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Two suspected U.S. drone strikes killed 11 al-Qaeda militants insouthern Yemen on Saturday, Yemeni military officials said. The first attack took place near the border of Marib and Shabwaprovinces southeast of the capital, Sanaa, killing six militants,including one Egyptian national, the officials said. The secondstrike hit two cars in Marib, killing five al-Qaeda-linkedfighters.
Over the past year, parts of Marib, Shabwa and other southernprovinces have fallen under the control of al-Qaeda militants whohave capitalized on the turmoil in Yemen that stems from thepopular uprising that toppled longtime leader Ali Abdullah Saleh . There was no immediate word from the U.S. on whether Washington wasbehind Saturday's attacks. In the past two weeks, suspected U.S.airstrikes have killed at least three senior al-Qaida operatives insouthern Yemen. Yemeni officials have reported more frequent U.S.
drone strikessince Yemen's new president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, took power inFebruary after Saleh stepped down. Hadi has since ramped up thefight against al-Qaida militants. The Pentagon recently sent American military trainers to Yemen, andWashington has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to assist theimpoverished Arab nation fight al-Qaeda and other extremist groupsin the country. Yemen branch among most dangerous offshoots The U.S. says al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch, known as al-Qaeda in theArabian Peninsula, is one of the group's most dangerous offshoots.
Yemen was the launching pad for two foiled al-Qaeda attacks on U.S.territory: the Christmas 2009 attempt to down an American airliner over Detroit with an underwear bomb and the sending of printer cartridges packed with explosives to Chicago-area synagogues in 2010. On Monday, The Associated Press disclosed that the CIA thwarted yetanother plot by AQAP to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bombwhich could have been undetectable by conventional airportscanners. Separately, Yemeni military officials said an assault by governmenttroops Saturday on al-Qaeda forces around the southern city ofZinjibar, the capital of Abyan province, left a general, a soldierand six militants dead. The attack was part of the Yemeni military's broader campaignagainst al-Qaeda-linked fighters in the south.
Residents say themilitary used warplanes and artillery to pound areas west and northof Zinjibar. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with militaryregulations. I am a professional writer from Fresh Vegetables, which contains a great deal of information about 4x5 view cameras , canon xl2 pal, welcome to visit!
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