The Yemeni government claims it has killed Said al-Shehri, the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Reuters reports. Shehri, a Saudi, was killed along with six other militants in the remote Hadramout province in the country’s east, the government says.
Washington has claimed that AQAP, recently targeted with drone attacks, is “the most dangerous wing of al Qaeda,” and Shehri was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of Yemen’s most wanted individuals. US officials believe Shehri, who spent six years in Guantanamo, was involved in the 2011 attack on the US embassy in Sanaa.
