Al-Qaeda in Yemen has threatened to retaliate after the recent security operations in which dozens of innocent civilians, most of whom were children and women, were killed in the south and north, the News Yemen reported on Monday.
Dozens of Al-Qaeda suspects were reported killed and arrested in the operations that took place in the provinces of Abyan, Sana'a and Shabwa.
Calling on the people in the Arab Peninsula to face a crusade campaign and west allies, Al-Qaeda wings in the country urged the people to attack foreign military bases, intelligence missions [embassies] and naval fleets stationed in regional waters to pressure the west to stop attacking Muslims and their lands.
The wings said none of their members were killed in the operations at the ends of the past two weeks, rejecting official reports that over 64 suspects were killed and about 29 others arrested.
U.S. fighters carried out the operations and they also took place with Yemeni, Saudi, Egyptian and U.S. coordination, the wings said in a statement.
The operations came within a Zionist-crusade hostile war that continues targeting Islam and Muslims in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Shishan, Waziristan and other Muslim states, the statement said.
They also exposed the alleged democratic drive by the west and their mouthing of protecting human rights while they are in fact killing the innocents and secure people secretly by jet fighters and in massacres.
'Moreover, they proved that the Yemeni government and other governments in the region are west mercenaries and tools in the hand of the west to kill their peoples.'
Expressing our sympathy with the families of the innocents killed, we affirm the Zionist-crusade campaign against Mujahideen in Arabian Peninsula has failed.
In the last two weeks, counterterrorism forces with help from the Air Force launched several operations against what the government said were Al-Qaeda hideouts and training sites in Abyan and Shabwa in the south and Sana'a, the capital, in the north.
About 64 terrorist suspects were said killed and other 29 suspects caught.
After the operations, reports surfaced dozens of civilians were among the dead, triggering domestic protests, particularly in the south, demanding probes into the raids and brining those responsible to justice.
There were also reports and sometimes confirmations by officials, that the U.S. already helped Yemen to carry out the internationally-hailed operations that came amid west fears Yemen may become a safe haven for terrorism after Al-Qaeda wings in Yemen and neighboring Saudi Arabia announced earlier this year they were merging.
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