Yemeni military officials say 21 al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti have been killed in a southern province where the Islamists took advantage of the country's political turmoil last year to seize entire cities.Officials say 13 al-Qaeda gunnies were killed in festivities with troops outside the city of Jaar.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations, say six more died fighting troops in 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...
's capital of Zinjibar Sunday. The military has not yet fully reclaimed the city in its offensive.
Two other Islamic fascisti were killed in al-Code when troops shelled their car.
Also, the U.S. Embassy in Yemen says Washington is providing another $6.5 million in aid to the impoverished Arab country, bringing the total of U.S. humanitarian assistance to Yemen to $80 million this year.