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Al-Qaida Yemen Offshoot Claims Murder of Huthi Official

2015-03-21

[AnNahar] Al-Qaeda's Yemen affiliate grabbed credit for the murder of an award-winning journalist turned top official of the Shiite Huthi militia, the group said Thursday on Twitter. The claim was made by Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , or Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), which is linked to the Sunni Lion of Islam 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). A brief statement on Twitter said two snuffies of the group riding cycle of violences opened fire on Abdul Karim al-Khiwani on Wednesday near his home in the centre of Sanaa, before fleeing. Khiwani was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Huthis that control Sanaa and had been head of the militia's media department. In 2008 he was awarded the Amnesia Amnesty International Special Award for Human Rights Journalism under threat. Amnesty has denounced the "despicable killing of a leading journalist and activist," saying Khiwani had a history of being harassed for his "outspoken journalism and peaceful activism", and called for a probe. The United States considers the Yemen-based AQAP the most dangerous branch of the global jihadist network.

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Qaeda gunmen kill 7 police in Yemen

2012-08-02

[Bangla Daily Star] Al-Qaeda forces of Evil killed seven coppers yesterday in an attack on a checkpoint in Yemen's southeast, a security official said, a day after festivities between the army and forces of Evil left 40 dead. "A group of al-Qaeda gunnies in two vehicles opened machinegun fire on a checkpoint, killing seven coppers" in Shibam, a town in the province of Hadramawt, the official told AFP. Al-Qaeda-linked forces of Evil from the group Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law) have launched a wave of attacks in the region since former 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... handed power to his deputy, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, in February.

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Yemen Says Arrests Cell behind Deadly Parade Suicide Bombing

2012-06-30

[Yemen Post] The Yemeni authorities tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the terrorist cell behind the suicide kaboom which killed and injured more than 400 soldiers during a parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa in May, the 26 September weekly reported Thursday, quoting a statement by chief of the national security. General Ali Muhammad Al-Anesi was quoted as saying "the security authorities tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the terrorist cell of the Partisans of Sharia Law, Yemen Al-Qaeda's offshoot, which carried out the deadly attack". Al-Anesi did not give more details, according to the paper. On May 21, a jacket wallah infiltrated into Al-Sabeen Square in downtown Sanaa where units of military and security were conducting a parade rehearsal and below himself up killing more than one hundred central security forces. More than three hundred others were maimed. Later, Al-Qaeda grabbed credit for the attack, which coincided with severe blows it was receiving under a US-backed offensive in the southern 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 Emirate after 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. In association with tribal fighters, the army could drive Al-Qaeda snuffies from Abyan province and nearby areas after hundreds of them including big shots had been killed and injured during the offensive. In the meantime, Al-Qaeda has vowed to retaliate through attacking US and key Yemeni targets, with several suicide kabooms reported recently including the one killing commander of the southern military region who led the offensive.

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Yemen Troops Launch Offensive on Zinjibar

2012-05-13

[An Nahar] Yemeni troops launched an all-out offensive on Saturday to retake the southern city of Zinjibar, held for a year by al-Qaeda gunnies, in fighting that killed 12 people, military and local sources said. The "wide offensive" began from three sides and is supported by the air force and the navy," said a military official, adding that Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed is supervising the operation from nearby. "The defense minister is supervising a military plan to regain control of the city of Zinjibar and (the neighboring town of) Jaar from al-Qaeda gunnies," the official said. Two soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in the fighting, while 12 others were maimed, he said. Six fighters of the al-Qaeda-linked Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), were also killed in the attack, said a tribal source in Jaar, to where the gunnies evacuate their casualties. The beturbanned goons took control of Zinjibar, the picturesque provincial capital 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 Emirate after 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... , last May. They also control Jaar and other parts of the province. Military units also attacked Jaar from the west, the military official said, adding that troops reached the area of Kadama, on the outskirts of the town. In the morning, air strikes hit Jaar, killing three al-Qaeda gunnies and a civilian, and wounding three civilians, a tribal source said. The air raids were to pave the way for advancing troops, said another military official. Yemen's new president, Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi, vowed last week to intensify the war against al-Qaeda, which has made much of the lawless southern and eastern part of the country a safe haven. "The war against bully boyz has not started yet, and will not be over before we purge every province and village so that the displaced can return home peacefully," he warned.

