Sanaa: More than 200 suspected al-Qaeda gunmen have wrested control of the south Yemen city of Zinjibar after two days of heavy fighting with security forces that left 16 dead. The Yemeni opposition accused embattled president Ali Abdullah Saleh of having allowed Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, to fall to the gunmen to raise fears concerning al-Qaeda and boost his flagging international support.
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