Yemen

Jamal Ahmed Mairan, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arbian Peninsula in the towns of Lauder and Modia, surrendered to authorities in Abyan province. A court charged Sharif Mobley, an American citizen with ties to al Qaeda, with murder.

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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