Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a martyrdom statement for Said al Shihri, the terror group’s deputy emir. He was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen. Al Shihri was a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

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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