{"id":319731,"date":"2020-02-07T04:10:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319731"},"modified":"2020-02-07T06:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:06:20","slug":"us-forces-kill-al-qaeda-leader-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-forces-kill-al-qaeda-leader-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"US forces kill Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305881 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-675x420.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that United States forces had killed Qasim al-Rimi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAt the direction of President Trump, the U.S. conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of al-Qa\u2019ida in the Arabian Peninsula and a deputy to al-Qa\u2019ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri,\u201d The White House said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cUnder Rimi, AQAP committed unconscionable violence against civilians in Yemen and sought to conduct and inspire numerous attacks against the United States and our forces. His death further degrades AQAP and the global al-Qa\u2019ida movement, and it brings us closer to eliminating the threats these groups pose to our national security,\u201d President Trump said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe United States, our interests, and our allies are safer as a result of his death.\u00a0 We will continue to protect the American people by tracking down and eliminating terrorists who seek to do us harm,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after AQAP claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at the US Naval Air base.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that United States forces had killed Qasim al-Rimi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). \u201cAt the direction of President Trump, the U.S. conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of al-Qa\u2019ida in the Arabian Peninsula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12539,12540,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319732,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319731\/revisions\/319732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}