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Fifty soldiers, militants killed in south Yemen
Jeudi, 25 août 2011 - 7h21 AM
Thursday 25 August 2011
Pendant que l’opinion publique internationale est focalisée, par “médias aux ordres” interposés, sur la Lybie, la Syrie, dans les autes pays arabes, la révolution continue à gronder, à être combattue avec l’aide des pays complices d’Occident , d’Israël ou, pour certains, dictatoriaux arabes. Yemen, Bahrein, Egypte, Tunisie, Maroc, Irak, Palestine etc.....
Quand DSK et la Lybie auront disparu de la UNE de la presse complice, à qui le tour ?
Michel Flament
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24 Aug 2011 14:55
Source: reuters // Reuters
ADEN, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Eleven Yemeni soldiers and 39 suspected Islamist militants were killed in some of the worst violence to grip the volatile south since mass protests began in January against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, residents and officials said.
A security official said on Wednesday the clashes broke out late on Tuesday when militants attacked troops stationed near Zinjibar, the capital of the volatile Abyan province, where militants, emboldened by months of upheaval, have seized at least three towns since March.
Warplanes targeting the attackers bombed the area and residents of the town of Jaar, some 15 km away, said the sky was lit up by the raid.
Meanwhile, one army unit managed to force gunmen from a stronghold in the Maysameer district west of Zinjibar, a security official told Reuters.
“The militants withdrew, leaving behind weapons and materials they had previously looted from the army,” he said.
While Saleh recovers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from a June assassination attempt, the death toll in Abyan has been rising fast, with Islamist militants regularly attacking soldiers, security officials and tribesmen who are fighting to regain control over parts of Yemen's south.
A resident of Jaar said he had helped militants bury the bodies of the dead in a mass grave in the small hours of Wednesday morning and saw them crying and reciting the Koran.
The United States and Saudi Arabia fear upheaval in impoverished Yemen is giving the militants, who the government says belong to al Qaeda, more room to launch attacks on the region and beyond.
Opponents of Saleh accuse him of exaggerating the threat of al Qaeda and even of encouraging militants in order to pressure Riyadh and Washington into backing him. (Reporting by Mohammed Mukhashaf; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Matthew Jones)
