Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

The US State Department added Ibrahim Hassan Tali al Asiri to the list of specailly designated global terrorists. Asiri is AQAP’s top bomb maker and aided in his brother’s failed assassination attempt against Saudi Arabia’s deputy interior minister in January 2009.

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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