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ADEN - Hundreds of Al-Qaeda gunmen gave in to tribal pressure and pulled out Wednesday from the central Yemen town of Rada that they held for nine days, tribal leaders and witnesses said. “They have left the town,” located 130 kilometres (85 miles) southeast of Sanaa, one tribal source said hours after a senior military official said there had been mediation to convince the extremists to withdraw. “Tribal mediation carried out by Sheikh Hashed Fadhl al-Qawsi succeeded, after three days of talks, to convince the armed Al-Qaeda men to leave Rada,” the military official had told AFP late on Tuesday. Some tribal mediators told AFP that they have warned the militants that if they do not leave the town they would be forced out.
