WorldNews Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 [attach=full]21408[/attach]A US air strike in Yemen last month killed the senior Al-Qaeda official who appeared in a video claiming the deadly January attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, a monitor said Thursday. Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, who was killed in the April strike along with his eldest son and other fighters in the port city of Mukalla, also appeared in Al-Qaeda videos claiming the holding and death of US hostage Luke Somers, SITE Intelligence Group said. The announcement of his death came in a video posted Thursday on Twitter by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- which Washington considers the international terror network's deadliest branch. SITE described Ansi as "a senior AQAP official and military strategist". Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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