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| Qaida Rocket Attack Kills 3 Yemeni Troops |
| 2014-12-01 |
| [AnNahar] Al-Qaeda Lions of Islam have killed three soldiers with a rocket in Yemen's eastern province of Hadramawt, a security official said on Sunday. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) confirmed on Twitter it "targeted an army vehicle... heading from Shibam to Seyun in Hadramawt, destroying it and killing the three soldiers on board". The attack using rocket-propelled grenades took place late on Saturday, the security official said. Al-Qaeda is active in southern and eastern Yemen, especially in Hadramawt where the authority of the central government is weak. AQAP, seen by the United States as the Lion of Islam network's deadliest branch, killed 20 soldiers in an attack in Hadramawt last month. Yemen is a key U.S. ally in the fight against Al-Qaeda, allowing Washington to conduct a longstanding drone war against the group on its territory. AQAP was born out of a 2009 merger between its franchises in Al-Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... 's native Soddy Arabia ...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 the Soddy national face... and his ancestral homeland in Yemen. The group has exploited instability in the impoverished country since a 2011 uprising forced 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... to step down. |
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