Al-Qaeda hard boyz set off a boom-mobile inside an army base in southern Yemen at dawn on Friday, killing at least 14 soldiers, military officials said.The hard boyz drove through several checkpoints before entering the base of the Yemeni army's 115th brigade 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...
province, where a drone raid killed at least seven Al-Qaeda members the day before, one official told AFP.
"Four members of Al-Qaeda with boom belts... traveling in a military vehicle managed to pass through several army checkpoints to reach the camp" at Shaqra, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the Abyan capital Zinjibar, another said.
"Two soldiers were killed at the entrance of the base by the assailants who then continued their journey to the camp where three of the four occupants got out of their vehicle, while the driver went kaboom!"," said the official.
In all 14 soldiers were killed and 10 others maimed.
The army killed two of the hard boyz who got out of the vehicle, while a third one managed to escape on foot, officials said, adding that a manhunt was underway.
The attack came 24 hours after rockets fired from a drone near the southern city of Jaar killed at least seven suspected members of the terror network, including a local leader, an official in the restive region said.