Judge of al-Qaeda killed in Marib US airstrike

MARIB, Feb. 28 (YPA) – One of Judges of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was killed in an air strike carried out by a US drone targeting his house in the city of Marib.

Activists from the city of Marib said that Hamad Hammoud al-Othman al-Tamimi, who holds a Saudi national and runs the judicial authority for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed last Sunday, along with one of his companions, in the US strikes on the house al-Tamimi rented recently in Hosoun Al-Jalal, east of the city.

The Saudi coalition forces in Marib had refused to reveal the details of the raid and cordoned off the area that targeted by the US raid last Sunday.

Previously, Al-Qaeda has mourned many of its leaders who were killed in air strikes while they were in the coalition-held Wadi Abaidah area of Marib, while they were participating in the fighting with the coalition forces on Marib fronts.

On January 13, 2023, al-Qaeda announced the killing of the most prominent explosives expert in the leadership organization, Hassan al-Hadrami, and his brother, as a result of an air strike on their car near a gas station in al-Samdah area of Wadi Abaidah, east of the province.

On December 9, 2015, Ansar al-Sharia” organization (Al-Qaeda of Yemen) published a documentary entitled “Guards of Sharia”, which presented the curriculum vitae of the four most prominent leaders who come to succeed the former leader of Al-Qaeda, Qassem Al-Rimi, known “Abu Hurairah Al-Sanani”, including Al-Tamimi.

According to the organization’s video, Al-Tamimi, who joined Al-Qaeda in 2002, was arrested in 2007, and placed in Al-Tarfiya prison in Al-Qassim area of Saudi Arabia.

Al-Tamimi joined Al-Qaeda in Yemen after the Saudi authorities released him in 2012.

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