A suicide kaboom in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Saturday maimed an army-linked militia commander involved in battling al-Qaeda, security sources said, in the fifth attempt on his life.The attacker went kaboom!" in front of the car of Abdel Latif Sayed, 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...
province commander for reserve forces fighting alongside the Yemeni army, wounding him and two others.
Hospital sources confirmed reports of the attack and witnesses said the bomber was blown apart.
The attack took place near Aden's security headquarters.
It was the fifth liquidation attempt on Sayed.
The reserve forces, called People's Committees, were involved in an all-out army offensive which drove al-Qaeda cut-throats from towns in Abyan province in mid-June.