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| Yemen Navy Admiral Escapes Qaida Attack, Guards Killed |
| 2014-03-05 |
| [An Nahar] A Yemeni navy admiral escaped an liquidation attempt Tuesday in the south of the country blamed on al-Qaeda, but two of his guards were killed, a military source said. Admiral Kassem Labbuza, who heads a force charged with protecting the Balhaf port on the Gulf of Aden, was unharmed in the attack near a gas complex, the source said. Two of his guards were killed, however, and a third maimed before the assailants identified as "al-Qaeda members" expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. The attack occurred during a security inspection of the site. Al-Qaeda has been blamed by the authorities for numerous attacks against energy facilities and soldiers in south Yemen, a stronghold of the bully boys. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... tribal sources said six soldiers were freed after being kidnapped when their plane, a Russian-made Antonov AN-26, made an emergency landing in the country's southeast. |
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