Qassim Al Rimi
Al-Rimi, or Abdullah Ahmed Al-Remi, has been described as an 'important al-Qaeda recruiter', and became wanted by the FBI, and sought in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States. On 3 February 2006, together with 22 others, 12 of them al-Qaeda members, Al-Rimi escaped from a Yemeni jail in Sanaa, according to a BBC. Qasim al-Raymi was a U.S.-designated terrorist and the emir (leader) of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, (AQAP). He filled this position on June 16, 2015, one day after former AQAP leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi died in a U.S. Drone strike.“Designations of AQAP Leaders Qasim al-Rimi and Nayif al-Qahtani,” U.S. Department of State, May 11, 2010. A cofounder of the group, Qassim Al-Rimi, claimed AQAP responsibility for the shooting at Pensacola Naval Base on December 6, 2019 by a Saudi national. AQAP is based in Yemen, and a $10 million reward was posted for information on al-Rimi. Download Books Qasim Alrimi pdfكاملة مجانا بروابط مباشرة وقراءة أونلاين للمؤلفات والأعمال الكاملة.
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U.S. officials believe the leader of Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen was 'likely' killed by an American airstrike earlier this month, a well-placed source told Fox News Friday.
Qassim al-Rimi is believed to have died as a result of the attack but his death has not been confirmed. The airstrike was first reported by The New York Times.
Rimi's Yemen-based network, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is considered to be the most dangerous branch of the global terror group since its creation in 2009.
The CIA learned of al-Rimi's location from an informant in Yemen in November, according to the Times, and began tracking him through aerial surveillance and other means.
The U.S. government issued a $10 million reward for terrorist leader Qassim al-Rimi. (Rewards for Justice)
The CIA did not immediately respond to a Fox News request for comment.
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Rimi, 41, became the leader of AQAP when Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed in a 2015 drone strike.
He previously trained in Afghanistan before returning to Yemen where he was sentenced to five years in prison for plotting to kill an American ambassador. He broke out of prison and rose through the ranks of the group.
In 2017, Rimi released an audio recording mocking President Trump, calling him the 'White House's new fool.' The message came days after a U.S.-led raid against AQAP killed 25 people, including 11 women and children.
The State Department had offered a $10 million bounty for al-Rimi, who was linked to numerous plots against U.S. interest, The New York Times reported.
The CIA believes he was involved in the 2008 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sana that killed 10 guards and four civilians. He is also suspected of having links to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called 'underwear bomber' who attempted to down a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight with plastic explosives on Christmas Day in 2009.
The Al Qaeda affiliate claimed to have organized the attack and supplied him with the bomb.
The airstrike comes in the same month the U.S. targeted Iranian Quds Force Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who American claimed was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops during the Iraq War.
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.
The deputy leader of al Qaeda has been killed in a US counter-terrorism raid, according to the White House.
Qassim al Rimi, who leads the terror group in the Arabian Peninsula and is second-in-command to Ayman al Zawahiri, was said to have died during a mission ordered by Donald Trump.
The US president said America and its allies were safer as a result of his death - the second major al Qaeda figure to have been killed in Washington-led operations in the space of six months.
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Hamza bin Laden, the son of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, died last summer having allegedly been involved in planning several attacks against the US.
Al Rimi's forces have also long been feared to be plotting attacks on the US mainland and last year he claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting at Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, which killed three American troops.
It is not known when or where al Rimi died, but Mr Trump previously indicated that he had been killed in a US drone strike on a building in eastern Yemen last month.
On 1 February, the president retweeted several other tweets and media reports that seemed to offer confirmation that the strike had killed al Rimi.
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Confirming his death on Thursday, Mr Trump said: 'We will continue to protect the American people by tracking down and eliminating terrorists who seek to do us harm.'
It is the second US assassination to have been heralded by Mr Trump this year, following that of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
Al Rimi's branch of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is considered the global network's most dangerous, with its reputation enhanced by the incident in Florida on 6 December.
The gunman, Saudi Air Force officer Mohammed Alshamrani, opened fire inside a classroom at the base, killing three people and injuring another 10.
Among the wounded were two sheriff's deputies, one of whom killed Alshamrani to put an end to his rampage.
In an 18-minute video released after the attack, al Rimi hailed Alshamrani as a 'courageous knight' and a 'hero'.
The response to the shooting exposed shortcomings in the screening of foreign cadets in American military training programmes and led to more than a dozen Saudi students being sent home.
The US ordered the trainees to leave the country in January, saying had jihadist or anti-American sentiments on social media pages or had 'contact with child pornography' - including in internet chat rooms.