U.S. Drone Airstrikes Kill 15 Al-Qaeda Fighters in Southern Yemen…
War #4.
(LWJ) — Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 15 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters yesterday in an attack in a village outside of the terrorist-controlled city of Zinjibar in southern Lebanon.
The Predators, or “drones” as they are more commonly called, struck twice near Zinjibar, the provincial capital of Abyan after coordinating with the Yemeni government, a Yemeni military official told The Yemen Post. Yemen’s Interior Ministry has denied the strikes were carried out by US aircraft.
The strikes took place in the village of Al Khamila, about six miles outside of Zinjibar, according to a report in Reuters yesterday that stated the attack was carried out by the Yemeni Air Force.
The target of the strike is unclear, and no senior AQAP leaders or operatives were reported killed. Fifteen “suspected al Qaeda fighters” were killed and 12 more were wounded.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has been fighting under the banner of the Ansar al Sharia, or the Army of Islamic law. Ansar al Sharia constitutes “AQAP’s version of the Islamic State of Iraq,” which is al Qaeda’s political and military front in Iraq, a senior US intelligence official told The Long War Journal. “Ansar al Sharia is pulling in allied Islamist groups and sympathetic tribes into its orbit, and seeks to implement an Islamic State much like the Taliban did in Afghanistan and al Qaeda attempted in Iraq,” he said.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, August 2, 2011, at 4:19 pm | 
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What is this Weasel Zippers cannot be displayed stuff?
Sheesh I blame it on facebook and twitter crap. All pages are slowed down with this crap.
War #1: Afghanistan
War #2: Iraq
War #3: Pakistan
War #4: Yemen
War #5: Libya
War #6: Somalia
@Brock, discussion here:
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/01/attention-internet-explorer-users/
at least SOMEONE is paying attention out there…………
thanks, ironmaiden, for the clarification….
I have just one question…..with all this war going on…..
Are they REALLY going to cut the Pentagon’s budget???????
WHO (as if I didn’t already know) WOULD BE SO STUPID??????
I guess that’s two questions………oops……….
Happy Rama-lama-ding-dong!
@Brock SOE Toro: When did this start for you? Within the last 20 mins?
This story is like Christmas in August.
@ironmaiden: how long can that level of conflict be maintained? I would not think for long at all. It seems like the recipe for disaster.
Team Odumbo said just a couple weeks ago
…that there were only 100 or so AQ left…in Afghanistan
and they have been saying that since Dec. 2009
… over two and a half years now…
search google for… “100 al qaeda”
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http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110709/news/707099851/print/
“….After the killing of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a raid by U.S. Navy Seals in May, the U.S. is now targeting 10 to 20 other “key leaders” in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa, Panetta said. They include Ayman al-Zawahiri, who the U.S. believes is holed up in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a semi-autonomous region of Pakistan….”
“If we can go after them, I think we really can strategically defeat al-Qaeda,” Panetta said on his first overseas trip since being sworn in July 1. “Is it going to take some more work? You bet it is. But I think it’s within reach.”
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If there’s 15 AQ in one area… then there are hundreds more… just in Yemen
Team O’s count is way off… so what else is new…
its a strategic mistake to under estimate your enemy
Its old home week for osama