Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Nayif Mohammed Saeed al Qahtani is reported to have been killed in a shootout in Saudi Arabia sometime in April. The report is unconfirmed. Qahtani is a top operational commander for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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