White House announces killing of Al Qaeda leader in Yemen Qasim al Rimi
The Sunni militant group has thrived in the chaos of years of civil war between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and Shiite rebels who control the capital.
"His death further degrades AQAP and the global al Qaeda movement, and it brings us closer to eliminating the threats these groups pose to our national security."In the Pensacola attack, eight people were wounded, including two responding sheriff's deputies, before police shot dead the assailant. The SITE monitoring group said he had posted a short manifesto on Twitter prior to the attack that read: "I'm against evil, and America as a whole has turned into a nation of evil."
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