Arabian al Qaeda's number two confirmed dead
A Saudi second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula was killed in a U.S. drone attack in Yemen. Said al-Shehri was
described by U.S. officials as one of the most important al Qaeda-linked
militants to be released from the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba, where
he was taken in January 2002 after Pakistan handed him to U.S. authorities.
Yemeni authorities said he had died after suffering from injuries in an
operation by Yemeni security forces.
Senior AQAP official Ibrahim al Rubaish in a video statement
posted online he had been killed in a drone attack, but did not say when,
according to SITE, a U.S. based monitoring website. AQAP, which has planned
attacks on international targets including airliners, has been described by
Washington, as perhaps al Qaeda's most dangerous and innovative affiliate.
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