Suspected al Qaeda attacks on Yemeni forces kill around 40

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Suspected al Qaeda attacks on Yemeni forces kill around 40

By Mohammed Mukhashaf
ADEN | Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:22am EDT

(Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda militants killed about 40 Yemeni soldiers and policemen in two attacks in the south of the country on Friday, their deadliest for more than a year, security officials said.

Around 30 soldiers died when two car bombs exploded at a military camp in al-Nashama, near the coast, and about 10 police were killed by gunmen in the inland town of Mayfaa.

Officials believe members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were behind both attacks, the security sources said. AQAP is seen by Western countries as one of the most dangerous branches of al Qaeda because it has attempted to carry out bombings on international airlines.

U.S. drone strikes have killed scores of AQAP members and the Yemeni army has seized back large tracts of territory from the insurgents, prompting the country's foreign minister to call Friday's attacks a sign of increasing desperation.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/20/us-yemen-attack-idUSBRE98J04V20130920

[JayhawkSD]

1. We are winning the war on terror.

"... to call Friday's attacks a sign of increasing desperation." And good old Rumsfeld said that of the rising Iraqi insurgency in 2004.

All of these drone strikes all over the Middle East, along with endless war has got Al Queda on the run. We have killed their leadership a dozen times and rendered them leaderless and ineffective. There are only a few dozen of them left and they are running and hiding from us.

That's what thousands of tons of missiles and bombs and missiles can do. Long live American Exceptionalism.