4 troops killed in Al Qaida attack
Al Qaida gunmen shot four soldiers dead in one of the militants’ former south Yemen strongholds today, officials said, as the local governor declared that the country’s ill-equipped police force is incapable of filling the security void left by months of clashes.
The militants staged a bold pre-dawn attack on a security building in Jaar, one of several cities in the south that they captured in 2011 while taking advantage of a popular uprising in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation.
