Al-Qaeda on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a string of attacks in Yemen, including an assault on soldiers that left scores dead in the southern province of Abyan and bombing of a military plane in Sanaa. On March 4, \"the mujahedeen carried out a series of operations... against government forces deployed at the entrances of Zinjibar,\" capital of Abyan province, said the group\'s Yemeni branch. Islamist militants also \"blew up a Yemeni airforce military plane in Dulaimi army base that was transporting weapons to Aden and Hadramawt\" provinces, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said in a statement