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| Drone Strikes Kills 'Qaida Militants' in Yemen |
| 2013-05-19 |
| [Naharnet] An apparent U.S. drone attack has killed four suspected al-Qaeda forces of Evil in southern Yemen and destroyed an explosives-packed truck, tribal sources said on Saturday. They occurred on Friday night in Al-Mahfad region 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, the sources said. The truck was carrying grenades and boom belts, and the attack destroyed the weapons and killed the vehicle's four occupants, "members of al-Qaeda," one of the sources said. A local dignitary confirmed to Agence La Belle France Presse that four people were killed but was unable to say whether they were Islamist myrmidons. The United States has increasingly deployed unmanned aircraft against al-Qaeda targets in Yemen, which shelters what Washington regards as the jihadist network's most dangerous branch -- al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). In April, a security official and a witness reported that three suspected al-Qaeda forces of Evil were killed in a drone attack in Wadi Abida, in the eastern province of Marib. U.S. drones strikes in Yemen nearly surged from 18 to 53 last year, according to the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank. Yemeni national security chief Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi said in January that drone attacks would continue in cooperation with the United States. Al-Qaeda loyalists seized large swathes of the south and east in 2011, taking advantage of a decline in central government control during an 11-month uprising that forced veteran president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... from power. Governments troops have since recaptured much of the territory with support from U.S. drone strikes, but the jihadists retain bases in the desert east. |
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