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Three Foreign Militants Reportedly Dead in Yemen Raid
2012-09-07
[Yemen Post] Three foreign Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons were among those who were killed in a dronezap an Arclight airstrike in Yemen's eastern Hadramout
...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard...
province early on Wednesday, News Yemen reported quoting statements by local security sources.

The authorities are trying to identify the killed beturbanned goons whose home was raided in the Wadi Ein in Hawra, the officials said, according to the website.

The home was completely destroyed and its owner was identified as a young man named: Murad Yaslim, it added.

The defense ministry's mouthpiece, the September 26 website, said others were maimed in the strike which comes amid an ongoing massive hunt for Al-Qaeda operatives across the republic.

The Yemeni army launched in April-May a US-backed offensive and drove Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons out of their strongholds 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...
and Shabwa provinces. Hundreds of beturbanned goons including big shots were killed in the offensive.

During the hunt for the remaining bully boys, tens of suspected beturbanned goons and cells have been locked away
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
so far in main cities including the capital Sanaa.

Posted by:Fred

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