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| Qaida Suspects Kill Yemen Air Force Pilot |
| 2015-02-14 |
| [AnNahar] Al-Qaeda suspects rubbed out a Yemeni military pilot in the south Friday, a day after Death Eaters launched a deadly attack on an army base and seized heavy weaponry, officials said. "Gunmen on a cycle of violence shot up air force Colonel Mahmoud al-Naqib, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool," an official in the southern province of Lahij told AFP, adding that the assailants fled. The attack was carried out by Death Eaters "suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda," the official added. Farther east on the border between the provinces of Marib and Shabwa, troops of the 119th Infantry Brigade which was attacked on Thursday by Al-Qaeda handed over their remaining arms to local tribes and withdrew from the area, local officials said. Twelve soldiers and 15 Death Eaters were killed as Al-Qaeda seized the brigade's camp at Baihan in Shabwa province and captured armor and heavy weaponry, a military official said. Another official said the jihadists took "30 tanks, 90 military vehicles, 25 armored vehicles and 28 artillery pieces". The Death Eaters later handed over the camp to tribes but kept the heavy weapons, officials said. |
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