Tag: saeed al-shehri
By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Wed Apr 10, 2013 at 09:12:46 PM EST
Tags: saeed al-shehri (all tags)
Posted on Wed Apr 10, 2013 at 09:12:46 PM EST
Tags: saeed al-shehri (all tags)
Saeed al-Shehri (also spelled al-Shihri) the second in command of AQAP in Yemen is not dead. He released a tape today critical of Saudi Arabia. This is the third time he's been declared dead and later surfaced, alive and well. (The first time was in 2009 and the second time was in 2012.) The former Guantanamo detainee, refugee from the Saudi reconciliation program, and co-founder of AQAP, seems to have as many lives as Ilyas Kashmiri.
What I really want to know is what happened to young Yousef, al-Shehri's stepson, whose father has been trying to find him since 2009. It reads like a soap opera, kind of like a terrorist version of Elian Gonzales. [More....]
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