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YEMEN: shibam bomber lived in u.s.
Traveled to the U.S. with his mother in 1995. Recruited by an ‘Amr Muhsen Hassan al-Mahfli al-Raimi. He was previously wanted and was included in Yemen’s 161 most wanted list…
YEMEN: interior minister calls for end to soft sentencing, more death for terrorists
Yemen’s top terror buster, Interior Minister Mutahar Rashad al-Masri has publicly denounce Yemeni judges for being lenient on terrorists. It should be noted that the call for harsher punishment comes after a judge ordered investigation of the treatment of members of an accused al-Qaeda cell who complained of torture by security agencies…
YEMEN: VIDEO: computer animated model of 2nd suicide bombing
This Korean news report has a pretty cool computer generated re-enactment of of the bombing. You get a really good idea of how it was carried out…
KSA/YEMEN: yemen pursuing 50 saudi terrorists
A security source at the Ministry of Interior has told al-Hayat that Yemeni security forces are tracking 50 Saudis spread throughout Yemen. The source told the paper that the names will be submitted to Interpol…
YEMEN: updated info on suicide bomber: from taiz, trained in somalia
Strange that the name changed. Perhaps the ID card found was not that of the bomber. It is also unclear whether this article is saying the bomber was a Somali immigrant or Yemeni…
YEMEN: details emerge on yemeni suicide bomber and his victims
UPDATED: He asked to pose with the Koreans before blasting his body parts over a kilometer away. A witness at the scene says that the boy, who was high on qat, was with an older man in his 40s. News Yemen has also published the names of the victims…
Yemen: most wanted al-qaeda members captured/surrender
Security forces captured Saudi national Abdullah al-Harbi, named on the lists of Saudi Arabia’s 85 and Yemen’s 116 most wanted, in the governorate of Taiz on Sunday, March 15. Over the past few days a number of al-Qaeda operatives apparently surrendered to security forces in Abyan as well…
YEMEN: 4 korean tourists, yemeni killed by bomb in shibam, hadhramout – al-qaeda suspected
UPDATED: What seems to be known: Four South Korean tourists, two men and two women, were killed after a bombing incident around sunset Sunday evening in the area of Shibam in the governorate of Hadhramout. Information beyond those details seems to be mixed between reports…
YEMEN: yemen and al-qaeda agree on 1-year truce - al-ghad
al-Ghad has it from “reliable sources” that a one-year truce has been agreed upon by the Yemeni government and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQ-AP) and its leader ‘Abu Basir’ Nasser al-Wahayshi. The agreement was apparently reached via the government’s jihadist middleman Tariq al-Fadhli…
YEMEN: ‘abu nasir al-hawashi’ new leader of al-qaeda in the gulf? - wait, someones dyslexic
Abu Nasar Al-Haweshi from Yemen has been nominated as Al-Qaeda’s leader for Gulf Region, TheNation learnt through highly-placed reliable sources on Sunday…
This really needs some confirmation – there is a whole lot here that just doesn’t add up…
KSA/YEMEN: al-qaeda leader’s father appeals for son to return like al-Awfi
Ali Jaber al-Shihri has made a public plea to his son, Sa’id Ali al-Shihri, to hand himself in and return to the homeland. The appeal comes following the recent return of al-Qaeda Field Commander Mohammad al-Awfi…
YEMEN: AUDIO: new statement from al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula commander nasir al-wahayshi
Just posted this morning on the forums, enjoy…
UPDATE: There’s audio too…
2nd UPDATE: The audio is now on YouTube, no download needed…
YEMEN: more details on al-’awfi’s al-qaeda vacation in yemen
A trickle of information continues to come out on the al-’Awfi experience. Crossed into Yemen with three others: Turki ‘Asiri, Murtadi Muqrim, and al-Shihri (Abu Sufyan)…
YEMEN: new al-qaeda cell discovered
UPDATED: Yemeni authorities are investigating a cell of seven Saudis discovered after the arrest of 30 individuals near the Saudi border last week. The cell was to take direction from al-Qaeda in preparing a series of attacks against foreign interests and tourists, as well as train new operatives…
YEMEN: yemen issues terrorist wanted list
I haven’t seen it yet, but Mareb Press is saying the Yemeni intelligence services have put a list of wanted al-Qaeda and al-Houthi terrorists. Personally, I object to combining the two – but I understand why they do. I’ll publish it when I find it…
YEMEN: released prisoners were demanded by al-qaeda
Greg Johnsen has been busy - and not with his love of controversial novelists. He found and analyzed the names of the 112 controversial “al-Qaeda-linked-not-al-Qaeda-linked” prisonersreleased by Yemen so far. And, well…as Ricky says, “Aaaali, you gots some ‘splainin’ to do”…
profile of an al-qaeda recidivist
Evan Kohlmann has put together the profiles of all 11 of the known al-Qaeda recidivists that graduated from the Saudi rehabilitation program after being released from Guantanamo. The report makes the case that al-Qaeda setbacks in the Kingdom are a result of failed leadership within the organization more than Saudi security successes as touted…
ksa asks yemen to take care of its ‘responsibility’ on terror
Saudi Arabia on Monday called upon countries in the region “to shoulder their responsibilities” in hunting down terrorist suspects. The Cabinet, meeting in its weekly session chaired by King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, made the appeal days after Saudi Arabia released a list of 85 wanted terrorist suspects who have fled the Kingdom.
