[Yemen Post] A senior Al-Qaeda leader was killed on Tuesday in an intelligence operation in an area located between governorates of Marib and Al-Jawaf. The Yemeni News Agency(Saba) said that Muqbil Al-Omda who was the financial official of al-Qaea and the fourth-most wanted man was killed.
The source did not mention the time of the operation, but it said that the security intelligence made a progress in killing most leaders of Al-Qaeda.
A US drone had raided on Sunday a car convey in Wadi Abidah of Marib, 20 kilometers away of the city of Marib, leaving three persons killed.
The United States launches from time to time strikes against Yemeni areas, and it says that it raids strongholds of Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
According to Yemen's Defense Ministry, most veteran leaders of Al-Qaeda were killed and some others could escape outside the governorate of 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 Emirateafter 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...
Local sources affirmed that the Yemeni army could control on the southeast of the town and could reach to the hear of the town after air-fighters launched strikes on the town.
The Defense Ministry affirmed that it will expand it operations to purge Abyan of Al-Qaeda, ensure the return of the displaced persons, and resume security and stability to the city.
Gerald Feierstein, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, during a presser at the embassy on Sunday attributed the army's progress to changes made by President Abdurabu Mansur Hadi in the military's leadership.
Meanwhile,
...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility...
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Ropert Muleler arrived in Sana'a on Tuesday and discussed with Yemen's president efforts of counterterrorism, in particular fighting against Al-Qaeda.