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| Al-Qaeda claims Yemen series of attacks: report |
| 2010-09-09 |
| [Al Arabiya] Al-Qaeda said it carried out a series of attacks on security forces in Yemen, including deadly clashes in the restive south, a U.S.-based group that monitors Islamist websites reported. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the jihadist network's local affiliate, put out three statements saying that it was behind the violence, the SITE Intelligence Group said late on Tuesday. The gunnies said they carried out six recent attacks in Abyan province in the south, including an assault on an army post in the town of Jaar in late August in which 11 soldiers and a civilian were killed. They claimed the Aug. 27 assassination of Mohammed Faree, deputy director of criminal investigation unit in Marib, east of the capital Sanaa. And they claimed a prominent role in deadly clashes in the Abyan province town of Loder last month that exiled southern leaders had said involved autonomist and pro-independence muscle. Al-Qaeda said its gunnies killed 50 soldiers in the clashes and suffered no losses of their own. Three days of intense fighting in Loder killed at least 33 people, 19 of them bad boys, according to an AFP tally based on official and hospital reports. |
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