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| 42 Killed in Abyan Al-Qaeda Fighting |
| 2011-08-26 |
| [Yemen Post] At least 42 have been killed in the ongoing festivities against suspected al-Qaeda snuffies in Yemen's southern Abyan province on Tuesday and Wednesday. A security bigshot in Abyan told Yemen Post that most of the killed have been from the thugs. "A large number of the deaths are thugs, though the government lost more than a dozen of its troops over the last 24 hours." Twenty seven of the killed in the province since Tuesday morning have been from the al-Qaeda thug lines while 16 were maimed. Tribal fighters loyal to the government said that six fighters where injured in Shaqra district when a road side bomb went kaboom!. Fighters said that al-Qaeda has lost hundreds of its followers in the Abyan war since mid July, but complained that reinforcements reach the snuffies every time they fall behind. Clashes escalated over the last week in Abyan after government forces announced that it hoped to end festivities in the province before the end of the fasting month of Ramadhan. Ali Anesi, Head of the national security in Yemen said that at least 80 big shots of al-Qaeda organization hae been killed in the Abyan fighting, and that fighters from numerous nationalities were among the dead. |
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