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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING NEWS: Yemini Official: A US-Yemeni operation against al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula "massive and unprecedented."
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also CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/20/world/meast/yemen-drone-strike/index.html
(CNN) -- [Breaking news published at 9:31 p.m. ET]
An operation targeting al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is under way in Abyan, Yemen, a high-level Yemeni government official who is being briefed on the strikes told CNN on Monday. The official said that the scale of the strikes against AQAP are "massive and unprecedented" and that at least 30 militants have been killed. The operation in Abyan involved Yemeni commandos who are now "going after high-level AQAP targets," the official said.
An operation targeting al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is under way in Abyan, Yemen, a high-level Yemeni government official who is being briefed on the strikes told CNN on Monday. The official said that the scale of the strikes against AQAP are "massive and unprecedented" and that at least 30 militants have been killed. The operation in Abyan involved Yemeni commandos who are now "going after high-level AQAP targets," the official said.
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BREAKING NEWS: Yemini Official: A US-Yemeni operation against al Qaeda in the Arabian (Original Post)
itsrobert
Apr 2014
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MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)1. ANYTHING TO DISTRACT FROM BENGHAZI!!!!!
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)3. Is their some context for this..
Is Yemen in Libya?
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)4. Just predicting the Faux Snooze reaction. eom
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)2. Prediction:
We take out another in the unending succession of 'al-Qaeda #2's'.