U.S. killed a top al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, reports say by SeanDNaylor
The leader of al-Qaida’s Yemen branch is believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this year.
For more than five years, al-Raymi, a native of Yemen, had eluded U.S. forces as he led what experts sometimes refer to as al-Qaida’s “most dangerous franchise.” If confirmed, his death would be “very significant,” said Mick Mulroy, who was deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East until late last year.
Al-Raymi, 41, had been on the United States’ radar for years. After training other militants in al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan during the 1990s, he returned to Yemen and became a commander of AQAP, according to the U.S. government’s Rewards for Justice website. In 2005, he was sentenced to five years in prison for planning to assassinate the U.S. ambassador, but he escaped the following year.
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