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Fighters blast Al-Qaeda's weapon stocks  
2012-05-24
[Yemen Post] Yemen's air fighters blasted on Wednesday Al-Qaeda weapon stocks and hideouts close to Jaar town, military sources affirmed.

The sources said that the Yemeni army could recapture a number of positions that was controlled by Ansar Al-Sharaia in Zinjibar.

The army have been trying for two weeks to enter Zinjibar and Jaar and eliminate Al-Qaeda Death Eaters.

Clashes were resumed after two days of an uneasy calm due to the suicide kaboom that killed about 96 soldiers and maimed hundreds others in Sana'a.

Military sources told Yemen Post that the army could recapture the strategic Altabah Al-Hamra, an area nearby Zinjibar, pointing out that two troops were killed and four others were maimed.

They also said thon the lam numbers of the faceless myrmidons were killed in the west of Zinjibar.

The sources anticipated that the army might cleanse the forces of Evil form Zinjibar within two days.

Other sources said that at least seven soldiers were killed in Al-Jablian, an area close to Jaar, as the army sought to advance to Jaar.

Local sources said that air forces raided the coastal city of Shaqra and some areas of Wadi Jar, an area close to Lawdar district.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) grabbed credit for the attack and said it targeted "the defense minister and other leaders of the US war" on the southern 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 Emirate after 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...
province.

A jacket wallah, who was a soldier in the Yemen army, detonated a bomb in Al Sabeen Square in Sanaa during a military parade rehearsal on Monday that killed the troops and injured 300 more.

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