Al Qaeda Leader Qasim al Reimi Alive? Dead Terrorist Spotted Eating Lunch
Yes here we go yet again… An absolutely predictable update: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) denied that six of its leaders were killed in a Yemeni air strike last week, according to a statement published by the SITE monitoring group on Monday.
“None of the mujahedeen were killed in that unjust and insidious raid; rather, some brothers were slightly wounded,” the Qaeda group said in a statement on jihadist forums, SITE reported.
Original Post: Following Yemen’s announcement that al Qaeda head honcho Qasim al Reimi was killed in an air strike this week along with five others, news is starting to leak out that ooops, maybe not.
Al Reimi had been reported killed in two earlier air strikes but this time the announcement was based on an identification, officials said. Security sources now say that perhaps it was a “hasty” announcement. Tribal sources say another of the six dead men was recently spotted eating lunch with his family, and al Reimi was wounded in the leg and escaped.
We can call it the al Nabi syndrome, reported dead but still alive. Old habits die hard. At best, now we’re back to “maybe al Reimi is dead,” and “maybe the Yemeni government told the truth about al Qaeda for once.” Wait and see mode.
Its hard to say what’s up, really. There were six bodies recovered including al Reimi, the Yemeni officials said. Ah, even I’m doing it now, quoting them like they have a shred of credibility.
Meanwhile the Yemeni journalists are getting smashed (run-over, imprisoned, fined and kidnapped) without a word from the West and/or the hundreds of foreign journalists who recently discovered Yemen. Even for the open source intel value alone, you think someone would make a peep. I knew something was up today when several Yemeni news sites were mysteriously offline.
Al Teef Questioned sources (security and tribal) in the accuracy of the information declared by the authorities of Yemen that killed 6 of the al-Qaeda, led by military commander, Kassem al-Raimi in an air raid carried out by forces Security Council on Friday past.
Tribal sources said the “online source,” that the information is incorrect and that the air strike, succeeded in killing two members of the organization is only the first Egyptian Abu Yaman, nicknamed “the benefit of the underground”, the second son of his brother Amar Waeli, fled with the rest of the group fled. ” According to those sources “that Qasim al-Rimi was wounded in one of his legs and hand.”
Furthermore, other tribal sources in the province of Marib, the “online source” for the spread of information says that the loss Jaber Alcboigny (Ayedh Jaber al-Shabwani) – official organization in the province – which is the other authorities confirmed killed in the raid, seen on Saturday afternoon at his home and his family, specifically eating lunch at home. “and is not sure that information accurately from other sources.
For his part, a security source refused to confirm the information published yesterday on the Media Center of the Ministry of Interior on the killing of six members of the organization, led by Qasim al-Rimi. He said the security source, who asked not to be named the “online source” it does not have sufficient information on the outcome of the strike so far, but it did not exclude that the information be published in a “hasty.”
