"Unknown gunnies opened fire on Aden's intelligence chief, General Ghazi Ahmed Ali, as he was returning from work late on Tuesday, wounding two of his
It was the third such attempt to kill Ali.
In October, al-Qaeda grabbed credit of one of the attempts in a statement issued from southeastern Shebwa province, one of its strongholds in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its local affiliates, the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), have taken advantage of a year of deadly protests against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...to bolster their presence in Shebwa and nearby Marib.
Abyan province in the south has meanwhile been the main target of al-Qaeda's growing strength, with gun-hung tough guys seizing the scenic provincial capital Zinjibar in May and several other towns since.
In a significant advance by the Death Eaters towards the capital on Sunday, al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys swept into the town of Rada, 130 kilometers southeast of Sanaa, and overran it within hours.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as
America's Blond Eminenceand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another John Foster Dulles...
on Tuesday described the unrest in Yemen as a "major concern."