Persian Gulf states.
| A totally different story, indeed. Kudos to Iran Press TV for being honest enough to mention it. |
However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
Pentagon front man Captain Jeff Davis later said at a presser that multiple American forces sustained injuries, but added that the wounds they had received were not serious enough to require medical evacuation.
According to Davis, the Tuesday attack was the first US ground assault in Ma’rib and its deepest in the Yemeni territories to purportedly target AQAP murderous Moslems.
| Another view of the festivities: |
US commandos capture 12 Al-Qaeda members alive in northeast Yemen
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian news agency, Sputnik Arabic, has revealed details of the attack conducted by US Navy Seals in Marib province in northeastern Yemen.
"The operation targeted 12 members of al-Qaeda (AQ), most of them Saudis, who had just arrived hours ago on two vehicles to the area of Khuthla, north of the Directorate of the Jubah in Marib coming from the province of Shabwa," agency reported quoting an unnamed security source.
The source explained to Sputnik that the US Marine Corps was able to capture "12 [AQ] elements after intensive raids by US drone aircraft, followed by two groups of US Special Forces landing from helicopters in the areas of Jaw Al Melah and Najd Maqad located in Khuthla district."
The source added that "violent confrontations broke out with local rustics who were sheltering AQ members. As a result, 5 tribal fighters were killed, 6 others maimed.
Iona Craig, a British freelance journalist reported earlier today on her Twitter page that "Five rustics amongst killed in US raid last night were not AQ. They were rustics of young activists who drove me from Mareb into Yakla."
The United States military said a raid against an al Qaeda compound 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...
on Tuesday morning (local time) killed seven bad boys, with two US officials saying the primary objective of the raid was to gather intelligence.
US Central Command said in a statement that the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula bully boyz were killed "through a combination of small arms fire and precision Arclight airstrikes" in the Marib governorate with the support of the Yemeni government. 
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