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| Qaida Suspects Kill Pro-Army Militiaman In South Yemen |
| 2013-07-21 |
| [AnNahar] Al-Qaeda suspects rubbed out a member of a Yemeni pro-army militia that had backed a military offensive against the network last year, a police official said on Saturday. "Suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies riding in a vehicle rubbed out Mohammed Abbad, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees in the town of Mudia" in the southern 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 official said. The attack took place late on Friday near and the assailants "fled to an unknown location," the official added. The Yemeni army launched a month-long offensive in May last year against Al-Qaeda hard boyz in the southern Abyan province with the help of local rustics and residents. The army, backed by U.S. drone attacks, managed to retake control of the country's south, of which large swathes of land had been seized by Al-Qaeda bully boys. The network has been weakened but still carries out hit-and-run attacks against army and police targets and occasionally assassinates members and leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees. |
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