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Your support makes all the difference.Yemen has launched a manhunt for al-Qa'ida militants in its southern Shabwa province, the same day a US-born Muslim cleric sought by Washington and thought to be hiding in that area appeared in an online video.
The US-based terrorism monitoring service Site Institute released a video showing Anwar al-Awlaki sitting at a table in traditional Yemeni garb and delivering a religious lecture in Arabic.
Yemeni security forces and local tribes began combing the mountainous Said district in Shabwa for al-Qa'ida fighters on Saturday morning, a security official in Shabwa told Reuters. Members of Awlaki's own tribe were helping with the search, the official said.
The Shabwa governor and the Awlaki clan have signed a deal under which they would "expel al-Qa'ida elements from their territories and mount a joint operation with the army (to do so)," he added.
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