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| Yemen demands end of US drones |
| 2012-07-09 |
| [Yemen Post] Yemen has demanded the United States to end flying of US drones over towns that have been retaken from Al-AQaeda capture, political sources said on Sunday. The sources said the US agreed to temporary suspend the flying of its drones over Yemeni towns. According to an Emirati newspaper, Al-Khaleej, Yemen and the United States agree to end war against Al-Qaeda in those Yemeni areas cleansed from the thugs. The sources further said that the Yemeni government told the US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein its refusal to the continuity of drone raids. A suspected U.S. drone strike killed last Tuesday two al-Qaeda beturbanned goons in a car in Yemen's south. Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi said early of the current month that Yemen has asked for US drones to be used "in some cases" to target Al-Qaeda leaders in the country. The remark of Al-Qirbi was a first official Yemeni confirmation. In an interview with ABC television's US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... acknowledged the use of unmanned drones against Al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen, where such reports had not been confirmed. The Yemeni army in collaboration with US drones could dislodge Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons from their main hideouts in Zinjibar, Jaar and Shaqra 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. More than 150,000 Abyan residents were displaced last year after fleeing the war. They are currently living in shelters in neighboring Aden and Lahj provinces. Yemen President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... had vowed to defeat Al-Qaeda and enable the displaced persons to return to their homes. |
| Posted by:Fred |