US officials believe that the leader of the al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula terrorist group, Qasim al-Raimi, was destroyed in an air strike in Yemen. This, Trend reports with reference to TASS , is stated in an article in The New York Times.
According to the sources of the publication, the United States for several months established where ar-Raimi is located. In November 2019, the CIA received information about the whereabouts of a terrorist from an informant in Yemen. Later, U.S. intelligence searched for it with the help of drones. The United States struck in Yemen in January.
According to the publication, US officials will announce the destruction of al-Raimi when they receive additional confirmation of this information. In the past few years, the United States has repeatedly attacked the positions of terrorists in Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen. US authorities said the group plans to carry out attacks in the United States and European countries.
According to the publication, in Yemen, ar-Raimi was found guilty of planning the murder of the American ambassador in this country. The militant was jailed, but he managed to escape. According to the American side, he was involved in a number of terrorist attacks.
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