2024-03-11T05:23:09+00:00
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/ Al-Qaeda within the Arabian Peninsula introduced the killing of its chief, Khaled Batarfi, with out offering causes for this, based on a press release by the SITE Middle, which screens “jihadi” media shops.
The middle indicated that the group’s authorized official, Ibrahim al-Qusi, confirmed in a recording broadcast yesterday, Sunday, that Batarfi, the group’s chief since February 2020, introduced that “Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki is the brand new chief of the group within the Arabian Peninsula,” which the US classifies as a terrorist.
Batarfi, a Saudi born in Riyadh in his early forties, assumed management of the group in February 2020 after its chief, Qasim al-Rimi, was killed in an American drone assault, noting that the latter’s predecessor, Nasser al-Wahayshi, was killed by an American drone bombing in Yemen in June 2015.
Earlier than assuming management of the group, Batarfi labored as a Sharia choose and official spokesman for Al-Qaeda within the Arabian Peninsula. In 2018, the US categorized him as a “world terrorist” and supplied a reward of 5 million {dollars} in change for offering details about him.
As for his successor, Al-Awlaki, he’s a Yemeni, also called Saad Muhammad Atef, a member of the group’s Shura Council and on the record of the American “Rewards for Justice Program.” America supplied a reward of as much as six million {dollars} to anybody who supplies details about him.
The US State Division says that Al-Awlaki “publicly known as for assaults on the US and its allies.”
America considers Al-Qaeda within the Arabian Peninsula, which is predicated in Yemen, “essentially the most harmful department of Al-Qaeda.”
Supply: Sky Information Arabia