The Yemeni military is reporting today that they have claimed 43 “suspects” in the last 48 hours. the result of sustained shelling of the town of Huroor along the border between the Lahj and Abyan Provinces.
The shelling is a retaliation for weekend fighting in the region, which included an attack by the Ansar al-Sharia against a military checkpoint between the provinces, killing 28 soldiers and capturing 15 others, who were publicly executed the following day.
Yemen’s military also reported in the statement that the attacks of the past 48 hours were carried out “with US help,” though they gave no indication what that help was and naturally, the US hasn’t reported on its involvement at all.
One can imagine though that the US, which has been constantly escalating its drone war in Yemen, likely played at a minimum a role of surveillance of the town, and potentially also fired some of the rockets against it as well.
“43 suspects killed as shelling…”
Is there any journalist here in the land of the free worth his salt and brave enough to tell us who these “suspect” are, and exactly what are they suspected of having done, and who the hell did the suspecting?
Or are these normal Yemenis people demonstrating against their puppet government and shot by government forces and the CIA?
Suspects? How old were these "suspects"? Were they even born yet?