"Al-Qaeda" kills Yemen intel officer
1/2/2014 12:32:08 PM
Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen on Thursday killed an intelligence officer in the south Yemen port city of Aden, a security official said.
Colonel Marwan al-Maqbali was leaving his house in Al-Qalua neighborhood when he was fired on from a car carrying gunmen "suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda", the official said.
Two bullets hit Maqbali who died before reaching hospital, and his assailants escaped, the source added.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been blamed for most of the increasingly common hit-and-run strikes targeting military personnel and officials.
The jihadist group rarely claims responsibility for such attacks, but did admit being behind a brazen daylight assault on the defense ministry in Sanaa that killed 56 people on December 5.
AQAP took advantage of a decline in central government control during Yemen's 2011 uprising to seize large swathes of territory across the south.
Colonel Marwan al-Maqbali was leaving his house in Al-Qalua neighborhood when he was fired on from a car carrying gunmen "suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda", the official said.
Two bullets hit Maqbali who died before reaching hospital, and his assailants escaped, the source added.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been blamed for most of the increasingly common hit-and-run strikes targeting military personnel and officials.
The jihadist group rarely claims responsibility for such attacks, but did admit being behind a brazen daylight assault on the defense ministry in Sanaa that killed 56 people on December 5.
AQAP took advantage of a decline in central government control during Yemen's 2011 uprising to seize large swathes of territory across the south.