As Yemen stand off against al-Qaeda is increasing in intensity with every new murdered intelligence officer and attack against the state authority, the coalition government is retaliating as brutely as it knows how, aiming to strike fear at the heart of terror militants.
Officials confirmed on Monday that two alleged al-Qaeda operatives based in al-Baydha, north of Abyan and south of the capital, Sana'a; had been killed in an authorized American-led drone strike while they were driving near the town of Radda at dawn on Monday.
Despite the popular backlash drones are generating, Yemen coalition government has yet to implement a new counter-terror strategy. Security experts have argued that while drones are growing widely unpopular they however remain the safest and cheapest way to fight off terror in the region, which from both a financial and military point of view makes more sense than boots on the ground.
Moreover, al-Qaeda's renewed attacks against intelligence officers in the southern provinces of Hadhramawt and Aden have raised fear among officials that the group is planning further ground attacks, similar to that witnessed in 2011 in Abyan.
The attack against al-Qaeda comes two days after Colonel Abdullah al-Ribaki was gunned down in a residential neighborhood of Mukalla (Hadhramawt) by terror operatives.
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