Dozens Of Al-Qaeda Suspects Killed In Yemen Drone Strike

http://informationng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/drone-strike-Somalia.jpg Weekend drone strikes in Yemen killed more than 40 suspected Al-Qaeda militants, including 30 on Sunday, days after the jihadist network’s Arabian Peninsula offshoot vowed to fight against Western “crusaders”. The United States is the only country that operates drones in Yemen, and President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has defended their use, despite criticism from rights groups who deplore civilian casualties. On Sunday US drones fired “several missiles” into a training camp run by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in the rugged Wadi Ghadina region in the southern province of Abyan, a tribal chief said. “More than 30 members of Al-Qaeda were killed and many others wounded,” near Al-Mahfad town, he said. Abyan lies next to Shabwa province, another region of Yemen where Al-Qaeda is entrenched. Witnesses also said that a US drone carried out the attack and that the most of the wounded were evacuated by members of the Islamist network.