THE SAS has been fighting Al Qaeda forces of Evil in Yemen. Our elite servicemen are thought to have been involved in hunting leaders of Al Qaeda In The ÂArabian Peninsula (AQAP), Âtargeting bomb-makers.The revelation comes days after a double agent with British links infiltrated AQAP, posing as a jacket wallah, and escaped with their latest "undetectable" bomb designed to bring down a US-bound passenger jet.
It is believed that thanks to his information a CIA drone strike in a mountainous region of Yemen killed AQAP leader Fahd al-Quso.
He was on the FBI's most wanted list with a £4million bounty on his head. Now this reward seems likely to go to the MI6-trained agent.
He could also be eligible for a further £20million from the US State department for preventing a Âterrorist attack.
Reports suggested yesterday the agent was born in Yemen not Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
and acquired a British passport as he had worked and studied here.
It is believed he spent time at a language school in the Yemen capital Sana'a, where he may have been recruited as a suicide bomber.
The Saudi secret service, the Mabahith, had already recruited him while working closely with MI6, whose expertise in handling infiltration agents is world renowned.
Intelligence expert and author Gordon Thomas said: "He told the officers he was willing to join Al Qaeda if he could guarantee his family would be flown to the West. After months of secret meetings with his MI6 controller he was given the cover name Falcon."
Mr Thomas says the agent met the world's most hunted bomb-maker, chemist Ibraham Hassan al Asiri, in remote mountains and was shown how to use the suicide bomb.
Asiri, now believed to be in Saudi Arabia, knows he may not have long to live and has been passing on his bomb-making skills to at least 10 others in Yemen. He is thought to have created the underpants bomb for former London student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who tried to bring down a jet over Detroit and is now in a US jail.
However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the SAS and the CIA are striking back against Al Qaeda in Yemen by monitoring the movements of suspected beturbanned goons and supplying information for drone strikes. Last Wednesday night in the town of Jaar, an Al Qaeda stronghold in the Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an
Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province, a drone killed eight Âmilitants. Intelligence suggested the group had been meeting to discuss renewed terrorist outrages.
One of the group, called Jallad, had been in charge of supplying arms for AQAP fighters in Yemen.
On April 22, the financier of Yemen's Al Qaeda, Mohammed Said al-Omda, also known as Abu Gharib Taizi, was killed in an air strike in the northeast of the country. He was considered AQAP's number four.
A week before that, a US drone destroyed a vehicle carrying Al Qaeda beturbanned goons in Bayda, some 130 miles south-east of the capital Sana'a, killing three leaders. One was Abu Hamza al-Sabri, referred to as the "Emir (prince) of Bayda".
The drone strikes are seen as the prelude to an all-out offensive on Al Qaeda strongholds by the SAS and US troops.
However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
while military action intensifies in Yemen, there are fears this may provoke agents in Britannia to mount attacks during the Olympics in July.
Russian secret agents last week smashed a plot by Islamist Chechen separatists to attack the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Portable surface-to-air missiles, grenade launchers, flame throwers, rifles, explosives and maps were seized.