He is a Saudi national, Hamad bin Hamud al-Tamimi, also known as Abdel Aziz al-Adnani, who was killed in a UAV strike on February 26 at his home in Marib province, northern Yemen.
The al-Qaeda jihadist group has confirmed that a senior operative has been killed in an airstrike, believed to be American, in war-torn Yemen, the SITE Intelligence Group reported on Sunday.
The death of Hamad bin Hammoud al-Tamimi, a Saudi national, in the province of Marib, in northern Yemen, was reported to AFP last Wednesday by two Yemeni officials, who introduced him as a “judge” and “chairman of an advisory body” of the jihadist organization.
The Saudi national, also known as Abdel Aziz al-Adnani, was killed in a UAV strike on February 26 at his home in the region, confirmed a statement by Al-Qaeda’s arm in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) that was spotted by the SITE Intelligence Group, an organization specializing in monitoring the activity of extremist organizations.
In the announcement, he presents himself as the “media officer” of AKAH, while it is stated that in the past he “handled the operations abroad” of the organization, “some of which were aimed at American interests”.
He spent four years in prison in Saudi Arabia before moving to Yemen in 2013, before the country’s bloody war broke out between the government, which is backed by a military alliance led by Riyadh, and the Shiite Houthi rebels, who are backed by from Iran. Senior al-Qaeda official dead
According to the same statement, another “responsible” for the AQAP media, identified as Abu Nasser al-Hadrami, was also a “victim of the attack”, notes the SITE Intelligence Group.
AKAH has launched attacks in Yemen against both the Houthis and government forces. The group has also claimed responsibility for attacks in the US and Europe.
An official in Marib province told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity, that the airstrike was “probably American”. Washington has not claimed responsibility for the raid to date.
In late January another raid, also attributed by Yemeni officials to the US, resulted in the killing of three members of the AKAH.
The war in Yemen has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, directly and indirectly—due to disease and hunger—and has plunged the country, the poorest on the Arabian peninsula, into one of the world’s worst humanitarian tragedies.
Source :Skai
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