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Conley
10-06-2011, 09:22 AM
SANAA, Yemen — A U.S. drone strike killed five al-Qaida-linked militants in southern Yemen on Wednesday, Yemeni officials said.

An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to military rules, said the dawn strike targeted militant hideouts in the al-Arqoub area east of Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province. Islamic radicals seized control of Zinjibar in May, taking advantage of a wider uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh to establish a militant-ruled enclave.

Government forces and mutinous military units who oppose each other but consider al-Qaida the greater enemy have fought their way back into the city, but continue to suffer casualties to militant attacks.

U.S. drones regularly hit targets in Yemen. American-born al-Qaida propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a drone on Sept. 30 in the north of the country in what American officials said was a major blow to the militant organization.

Officials said that Wednesday’s drone strike in Abyan killed 5 and injured seven.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/us-drone-strike-kills-5-al-qaida-linked-militants-in-southern-yemen/2011/10/05/gIQARI39NL_story.html

Not sure how much this is costing but gotta say, it is nice to see AQ dropping like flies.

MMC
10-06-2011, 11:14 AM
SANAA, Yemen — A U.S. drone strike killed five al-Qaida-linked militants in southern Yemen on Wednesday, Yemeni officials said.

An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to military rules, said the dawn strike targeted militant hideouts in the al-Arqoub area east of Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province. Islamic radicals seized control of Zinjibar in May, taking advantage of a wider uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh to establish a militant-ruled enclave.

Government forces and mutinous military units who oppose each other but consider al-Qaida the greater enemy have fought their way back into the city, but continue to suffer casualties to militant attacks.

U.S. drones regularly hit targets in Yemen. American-born al-Qaida propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a drone on Sept. 30 in the north of the country in what American officials said was a major blow to the militant organization.

Officials said that Wednesday’s drone strike in Abyan killed 5 and injured seven.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/us-drone-strike-kills-5-al-qaida-linked-militants-in-southern-yemen/2011/10/05/gIQARI39NL_story.html

Not sure how much this is costing but gotta say, it is nice to see AQ dropping like flies.


It's costing as they dropped some on what they say is AQ in Somalia. Then on AQ in Afghanistan. Oh then Pakistan. Then we will find some AQ in Syria too.

Conley
10-06-2011, 11:36 AM
I guess these weren't high value targets.

waltky
03-28-2016, 11:05 PM
Well, at least ISIS not gaining any ground in Yemen...
:cool2:
ISIS Fails to Gain Much Traction in Yemen
March 28, 2016 - Al Qaeda’s local branch thrives in war’s chaos while Islamic State loses ground


His face shrouded in a scarf and an assault rifle in his lap, a man calling himself Antar al-Kindi appeared in a video released in January and described how Islamic State in Yemen urged him to kill his family. Instead of carrying out the order, though, Mr. Kindi used the video to renounce the extremist group, providing one more sign of Islamic State’s losses in the war-torn country. “Islamic State has no respect for Muslim blood,” the man, purportedly a former member of Islamic State’s Yemen branch, said in the video. The video’s authenticity couldn’t be independently verified. It was distributed by a jihadist media-production company, and Mr. Kindi’s accent placed him as a native of southeastern Yemen, where there is a heavy extremist presence.

The March 22 attacks in Brussels that killed at least 35 people demonstrated Islamic State’s expanding reach, even as the group suffers military setbacks in its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Islamic State is also struggling to gain traction in Yemen, despite a security vacuum ripe for exploitation, even as the country’s potent al Qaeda branch, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, thrives. Unlike in Libya, Islamic State hasn’t forged alliances with local jihadists such as al Qaeda. Islamic State fighters in Yemen are estimated to number in the hundreds, compared with several thousand for AQAP. Meanwhile, dozens of Islamic State members in Yemen have publicly complained about the leadership, viewing it as foreign and disconnected, and accusing it of extreme brutality, disregard for its own fighters and poor battlefield decision making.


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People gathered at the site of a suicide car-bombing outside Yemen's presidential palace in Aden on Jan. 28, an attack that was claimed by Islamic State

In the absence of a strong central government, Yemenis at times have tolerated even terrorist groups that provided health, judicial and security services. Unlike al Qaeda, Islamic State hasn’t done so in areas where it operates and so is less enmeshed in local tribal networks. Elisabeth Kendall, an Oxford University expert on Yemeni extremism who has traveled recently to tribal areas, said Islamic State's model, which hinges on central command and tolerates little autonomy, doesn’t fit well in Yemen. “In Yemen, the heartlands of al Qaeda in the east are not places that even responded well in the past to a central government,” she said. “So what on earth would make them answerable to caliphate based in Syria or Iraq that’s even more remote?”

Katherine Zimmerman, an analyst at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, noted that many Islamic State leaders in Yemen are reportedly Saudi, “and that does not sit well with Yemenis.” Impoverished Yemen has longstanding economic ties with its far bigger and richer neighbor, but the political relationship has been strained in recent years. Despite a flurry of “eight or so” Islamic State cells announced in Yemen last year, only two are visibly active now, in the southern provinces of Aden and Hadramout, she said. At the same time, al Qaeda branches seem to be retaining their grass-roots appeal, Ms. Kendall said. “While Islamic State might be doing more spectacular attacks…in numbers al Qaeda is more active,” she said. “In the West some of our agencies have taken their eye off the ball.”

MORE (http://www.wsj.com/articles/isis-fails-to-gain-much-traction-in-yemen-1459203675)

Tahuyaman
03-28-2016, 11:15 PM
Were these guys another grouping of the number two guys in ISIS?

exotix
03-29-2016, 09:30 AM
Were these guys another grouping of the number two guys in ISIS?Commence to GOP outrage.

Mac-7
03-29-2016, 09:33 AM
Commence to GOP outrage.

Why should GOP be outraged?

exotix
03-29-2016, 10:23 AM
Why should GOP be outraged?Well quit kidding ... you've been needing America to fail since Obama took office under the insane assumption you'll get back into the whitehouse.

Tahuyaman
03-29-2016, 11:07 AM
No. I'm just wondering if all five of these guy will be portrayed as " the number two" man in ISIS ?