[Yemen Post] Three Al-Qaeda operatives including two Saudis were killed and a key leader injured in an ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
, the state-owned September 26 website reported on Sunday.
The site quoted the governor of Saada, Faris Manaa, as saying Omer Saleh Batais, one of the most wanted leaders of Al-Qaeda, was injured in the strike in the Wadi Al Abu Jabara area.
"Batais had hid the operatives inside his house," he said.
The two Saudis, not named, were responsible for financing terrorist operations in some Yemeni provinces, he said, pointing out the targeted operatives had tried for more than five years to make the Wadi Al Abu Jabara area as a transit route for gun-hung tough guys to infiltrate into the provinces of Marib, Shabwa, Jawf and 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...
Yemen's army launched earlier this year a US-backed offensive and drove Al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys out of their strongholds, which were seized during the 2011 uprising in Abyan and Shabwa.
In the meantime, the army is continuing a massive hunt for the remaining operatives across the republic, with tens of gun-hung tough guys including big shots and cells tossed in the calaboose
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in recent months.
US drones have largely contributed to targeting many krazed killers, mainly wanted leaders.