Yemeni forces have killed Said al-Shihri, second in command of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Defense Ministry said Monday. An official military website cited a senior source saying al-Shihri was killed in an operation in Hadramawt Valley.
A Yemeni government official told CNN's Mohammad Jamjoom that an operation took place and a body appears to be that of al-Shihri, but that officials are waiting for DNA confirmation.
Al-Shihri was once held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. In November 2007 he was transferred to Saudi custody, and underwent a program designed to lead people away from terrorism.
But despite travel restrictions requiring him to stay in Saudi Arabia, he left for Yemen, where he joined another former Guantanamo detainee to assume leadership of AQAP, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee said in a document about detainees who resume terrorism.
The U.S. State Department notes that he was publicly identified in January 2009 as the deputy leader of AQAP.
The killing comes at the same time of increased drone strikes over the last few weeks, including a drone strike that killed five suspected al Qaeda militants in Hadramawt province last week.
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I'd be mad at the west as well if I had a penis nose.
must be enjoying 72 donkeys in hell .. these pple love beastilaty
lols guys looks constipated .... ROLF
"Yemeni forces" did not kill al-Shihri, a U.S. drone did.
This guy had 12 yr olds beheaded and ordered men and women to blow themselves to kill his enemies. Ifor one am glad he's dead.
Another cold blooded murder to be glorified over there. By glorifying these wanton killings we are proving to the world that Ronald Reagan who boasted back in 1981 that we're not living in a sick society was wrong!!! I get aggravated at these right-wing nutjobs here who cheer these cold blooded murders on! Now I expect to see a whole bunch of them doing it! How repulsive!
George, they just made sure some other poor b a stard died for his cause instead of one of us.
Now let us turn our attention towards India and drone the heck out of these budding terrorists.
TERRORIST GROUPS IN INDIA
• RASHTRIYA SWAYAM SEWAK SHANG (R.S.S.)
• VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD
• HINDU MUNNANI
• ARYA SAMAJ
• SHIV SENA
• BHARATIYA JANATA PARISHAD
• SANT SAMITI
• HINDU MAHASABHA
• BAAJRANG DAL
LEADERS: L.K. Advani/ Ashok Singhal/ Bala Saheb Devaras/ Bal Thackeray/ A.B. Vajpayee/ Savarkar/ Baikunnth Lal Sharma “Prem”/ Balraj Madhok/ The Shankaracharya of Puri, Niranjan Dev Theerth/ Rama Gopalan/ Variyar – Vishwan Hindu Parishad/ Dharmalinga Nadar/ Cho Ramaswamy
Hooray!!!
One less towel head! Hahahahahahahha
And one more cold blooded murder too, Hahahahahahaha!!! I guess that this will make these right-wing nutjobs here awfully happy! What a blood thirsty bunch we have here!!!