Al Qaeda kills 32 soldiers in Yemen

Armed Islamists killed Monday morning at 32 Yemeni soldiers during the assault on a military position in the south, a region where Al Qaeda control large areas of territory. Military spokesmen confirmed the attack, one of many that occur with increasing frequency since the president Abed Rabbo Mansur took office in February. The government has responded with air strikes and the United States repeatedly has used drones ( drones) to kill Islamist militants. The gunmen attacked the soldiers on the outskirts of the city of Zinjibar, the provincial capital of Abidjan, killing at least 32 soldiers and wounding dozens. An army spokesman said the Islamists captured several soldiers and seized weapons and ammunition. In a similar attack in March, militants killed a hundred soldiers in Zinjibar. The onslaught of Al Qaeda comes hours after a prominent leader of the organization died on Sunday during an attack with a drone. leader, Fahd al Qasaa, and his two bodyguards were killed when riding in a vehicle by the Yemeni region of Al RAFD. Members of the security forces in Yemen confirmed the death of the former leader of Al Qaeda in the country since 2009. Also known as Abu Hazifa the Yemeni, Al Qasaa was sentenced to ten years in prison for the attack in 2000 against the U.S. destroyer Cole that killed 17 sailors, and was among the 10 most wanted terrorists by the United States. The leader escape from prison in Yemen after a year. On Wednesday, another drone attacked a camp of Al Qaeda in Yemen, killing 13 suspected militants of the terrorist network, U.S. military sources confirmed. In April, the U.S. Army had also finished with the life of Muqbel Said al Omda, CFO of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and also accused of participating in the attack on the Cole . Omda had escaped from a Yemeni prison in 2006 and was also part of the list of most wanted terrorists by U.S. authorities. U.S. has intensified attacks with drones especially in Yemen, Somalia and the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan in its initiative to end al Qaeda cells in the different countries. The Obama administration officially recognized the existence of a secret CIA program on the use of such drones and have launched over 250 attacks in Pakistan, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,400 people- according to the count made ​​by the expert Peter Bergen . In the same week that marked the first anniversary of the death of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, during a special operation estaodunidense Army.