Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Security officials told The Yemen Post that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s deputy leader, Said al Shihri, was killed when a bomb he was assembling detonated prematurely. The report has not been confirmed.

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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