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itsrobert

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Sun Apr 20, 2014, 09:51 PM Apr 2014

BREAKING 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.
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BREAKING NEWS: Yemini Official: A US-Yemeni operation against al Qaeda in the Arabian (Original Post) itsrobert Apr 2014 OP
ANYTHING TO DISTRACT FROM BENGHAZI!!!!! MohRokTah Apr 2014 #1
Is their some context for this.. Jesus Malverde Apr 2014 #3
Just predicting the Faux Snooze reaction. eom MohRokTah Apr 2014 #4
Prediction: TransitJohn Apr 2014 #2
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