Ansar al Sharia, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s political front, released a statement announcing the execution of three US spies, and named others who are wanted. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the “underwear bomber,” is seeking a sentence lower than life in prison.
The three men who confessed were reported yesterday to have been beheaded.
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The US killed al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative Abdul Mun’im Salim al Fatahani in the Jan. 31 drone strike in Lawdar. He was involved in the suicide attack on the USS Cole in 2000.
A jihadist confirmed that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative Abdul Mun’im Salim al Fatahani was killed in the Jan. 31 airstrike in Lawdar, Yemen. He was involved in the October 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole.
Abdul Mun’im Salim al Fatahani, who was involved in the suicide attack on the USS Cole in 2000, was killed in the Jan. 31 strike in Lawdar, according to a Yemeni jihadist.
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Four local al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commanders are said to have been killed in a Predator strike in Abyan province. The strike is the first in Yemen since Dec. 22.
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AQAP will get 15 key prisoners released and sharia in Rada’a in exchange for leaving the town, according to a tribal leader.
Tariq al Dhahab, the brother-in-law of Anwar al Awalki, has called for the release of al Qaeda prisoners in Yemen and the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law.
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Rada’a has been taken over by Tareq al Dhahab, the brother-in-law of slain AQAP ideologue Anwar al Awlaki.
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed Abu Ali al Hakim, a Houthi military commander, in Kataf. AQAP killed Hakim using a “sticky” bomb that was attached to his car.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared war on the Shia in early December, and described them as a “virus.”
US Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike
Yemeni officials claimed that Abdul Rahman Wuhayshi, the brother of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s emir, was killed yesterday in a US drone strike. His death has not been confirmed by AQAP.
Abdul Rahman, the brother of Nasir al Wuhayshi, is rumored to have been killed in a US Predator airstrike in Zinjibar. The report is unconfirmed.
Yemeni security officials say a brother of Yemen’s al Qaeda leader was among five people killed in the latest of a series of battles. A member of a local tribe confirmed that Abdel Rahman al-Wuhayshi was killed. He is a younger brother of Nasser al-Wuhayshi, a Yemeni who once served as Osama bin Laden’s personal […]