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Arabia
More Militants Killed as War Explosive Remnants Continue to Kill Civilians in South Yemen
2012-07-05
[Yemen Post] Yemen's Air Force carried several Arclight airstrikes targeting suspected Al-Qaeda positions and forces of Evil 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 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 on Wednesday, weeks after the army drive forces of Evil out of this province, local security sources said.

"Four Arclight airstrikes were carried out on suspected places and hideouts to where Al-Qaeda members sought shelter after the offensive which killed hundreds of them including big shots in the past few months," the sources said.

"About twenty forces of Evil were killed and injured amid the ongoing hunt to clear 'every single cut-thoat of Al-Qaeda' from Abyan and nearby provinces," they continued.

In the past few months, the army with direct support from the US and tribal fighters launched an offensive driving Al-Qaeda forces of Evil out of their strongholds, seized last year, including the capital Zinjibar and killing hundreds.

On Tuesday, Arclight airstrikes targeted forces of Evil and their cars in nearby province of Shabwa, where the forces continued to pursue the cut-thoats, who fled Abyan, killing many of them and regaining control of their key stronghold of Azzan.

Separately, the defense ministry said three soldiers and five civilians including two children were killed in a kaboom in the Amain district in the Lawder town of Abyan on Wednesday.

The bomb was believed to be one of the remnants of the war between the army and Al-Qaeda.

Dozens of civilians have been killed in landmine kabooms in the past few weeks when many displaced families started to return to their homes and villages.

The authorities, however, have warned the families not to rush coming back to Zinjibar until all landmines, which were planted by cut-thoats, are completely removed. More recently, the authorities sought help from the GCC countries to remove landmines to return the situation to normal in Abyan, saying the return of the displaced is a top priority.

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