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| Nearly 25.000 troops battle Al-Qaeda in Abyan |
| 2012-05-14 |
| [Yemen Post] About 25.000 Yemeni troops take part in a large-scale military campaign against Al-Qaeda in some towns 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... governorate, military sources said. According to Al-Masdar Online, about eight brigades of the Southern Military Region are fighting al-Qaeda with the aim of recapturing some towns controlled by the terrorist group. The brigades started on Saturday its military campaign against Zinjibar and Jaar, two town Al-Qaeda took control on them one year ago, the sources reiterated. The military carries out a plan prepared by Yemeni and American experts, and Yemen's air and marine forces take part in the campaign, the sources pointed out. They said that President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... approved the military plan that is under the control of senior military commanders including Minister of Defense Mohammad Nasser Ahmed. The sources affirmed the military advanced on two fronts amid air cover in fighting that killed six soldiers in two days, affirming that military units attacked Jaar from the west and that the troops could reach some outskirts of the town. Yemen President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi vowed early of May that he will defeat Al-Qaeda. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Al-Qaeda attacked military positions hours after his address, killed and captured dozens of Yemeni troops. Yemen's Chief of Staff Ahmed Ali Al-Ashwal met on Sunday with chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle?... , John Brennan. According to the military-run 26 September, both officials discussed mutual relationships and cooperation's between the Yemeni and US militaries, in particular counter-terrorism. Sources had told Yemen Post that the United States sent nearly 45 counter-terror trainers to Yemen this week in an effort to strengthen the Yemeni government's ability to fight al-Qaeda. |
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