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2021-02-06 Arabia
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U.N. Report Says Qaida's Leader in Yemen under Arrest
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| BLUF: AQAP Number 1 Khalid Batarfi tied up, AQAP Number 2 Saad Atef al-Awlaqi toes up last October; Mr. Batarfi in office 8 months. |
 [AnNahar] The leader of al-Qaeda's Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i affiliate has been under arrest for several months, according to a United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
report released on Thursday, in what will be seen as a huge breakthrough in the fight against the global jihadist threat.
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The document said Khalid Batarfi, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
(AQAP) for just under a year, was arrested and his deputy, Saad Atef al-Awlaqi, died during an "operation in Ghayda City, al-Mahrah Governorate, in October."
So the Number 3 has been running things for five months? He’s about due, then. The report -- filed to the Security Council from a U.N. monitoring team specializing in bully boy groups -- is the first official confirmation of Batarfi's arrest following unverified reports.
The wide-ranging U.N. assessment, summarizing global potential jihadist threats, did not disclose the murderous Moslem's whereabouts or reveal any further details of the October operation.
But the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the online activity of jihadist organizations, noted "unconfirmed reports" in October that Batarfi had been arrested by Yemeni security forces and then handed to 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 the Soddy national face...
AQAP revealed it had appointed Batarfi, believed to be in his early 40s, as its leader in February 2020 following the death of his predecessor Qassim al-Rimi in a US air strike in Yemen.
Goodness. February to October in the same year? He’d barely have had time to find the executive bathroom and special dining room, never mind making his mark on the organization. Talk about getting inside the training cycle! Batarfi, who was designated a global terrorist by the U.S. State Department in 2018, has appeared in numerous AQAP videos over recent years, according to SITE, and appeared to have been Rimi's deputy and group front man.
It’s not a good sign when an organization has to reach into the ranks of the publicists to find their chief executive, spunky-girl-makes-good Hallmark movies to the contrary. Washington considers AQAP to be the worldwide jihadist network's most dangerous branch, and has waged a long-running drone war against the leaders of the group.
AQAP grabbed credit for the 2019 mass shooting at a U.S. naval base in Florida, in which a Saudi air force officer killed three American sailors.
It also said it was behind the 2009 'pants bomb' plot, in which an bomb failed to detonate on a Northwest Airlines flight as it approached the U.S. city of bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
on Christmas Day. where a Nigerian man trained in Yemen tried to detonate an bomb on a plane as it approached the US city of Detroit.
The Sunni bully boy group thrived in the chaos of years of civil war between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and Shiite Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
sRimi had himself succeeded Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who was killed in a U.S. dronezap in Yemen in June 2015.
- 'DISSENTIONS AND DESERTIONS' -
AQAP has carried out operations against both the Huthis and government forces as well as sporadic attacks abroad, including on the offices of the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo
... A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
in 2015.
But analysts say its abilities on the ground have dwindled, although it still inspires attacks carried out by "lone wolf" jihadists or former operatives.
Yemen has been wracked by conflict since 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition intervened after the Iran-backed Huthis seized control of the capital Sanaa.
The conflict has since killed tens of thousands of people, relief agencies say, with 80 percent of the population surviving on aid in what the U.N. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
 ...Candidate for president in 2020. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. ...
earlier Thursday ended U.S. backing for the war in his first major speech on foreign affairs since entering the White House last month.
He said the United States would end all support including connected arms sales for Riyadh and vowed support for U.N. efforts to reach a ceasefire and revive peace talks between the government and Houthis.
AQAP, which has not acknowledged Batarfi's arrest, extols the virtues of "martyrdom" and the rare capture of one of its senior operatives alive will be seen as an embarrassing setback.
"In addition to leadership losses, AQAP is suffering an erosion of its ranks caused by dissentions and desertions, led primarily by one of Batarfi's ex-lieutenants, Abu Omar al-Nahdi," the U.N. report states.
The document covers numerous potential security threats around the world and, in one passage, says that no U.N. member state has been able to confirm reports of the death from natural causes of al-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
in October.
It also warns that "a rash of pre-planned (jihadist) attacks may occur" around the world once restrictions put in place to stem the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic are lifted. 
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