[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A leader affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s factions was injured on Wednesday, in a kaboom of a landmine in the province 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...
, 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...
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Pro-STC Media sources reported that the chief of staff of the so-called "Second Battalion in the Sixth Support Brigade," Mahmoud Braber, was maimed in a kaboom of a landmine he attempted to dismantle in Wadi Omran in the district of Mudiyah east of the city of Zinjibar, the bucolic provincial capital.
According to the sources, Braber fired at the landmine to detonate it and neutralize its effect, but unidentified individuals remotely executed the detonation of the landmine.
He was then transferred to one of the hospitals in Aden, the sources said.