SgtJim
07-15-2011, 05:10 AM
By Bill Roggio @ longwarjournal / July 14, 2011
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US aircraft targeted a police station in southern Yemen that had been recently taken over by fighters from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to reports from the region.
Six "Islamic militants" were killed in a nighttime airstrike on a police station in the town of Mudiya in Abyan province, a stronghold of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a Yemeni official told The Associated Press (http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-airstrike-kills-6-1014955.html). Yemeni officials said US aircraft carried out the strike and that the Yemeni Air Force does not have the ability to conduct strikes at night.
A report in the Yemeni newspaper Akhbar al Youm (http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Yemen-50-Al-Qaeda-militants-killed-in-airstrike_312240491303.html) claimed the airstrike was conducted by the unmanned US Predators or Reapers, and said that more than 50 "al Qaeda militants" were killed in the attack.
The exact target of the strike is unclear. No senior al Qaeda leaders or operatives were reported to have been killed in the strike.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/07/us_airstrike_kills_6_1.php#ixzz1SACERn7H
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11395
US aircraft targeted a police station in southern Yemen that had been recently taken over by fighters from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to reports from the region.
Six "Islamic militants" were killed in a nighttime airstrike on a police station in the town of Mudiya in Abyan province, a stronghold of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a Yemeni official told The Associated Press (http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-airstrike-kills-6-1014955.html). Yemeni officials said US aircraft carried out the strike and that the Yemeni Air Force does not have the ability to conduct strikes at night.
A report in the Yemeni newspaper Akhbar al Youm (http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Yemen-50-Al-Qaeda-militants-killed-in-airstrike_312240491303.html) claimed the airstrike was conducted by the unmanned US Predators or Reapers, and said that more than 50 "al Qaeda militants" were killed in the attack.
The exact target of the strike is unclear. No senior al Qaeda leaders or operatives were reported to have been killed in the strike.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/07/us_airstrike_kills_6_1.php#ixzz1SACERn7H