[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A security commander in the "Security Belt" factions affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), was assassinated on Wednesday in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province, southern 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...
, local sources said.
According to the sources, unknown button men believed to belong to al-Qaeda targeted a vehicle of the security belt sector’s commander, Salem Ali Sal’an in the coastal area of Shuqra, with an bomb while he was passing on the main road, which led to his death instantly.
The attack also resulted in the injury of eight of his lover companions, the sources said.
The sources added that the earth-shattering kaboom came after an attempt to assassinate the commander, Fadl Baash, who was appointed by the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition as commander of the "Special Forces" in the center of the city of Zinjibar of Abyan, with a boom-mobile last week. 
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