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#Yemen rescue failed as captors alerted to approaching U.S. commandos: officials
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/07/us-yemen-usa-hostage-forces-idUSKBN0JK0Q720141207

Une #étrange histoire de plus,

In that raid, U.S. commandos and Yemeni troops swooped before dawn into a cave in the eastern province of Hadramout and freed eight people.

Seven of the eight turned out to be #al_Qaeda members who had been held captive by the militants on suspicion of being government spies, two senior Yemeni officials told Reuters. The eighth was a Yemeni computer specialist, they said.

Al-Ahmadi, Chief of Yemen National Security Bureau, said after the seven were freed they told Yemen authorities they were members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the militant network’s arm in the country, and that they had been accused by their own organization of spying for the government.

Thet were detained by AQAP “not as hostages but as suspects,” a senior Yemini security official said.

Reuters could not independently confirm his description of those being detained. American officials declined to address the question. Officials at the White House and Pentagon did not respond to requests by Reuters for comment.

The seven — five Yemenis, a Saudi and an Ethiopian - are now being held by Yemen’s government, the officials said. It is unclear if the United States was aware that al Qaeda members suspected of being government informants were among the people rescued in that raid .

Overnight #al-Qaeda ambush kills 27 in #Yemen
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/overnight-al-qaeda-ambush-kills-27-yemen

At least 27 people were killed in an overnight raid by gunmen on a city in southeastern Yemen, residents and a local official said on Saturday, as al-Qaeda continues its fightback against a government offensive in the country. Armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and explosives, attackers drove in from the surrounding desert on 15 pickup trucks into Seyoun after detonating a car bomb at the entrance to the city in Hadramout province. read more

Al-Qaeda executes « US spy » in #Yemen
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/al-qaeda-executes-us-spy-yemen

Al-Qaeda militants shot dead a man in southeastern Yemen on Thursday for allegedly giving the #united_states information used to carry out #drone_strikes in the country, witnesses and the SITE monitoring service said. Residents said the man was found shot dead on a sandy football pitch in the town of Shahr in Hadramout province. Pictures posted on the Internet showed his body, dressed in Yemeni traditional clothes, hanging by its arms from a bar suspended from a football goal, on which a black al-Qaeda flag also hung. A crowd of onlookers stood nearby. read more

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Gunmen kill six soldiers in #Yemen
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/gunmen-kill-six-soldiers-yemen

Yemeni gunmen killed at least six soldiers in stepped up attacks on army installations in the southeastern Hadramout province, a local official and residents said on Sunday, after tribesmen warned a Norwegian gas exploration company to stop operations in the area. Growing lawlessness in the poor Arabian Peninsula state is an international concern because of Yemen’s strategic position next to oil exporter Saudi Arabia and shipping lanes. read more

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Gunmen kill colonel in southern #Yemen
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/gunmen-kill-colonel-southern-yemen

Two masked gunmen killed a security officer and his bodyguard in southern Yemen late on Friday in what a security official said was a suspected al-Qaeda attack. Colonel Mohammed Abdullah al-Habashy, security adviser in the southeastern Hadramout province, was at a restaurant with his bodyguard in the city of Sayoun when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire, the security official and witnesses said. read (...)

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