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| Yemen Army kills 8 Qaida Militants |
| 2012-05-04 |
| [An Nahar] Yemeni soldiers killed eight al-Qaeda Death Eaters as they tried to attack an army post in the southern province 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... on Thursday, the defence ministry said. "Eight al-Qaeda Death Eaters were killed and others maimed" when army forces "foiled their attack" against a military post near Bajdar on the outskirts of the picturesque provincial capital Zinjibar, the ministry's website 26sep.net said. On Monday, fierce festivities killed at least 21 people, including 18 al-Qaeda bad boys, near Abyan's town of Loder, which jihadists are trying to capture. The army has been battling al-Qaeda bad boys, who have renamed themselves as the "Partisans of Sharia" (Islamic law), for control of Zinjibar for nearly a year. The jihadists have expanded their control over Yemen's lawless southern and eastern provinces, taking advantage of a weakened central government in Sanaa and months of political upheaval. The beturbanned goons intensified their attacks on the security forces after President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi took office in February pledging to hunt down the bad boys. |
| Posted by:Fred |