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Qassim al-Rimi, the head of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen tits up.

2020-02-01

1. Some news: Last November, an on-the-ground informant in Yemen shared a key piece of information with the United States: The location of Qassim al-Rimi, the head of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the region. This week, a CIA drone took aim at him: https://t.co/UAWpnsstpE via @NYTimes
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) January 31, 2020

For those who used up their NYT free articles for the month, Yahoo has the basics:

The New York Times said three current or former U.S. officials “expressed confidence” that Qasim al-Raymi, the emir of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was killed in Yemen, although there was no official confirmation.

U.S. forces had been tracking al-Raymi for months, and there was a $10 million price on his head.

It is unclear whether the strike was carried out by the U.S. military or the CIA. Spokespersons for U.S. Central Command, the National Security Council and the CIA declined to comment.

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.”

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.

Posted by:3dc

#1 They're not officially dead until the ululation is properly complrted.

Posted by: jpal 2020-02-01 15:25

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