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| Yemen Kills 5 'Qaida' in Raid on Arms Convoy |
| 2014-05-14 |
| [An Nahar] Yemen's air force killed five suspected Al-Qaeda forces of Evil in a raid Tuesday on a convoy carrying weapons and ammunition, a local government official told AFP. The assault comes as part of a major anti-Qaeda offensive launched on April 29. "A three-truck convoy belonging to Al-Qaeda was targeted by the Yemeni air force in Bayhan, a road linking Shabwa and Marib" provinces, the official said. "The cargo caught fire and five Al-Qaeda forces of Evil were killed," the source said. Witnesses added that, shortly after the raid, a Yemeni helicopter landed at the site of the blast and tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a primitive who was searching for undamaged weapons among the rubble. On Monday, a drone strike killed six Al-Qaeda suspects in Marib. The army says it has inflicted heavy losses on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), seen by the U.S. as the network's deadliest franchise, over the past two weeks. The interior ministry said this week that checkpoints were set up around the provinces of Sanaa, Ibb, Baida, Lahij and Marib to prevent the entry of jihadists fleeing the offensive focused on Shabwa 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... -- both in the south. |
| Posted by:Fred |