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Qaida Militants Kill 2 Yemeni Troops in Southern Town

2012-05-10

[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda gunnies killed two Yemeni soldiers Wednesday when they shelled their camp with two mortars in the southern town of Loader which the turban group has been trying to take over, an army officer said. Another soldier was maimed in the assault to which the army responded by shelling al-Qaeda hideouts on the outskirts of Loder, the officer added. Loder residents told Agence La Belle France Presse that the faceless myrmidons also shelled the town and burned down a mosque and a house. "The (al-Qaeda) network is trying to forcefully enter Loder," a tribal source said. Loder and Mudia are the only towns in 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 Emirate after 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 which are still out of the control of the Islamic fascisti who overran the scenic provincial capital Zinjibar in May. Fierce battles between the army and residents on one side and the Islamic fascisti on the other for the control of both towns left more than 200 people dead early in April. Residents of these towns have formed anti-Qaeda militias -- known as Popular Resistance Committees -- which fight alongside the army to keep out the jihadists who have renamed themselves as Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law). On Monday, al-Qaeda gunnies launched spectacular attacks on two army posts outside of Zinjibar, killing at least 22 soldiers, to avenge the death of a top turban in an air raid. The attacks came after Yemeni al-Qaeda leader Fahd al-Quso, who was wanted in connection with the deadly 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, was killed in an air strike in eastern Yemen on Sunday. U.S. media reported on Tuesday that Quso's killing came after information provided by a man who was a double agent. The man had infiltrated the turban group and was ordered by al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner.

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Militant Killed Planting Bomb in Yemen

2012-05-09

[An Nahar] A suspected member of al-Qaeda was killed when a bomb he was trying to plant at a checkpoint run by a local militia in Yemen's restive 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 Emirate after 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 went kaboom!, a tribal source said on Tuesday. The kaboom took place late on Monday in Mudia, one of only two towns in Abyan -- along with Loder -- that has not yet fallen under the control of the myrmidons. In a bid to keep out the jihadists, locals have formed anti-Qaeda militias known as Popular Resistance Committees, which fight alongside the army. The cut-throats on Monday launched attacks on two army posts outside the quiet provincial capital Zinjibar, killing at least 22 soldiers to avenge the death in an air raid of top Death Eater Fahd al-Quso, who was wanted in connection with the deadly 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. The jihadists, who have named themselves the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), control parts of southern and eastern Yemen where Sanaa's authority is weak -- including the Abyan quiet provincial capital Zinjibar.

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Pro-Regime Gunmen Kill 12 'Qaida' Militants in Yemen

2012-05-05

[An Nahar] Pro-government gunnies fighting al-Qaeda alongside the Yemeni army have killed 12 suspected snuffies as jihadists attacked the southern town of Loder, one of the fighters said on Friday. "Two vehicles were destroyed and 12 fighters killed" late Thursday by the gunnies, he told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding the snuffies had attacked the southern entrance to the town in restive 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 Emirate after 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. The gunnies, who belong to the so-called Popular Resistance Committees, were supported by army artillery as they pushed the snuffies back, the fighter said. He added that four civilians were maimed when two mortars fired by al-Qaeda suspects struck Loder. Al-Qaeda seized Loder in August 2010, but the army eventually drove it out. Loder lies 150 kilometers northeast of Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, which was overrun last May by the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), an affiliate of al-Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula.

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Yemen Army kills 8 Qaida Militants

2012-05-04

[An Nahar] Yemeni soldiers killed eight al-Qaeda Death Eaters as they tried to attack an army post in the southern 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 Emirate after 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... on Thursday, the defence ministry said. "Eight al-Qaeda Death Eaters were killed and others maimed" when army forces "foiled their attack" against a military post near Bajdar on the outskirts of the picturesque provincial capital Zinjibar, the ministry's website 26sep.net said. On Monday, fierce festivities killed at least 21 people, including 18 al-Qaeda bad boys, near Abyan's town of Loder, which jihadists are trying to capture. The army has been battling al-Qaeda bad boys, who have renamed themselves as the "Partisans of Sharia" (Islamic law), for control of Zinjibar for nearly a year. The jihadists have expanded their control over Yemen's lawless southern and eastern provinces, taking advantage of a weakened central government in Sanaa and months of political upheaval. The beturbanned goons intensified their attacks on the security forces after President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi took office in February pledging to hunt down the bad boys.

