{"id":33673,"date":"2020-02-06T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=33673"},"modified":"2020-02-06T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:07:30","slug":"33673","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=33673","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-yemen\/u-s-kills-al-qaeda-in-arabian-peninsula-leader-in-yemen-trump-idUSKBN20032Q\">U.S. kills al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula leader in Yemen\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States had killed Qassim al-Raymi, the leader of Islamist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in a counterterrorism operation in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder Rimi, AQAP committed unconscionable violence against civilians in Yemen and sought to conduct and inspire numerous attacks against the United States and our forces,\u201d Trump said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis death further degrades AQAP and the global al-Qa\u2019ida movement, and it brings us closer to eliminating the threats these groups pose to our national security,\u201d the president said. He did not say when Raymi was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The United States regards AQAP as one of the deadliest branches of the al Qaeda network founded by Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>Reports in Yemen have suggested in recent days that Raymi had been killed in a drone strike in Marib. Reuters was unable to verify the reports.<\/p>\n<p>One Yemeni government official told Reuters there had been a drone strike in Marib but it was not Raymi who had been killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. kills al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula leader in Yemen\u00a0 WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States had killed Qassim al-Raymi, the leader of Islamist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in a counterterrorism operation in Yemen. \u201cUnder Rimi, AQAP committed unconscionable violence against civilians in Yemen and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=33673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33683,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33673\/revisions\/33683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}