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| Qaida Suspects Kill Five Yemen Soldiers |
| 2011-12-05 |
| [An Nahar] Five Yemeni soldiers were killed in an attack by al-Qaeda suspects on their post near the southern restive city of Zinjibar in Abyan province, a military official told Agence La Belle France Presse on Sunday. "Al-Qaeda Death Eaters attacked a military barracks using rocket propelled grenades and machineguns east of Zinjibar... killing five soldiers" late on Saturday, the official said. A medic at the military hospital in the main southern city of Aden confirmed that the facility had received the bodies of five soldiers. The deaths were the latest in a string of casualties in Abyan. Government forces are struggling to wrest control of at least three provincial cities, including Zinjibar, that since May have fallen to al-Qaeda-linked Death Eaters known as the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law). Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its local affiliates have taken advantage of the government's distraction with 10 months of protests against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh to strengthen their hold on the country's south. Despite months of festivities, government troops have so far been unable to win back full control of Abyan. |
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