Sanaa: The deputy leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and one of the most wanted men in Saudi Arabia has been killed, SITE Intelligence Group citing a tweet by a prominent jihadist, Abdulla bin Muhammad, announced on Wednesday.
According to reports, the site which monitors global activities around the world said that Abu Sufyan al-Azdi, also known as Saeed al-Shahri, died “after a long journey in fighting the Zio-Crusader campaign.
It was not clear how al-Azdi died. SITE said media reports indicated he died of injuries incurred in a December drone strike. Meanwhile, the officials in the group’s home base of Yemen said they had no evidence of his death.
Three senior Yemeni Defense Ministry officials told media that the country had no evidence proving his death.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the security official said, “We have no evidence to prove his death and our government continues to hunt down the leaderships of the terror network.”
Al-Azdi has been reported dead in the past, the latest incident being in September when Yemen claimed he was killed in an air raid. An audio message released the next month supposedly featured al-Azdi saying he was still alive.
Al-Azdi spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay before being released in 2007. A Saudi national, he escaped Saudi Arabia to Yemen in 2008.
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