US strike kills senior Qaeda official in Yemen
07 May 2015 |
6:28 pm
A US air strike in Yemen last month killed the senior Al-Qaeda official who appeared in a video claiming the deadly January attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, a monitor said Thursday. Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, who was killed in the April strike along with his eldest son and other fighters in the port city…
A US air strike in Yemen last month killed the senior Al-Qaeda official who appeared in a video claiming the deadly January attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, a monitor said Thursday.
Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, who was killed in the April strike along with his eldest son and other fighters in the port city of Mukalla, also appeared in Al-Qaeda videos claiming the capture and death of US hostage Luke Somers, SITE Intelligence Group said
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