Two Qaida Suspects Killed in New Yemen Drone Attack
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A drone strike on Yemen, the ninth since the end of July, has killed two suspected al-Qaida members, a local official said on Saturday..
Friday's attack in the southern province of Lahij targeted a car, wounding two other people while a fourth one escaped unharmed, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The drone strike comes as Washington said it would reopen 18 embassies and consulates it shut this week in Muslim-majority countries over al-Qaida threats -- except for its Yemen mission which will remain closed.
Nine drone attacks since July 28 in eastern, southern and southeast Yemen have killed 38 people. They are thought to be carried by the United States, the only country in the region to have drones.
On Wednesday, Yemen said it had foiled a plot by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula to storm a Canadian-run oil facility at Mina al-Dhaba on the Arabian Sea coast.
The United States closed had closed some two dozen embassies and consulates in the Middle East and North Africa since August 4 after reported intelligence intercepts from al-Qaida suggested an attack is imminent.
11 August 2013, 05:34
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I have an idea for the US and friends: instead of killing them why not shoot them with anesthetics, transport them to Turkey and truck them into Syria to fight for democracy and freedom for the Syrian people?
11 August 2013, 07:54
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one should salute the role of the US fighting quaeda and islamist extremism. In less than a week they have killed 38 qaeda members neutralizing step by step this dangerous organization.
12 August 2013, 06:01
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...and step by step the "ASSad" regime has fallen a little over 8,351 times and shall continue to fall every Wednesday until kingdom apparently come according to GabbyMarch14. Too bad none of the bright minds in Farts 14 and Sanni First (the legend goes that they all are, but perhaps still dormant) has thought of a way to suggest to the US to spare the lives of these Qaida fellows and use their services in installing democracy, freedom and human rights alongside their brothers there from Chechnya and other Sanni dumps.