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Qaeda frees 73 Yemen soldiers

2012-04-30

Al-Qaeda on Sunday freed dozens of Yemeni soldiers they captured during battles with the army in the southern province of Abyan, most of which is held by the jihadists, a provincial official said. Why would they do that, if they had the upper hand? "Al-Qaeda has released 73 soldiers they seized in the south in early March," said the official in the militant stronghold of Jaar. The soldiers were "driven in two buses from Jaar to Aden," the main southern city, the official said, adding that religious and tribal mediators had secured their release. On March 4, militants from the Yemeni-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, fighting under the banner of the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), attacked an army camp near the provincial capital Zinjibar, killing 185 soldiers and capturing scores. In a statement claiming responsibility for the assault, Al-Qaeda said it was holding 73 soldiers. The announcement of their release came as rumours circulated the soldiers might be executed. The Partisans of Sharia have expanded their control over Yemen's lawless southern and eastern provinces, taking advantage of a weakened central government in Sanaa and months of political upheaval.

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Yemen Troops Advance on Qaida Stronghold

2012-04-25

[An Nahar] Yemeni troops, backed by armed civilians, are advancing on southern Abyan's ...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 Emirate after 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... capital Zinjibar, under al-Qaeda control since last May, security officials and the interior ministry said on Tuesday. "The army is advancing towards the center of the city," a military official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity, adding that both sides have suffered casualties in fierce battles on the eastern and southern outskirts of Zinjibar that have raged since early Tuesday morning. The official said the army has so far managed to take back several government buildings, including the post office, adding that reinforcements from the capital Sanaa "were on the way." Yemen's interior ministry confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that the army has "dealt a heavy blow to al-Qaeda and has tightened the noose around them." It added that at least 52 "terrorists" have been killed in Abyan and nearby Shabwa province in the last two days, without specifying how many soldiers have been killed in the fighting. This is the second time in a week the Yemeni army claims to have made advances on Zinjibar. The interior ministry said on Friday that troops had "made a major advance towards Zinjibar, driving out the terrorist al-Qaeda elements from several positions they held." In Loder meanwhile, a key Abyan city which has been under attack by Islamist Islamic fascisti in recent weeks, a military official said government authority had been restored. Al-Qaeda in Yemen and its local affiliates, the self-proclaimed Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), have expanded their control of Yemen's mostly lawless southern and eastern provinces, taking advantage of a weakened central government in Sanaa and months of Arab Spring-style political upheaval. The unrest eventually led to the ouster of veteran leader 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... . His replacement, former Vice President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi, elected to the presidency for an interim two-year term in a single candidate vote in late February, has pledged to rid Yemen of the Death Eater group. Battles have since raged in Abyan's towns and cities, and spread to neighboring Shabwa and Bayda provinces, as troops and Islamic fascisti fight for control of the region.

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Yemen Air Raids Kill 8 Qaida Militants

2012-04-22

[An Nahar] Yemen's air force raided al-Qaeda hideouts in the south, killing eight cut-thoats, the defense ministry said Saturday, raising to 40 the number of jihadists reportedly killed in two days. "The Yemeni air force carried out two air strikes that targeted al-Qaeda positions on Friday... killing eight faceless myrmidons and wounding dozens," said the ministry's news website26sep.net. The raids were conducted in Abyan province, where 26sep.net reported that 32 faceless myrmidons and two soldiers had been killed in festivities late Thursday. Al-Qaeda has exploited a decline in Yemeni central government control that accompanied Arab Spring-inspired protests since last year and eventually forced veteran 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 resign. The army, backed by armed civilians, has been battling the turban group's Yemeni branch, known as the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), over the control of Abyan province, most of which has fallen under the command of the Islamist krazed killers.

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Toll Hits 200 in Battle with Qaida for Loder

2012-04-14

[An Nahar] Clashes between armed civilians and al-Qaeda bully boyz trying to retake control of the town of Loder spread on Friday to nearby Mudia, as the corpse count from four days of festivities reached 200, local sources said. At least 23 people, 20 of them suspected bully boys, were killed in one suburb of the southern town, tribal sources said. The rest of the dead were tribal levies allied with government troops who were killed in the jihadist assault on the Abyan province town, the sources said. Residents of the province, mainly from Loder and Mudia, formed gangs in 2011 after al-Qaeda bully boyz overran the picturesque provincial capital of Zinjibar. At least 51 people were killed on Wednesday in a third day of festivities in and around Loder, according to military and tribal sources. Loder lies some 150 kilometers (95 miles) northeast of Zinjibar, the Abyan capital that bully boyz of the al-Qaeda-linked Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law) overran last May. Al-Qaeda briefly seized Loder in August 2010 before being driven out by the army, while gunnies from the Assal tribe also ejected the bully boyz from Mudia. A tribal source said the bully boyz wanted to recapture it because of its strategic location between Shabwa, Bayda and Lahij provinces where Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, is also active. Abyan has fallen completely under the control of the terror network except for Loder and Mudia.

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