Yousef (not Saed) al Shehri Accidentally Captured, Updated: Maybe Saed
Update: the Yemen Observer deleted the story below and rewrote the article to indicate it was Saed not Yousef al Shehri that crashed the car and was captured. The first link is dead. Tacky tacky.
Original Post: The Yemeni government’s English language mouthpiece Yemen Observer is conflating al Qaeda operative Yousef al Shehri with top al Qaeda in Yemen leader Saed al Shehri (Saudi, ex-Gitmo).
A car carrying members of al-Qaeda was turned over when attempted to bypass a newly established sudden checkpoint by the Yemeni security units today and resulted in the capture of Yusuf al-Shehri, the second person in command (ed- No, he’s not.) of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, security source told the Yemen Observer.
The car was going in a high speed and was carrying al-Shehri and other al-Qaeda militants and flipped over in the district of Sylan in Shabwah near the borders of Marib province. All the militants were captured.
Yusuf al-Shehri, born on September 8, 1985, is a Saudi Arabian national and former Guantanamo Bay detainee no. 114. According to the U.S. military, he is also the brother of Sa’d Muhammad Mubarak al-Shehri (a.k.a. Abu Abdelrahman al-Najdi), a “known al Qaida operative.
(ed- Saud) Al-Shehri in 2008 was appointed as the vice-Amir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula after the integration of al-Qaeda in Yemen and Saudia Arabia.
Yesterday, security authorities arrested three al-Qeada militants in al-Jawf who were in disguise wearing military uniforms. (??!!) Six other al-Qaeda terrorists were killed on Friday by an air strike. (ed- no its not certain yet. Reports indicate only two may have been killed and al Reimi escaped.) The killed militants were identified as Qassim al-Rimi, Amar Obad al-Wayly, Saleh al-Tais, Aidh Jaber al-Shabwani, Abdullah Hadi al-Tais, and Abu Ayman al-Mesri (Egyptian). Two more terrorists escaped after their two cars were completely destroyed; security forces are currently hunting them down.
Ok does that clarify things?
