abdulwhed alsumae

Introduction By   abdulwhed alsumae Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the product of a merger between the terror group's Yemeni and Saudi branches, is considered al-Qaeda's most dangerous branch of all. AQAP has been bolstering its operations in Yemen over the past few years after key Saudi operatives fled there following a major crackdown in their homeland.               The fighters, including those returning from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, have established sanctuaries among a number of Yemeni tribes, particularly in three provinces bordering Saudi Arabia. The group is estimated to have hundreds of fighters as well as thousands of followers. Al-Qaeda in Yemen, or al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), as it calls itself at the moment, has gone through different phases. During the era of the Afghan Jihad, Arab fighters recruited a large number of Yemenis, and Osama bin Laden relied on them as personal bodyguards. After the U.S. invasion of Afghanista

Islamic schools in Yemen and their relation to terrorism By Abdulwhed AL-sumae Introduction More than four decades have passed since the arrival of hundreds of foreign Salafis to Yemen to study and seek the forensic science and learn Arabic in Salafist sheikhs in a number of Islamic centers located in more than one Yemeni province, most notably the Damaj district in the northern Yemeni province of Saada Which was founded by the late Sheikh Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadai in 1979. Dozens of convoys of Salafist students from Arab, Western and Eastern countries arrived in a formal way to seek knowledge at Sheikh Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wada'i's center, and then moved to other centers in the central Yemen crossing area, the southern city of Lahj and other Islamic centers in Marib and Sana'a. Yemen has received thousands of foreigners, including Westerners, to learn Arabic or the principles of Islam at universities or religious schools, sometimes out of control of the autho

Al-Qaeda field leader killed and his associates killed during a raid on Yemeni security in Abyan By abdulwhed Al-sumae senior al-Qaeda leader, the wing of the Arabian Peninsula, was assassinated 18 April  and his facilities in clashes with security forces in Al-Wadeeh, the president's hometown in Abyan province. Security forces and residents said troops from the Rapid Intervention Division of the security belt in Abyan launched a raid on a hideout used by armed elements of al-Qaeda in the village of Dubli in Al-Wadeeh Directorate   In the details, a security official said that "after the monitoring and tracking of wanted persons raided the security force and a grave used by the leader of the base Hussein Ali Baizri, who has previously issued threats to attack against the forces of the belt and the UAE forces, and his companion Murad Dubbly Al Batani named" Abu Hamza. " The source added: "The two

Who benefited from the Yemeni war By Abdulwhed Alsomiee Introduction The militant Islamist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was formed in January 2009 through a union of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of  al-Qaeda , when thousands of mujahedeen returned to Yemen after fighting the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. The roots of the organization reach back to the 1990s, when mujahedeen who had been fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan, including both Yemenis and foreigners whose own countries refused to let them return, resettled in Yemen and were repatriated by the ruling Saleh regime, Osama bin Laden was among a group of foreign Afghan veterans who resettled in Yemen. Bin Laden began training and financing jihadists in the country in the early 1990s, and formed a militant group called Islamic Jihad in Yemen. AQAP remained highly active. Many Yemenis suspect that the government, in spite of its collaboration with the U.S., also maintained ties with AQAP