05.03.2017, 14:18
Schon der umstrittene - hinsichtlich des Ergebnisses - Einsatz von SEALs Ende Januar im Jemen (hierzu: http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Trumps-erster...83549.html), bei dem es rund 30 Tote gegeben haben soll, hat aufgezeigt, dass die neue US-Regierung um Trump eine etwas härtere Gangart gegenüber den al Qaida-Zellen im Jemen bereit ist anzuschlagen. Dies zeigt auch die Intensivierung der Luftschläge...
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Zitat:United States Ramps Up Airstrikes Against Al Qaeda in Yemenhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/world...middleeast
WASHINGTON — The United States military on Friday carried out a second night of airstrikes against suspected Qaeda terrorists in Yemen in what Pentagon officials said was part of a larger campaign to roll back territorial gains the group has made in the past two years.
It was the most intense series of strikes ever against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or A.Q.A.P. In all of 2016, the United States conducted a total of 38 strikes in Yemen, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Long War Journal. Yet in the last two days, armed Reaper drones and attack planes conducted more than 30 strikes against Qaeda militants, equipment and safe houses across south-central Yemen, Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said on Friday. [...]
On Friday, a Defense Department official said the computers, cellphones and other materials seized during the SEAL team raid on Jan. 29 had, so far, yielded names, phone numbers and other contact information of suspected terrorists, and had enabled analysts to identify terrorist nodes in Yemen. [...]
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