| |
| |
 |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
SANAA: Thirty-four suspected Al-Qaeda members were killed on Thursday in a dawn air raid by the Yemeni army on an area used by the militant group, a security source said.
"The raid was carried out as dozens of members of Al-Qaeda were meeting in Wadi Rafadh," a remote mountainous region some 650 kilometres (400 miles) east of the Yemeni capital, the source said, asking not to be named.
The head of Al-Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula, Nasser al-Whaychi, was present at the meeting, the source said, adding that "members of the group including Saad al-Fathani and Mohammad Ahmed Saleh al-Oumir were among those killed".
The source was unable to say what had happened to Whaychi, but he indicated that Oumir was the person who had recently made a public appearance at a meeting in Abyane of which Al-Jazeera television showed a video.
"Saudis and Iranians at the Wadi Rafadh meeting were also among the dead," said the source, without going into detail.
The operation came a week after a first army raid that killed 30 Al-Qaeda activists in the southeastern Abyane province and which led to the arrest of more than 30 others.
- AFP/so
|
