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Image copyright AFP Image caption Two file pictures show jihadist leader Qasim al-Raymi The United States has killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), President Donald Trump said.Qasim al-Raymi, who has led the jihadist group since 2015, was killed in a US operation in Yemen, the White House said.The jihadist leader had…
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Two file images reveal jihadist leader Qasim al-Raymi.
The United States has actually eliminated the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), President Donald Trump said.
Qasim al-Raymi, who has led the jihadist group considering that 2015, was killed in a United States operation in Yemen, the White Home said.
The jihadist leader had been connected to a series of attacks on Western interests in the 2000 s.
He took over the leadership after his predecessor was eliminated by a United States drone strike.
AQAP was formed in 2009 from 2 regional spin-offs of Al-Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, with the goal of toppling US-backed governments and eliminating all Western impact in the region.
Rumours of Raymi’s death began distributing in late January. In action, AQAP launched an audio message with Raymi’s voice on 2 February in which he said AQAP was behind a deadly shooting at a United States marine base in Pensacola, Florida
The shooting took place in December, and the message may have been tape-recorded earlier.
The statement from the White House confirmed Raymi’s death but it did not state when he was killed.
” His death further degrades AQAP and the international al-Qaeda motion, and it brings us closer to eliminating the risks these groups present to our nationwide security,” the statement read.
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Yemeni fighters faithful to the government close in on a suspected location of AQAP in2018
” The United States, our interests, and our allies are much safer as a result of his death.”
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Become a founding memberRaymi was a trainer at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan in the 1990 s. He took a trip to Yemen in 2004, where he was locked up for 5 years in connection with a plot to assault five foreign embassies in the capital.
He is thought to have overseen the development of al-Qaeda in Yemen.
United States officials as soon as described AQAP as “the most active functional franchise” of al-Qaeda beyond Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The majority of its attacks have been in Yemen, where it has actually made the most of political instability that has plagued the country for many years.
It is believed to have actually been behind a big number of attacks in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, in which numerous people have actually have been eliminated, in addition to a series of advanced airline company bomb plots targeting the United States that were directly foiled.
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