[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Unidentified button men believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda have on Monday detonated a bomb near a military point in Mudiyah district of 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, southern Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
.Local sources said that the targeted military point belongs to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia, without giving details about the attack.
Other sources reported that the earth-shattering kaboom resulted from an attack that targeted a house of one of citizens with a hand grenade.
Al-Qaeda operatives are deployed extensively in a number of Abyan districts, mostly in Mudiyah, Lawdar, al-Khadira, and al-Mahfad, as well as large areas in Shabwah province.
Over the past weeks, al-Qaeda elements set up positions in al-Maja’lah area, east of Mudiyah in Abyan province.