Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula issued a hit list of 55 security officials in Abyan. Al Qaeda killed a soldier in an ambush in Abyan. The government claimed it seized documents proving links between the southern separatist movement and al Qaeda.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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