Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

The family of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Nayif al Qahtani said they do not believe he is dead and denied that he is a senior al Qaeda leader. Qahtani, a Saudi, was designated a terrorist by the US State Department and wasdescribed as a liaison between al Qaeda cells in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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