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Yemen’s Al Qaeda regenerates amid battle for the north Mar 17,2021 - Last updated at Mar 17,2021 Forces loyal to Yemen’s Saudi-backed government sit in the back of a pick-up truck as they deploy during clashes with Houthi rebel fighters west of the country’s third-city of Taez on Tuesday (AFP photo) By Fawaz Al Haidari Agence France-Presse ABU DHABI — Years of setbacks have weakened the once mighty Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda, but the militants are seizing the opportunity to regenerate while the government and Houthi rebels are locked in a fight to the death in the north. Government security officials and tribal leaders told AFP that the fierce battle for Marib, which has raged for the past month, is creating a security vacuum that is being exploited by the extremists.
officials as the al qaeda figure most determined to attack the u.s. it was under al wuhayshi that al qaeda tried to bring down a series of aircraft with bombs hidden in shoes, underwear, even printer cartridges. they all failed to detonate. but what scared authorities was that each of the devices was able to get past what the u.s. thought was state-of-the-art airport security. >> it's a significant development that he's dead. this is a blow to the al qaeda movement overall. >> reporter: al wuhayshi, who rose from osama bin laden's top aide to number two in al qaeda worldwide, was last seen in this 2014 video from yemen, rallying his fighters in a large, open-air meeting, as if to defy the cia predator drones that flew overhead. and now there is word that the cia drones targeted a second al qaeda leader this one in libya. the leader of the al qaeda group there that took over an oil refinery and killed dozens of hostages, including three americans.
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than ever before. you agree with that, colonel? >> i agree in parts. what i'd say. at the moment we're seeing the general manager, if you like, of al qaeda on the arabian peninsula, al wuhayshi. their directive is to protect the homeland that came from zawahiri. and al qaeda and iraq is headed up by baghdadi has an objective of undermining the shiite and iraqi government. i'd also say there are very different objectives going on with also their own in ter futile disputes as well. >> has the obama administration given out too much information? >> we don't know. we will have this conversation a week from now and if there is an attack we'll look back and say thank goodness we evacuated people, there would have been more tragedy.
a senior u.s. official tells abc news that the plot started in yemen, and u.s. officials are frantically searching for vehicle bombs al qaeda wants it use to blow up the u.s. embassy there and perhaps others as well. abc news has also learned that through surveillance and electronic eavesdropping, more was discovered. including communications between al qaeda affiliates and someone in the u.s. not just electronic conversations, but through the mail as well. the u.s. does not know the content of the letters. >> in terrorist communications, in general, the simpler more primitive forms of communication, the more effective they are. >> reporter: this is who al qaeda's zawahiri has been communicating with in yemen, al-wuhayshi. small bombs that could be placed inside a human body, especially dangerous if the bomb carrier boarded a flight.
news that the plot started in yemen, and u.s. officials are frantically searching for vehicle bombs al qaeda wants to use to blow up the u.s. embassy there and perhaps others as well. abc news has also learned that through surveillance and electronic eavesdropping, more was discovered. including communications between al qaeda affiliates and someone in the u.s. not just electronic conversations, but through the mail as well. the u.s. does not know the content of the letters. >> in terrorist communications, in general, the simpler more primitive forms of communication, the more effective they are. >> reporter: this is who al qaeda's zawahiri has been communicating with in yemen, al-wuhayshi. one of those behind the underwear bomb, printer cartridge bombs and surgically implanted explosives. small bombs that could be placed inside a human body, especially dangerous if the bomb carrier boarded a flight. >> this group is fairly