Updated: Al Qaeda #2, Saed al Shehri not Captured in Yemen, Not Yousef either
A follow up to our earlier post: Yousef (not Saed) al Shehri Accidentally Captured, Updated: Maybe Saed
Smart money bet that Yemen’s announcement of the (accidental) capture of Saed al Shehri would be bogus, as was the three deaths of al Qaeda leader Qasim al Reimi who is quite alive.
So far Yemen’s “All Out War” on al Qaeda yielded zero among the top leadership but lots and lots of false reporting and propaganda to the contrary. Its been like this all along.
Update: Yousef al Shehri was killed in October 2009 trying to cross into Saudi Arabia, dressed in women’s clothes. Who the heck had the traffic accident and is custody is anyone’s guess at this point, but odds are high that its not anyone of significance or even associated with al Qaeda. Does the Yemeni government just pull a name out of a hat when it comes up with this stuff?
Yemen Observer: YEMEN – The last issue of the Yemen Observer, the al-Qaeda militant that was captured is not Saeed al-Shehri who is the deputy Amir of al-Qaeda AKAP but another militant known as Yusuf al-Shehri. As a result of this error the Yemen Observer apologizes to its readers for this error.
This story is that 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, 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 province near the borders of Marib province. All the militants in the car were captured.
