Yemen's army kills the "number two" of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

The "number two" of the terrorist network Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Said al Shahri, was killed Monday in an attack by Yemeni Army in Hadramut province, in the east of the country, as reported by the Yemeni defense ministry. In a brief statement, the department indicated that the operation of the Yemeni armed forces has caused l to death six suspected al Qaeda fighters , who accompanied Al Shahri. The ministry, which did not specify in your letter whether the attack was carried out by Yemeni warplanes or ground forces, has seen the death of the leader of Al Qaeda "a painful blow to the remnants of the terrorist elements." Al Shahri, nicknamed Abu Sefian to Sida, is the Yemeni deputy Naser al Wahishi, the emir of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, since the announcement of the founding of the organization in Yemen in 2009.

Guantanamo Prisoner

The deceased was a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay , where he was released in 2008, when he returned to Saudi Arabia shortly after moving to Yemen. In February 2011, the Yemeni authorities announced the death of al Shahri in an explosion caused by terrorists manage several devices in the province of Abian, in the south, but this information was false. On Sunday, Yemeni President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi, said security forces were able to defeat three simultaneous car bomb attacks that Al Qaeda sought to perpetrate in the capital Sanaa and in two other cities. Al Qaeda has increased its activity in Yemen due to the unstable situation in the country since January 2011 in popular revolts broke out against President Ali Abdullah Saleh. After that, Saleh ceded power last February to Hadi, who was then vice president, the Yemeni army launched a military operation in the south of the country and managed to free the areas controlled terrorist organization.