Yemen says US drone strikes to continue
January 08, 2013  23:44
AFP reports:  Yemen's national security chief said today that US drone strikes against Al-Qaeda targets will continue as the two governments keep up their counter-terrorism cooperation.

"The Yemeni-American cooperation, including the use of friendly aircraft, will continue," Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi told reporters in Sanaa."Yemen is one of the countries that joined the international alliance to combat terrorism after the September 11," 2001 attacks on the United States, he said.

Washington has been stepping up its support for Yemen's battle against militants of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which it regards as the most active and deadliest franchise of the global jihadist network.
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