The general said key
Al Qaida leaders who fled Al Mukalla in 2016 were hiding in the valley, with heavy arms the militants looted from military bases in their former strongholds.
Earlier, the Yemeni security forces arrested Mohammad Abdu Saleh Al Hawdali in a raid implemented on December 30, on an
Al Qaida hideout in Hodeida province west of the country.
The first and most obvious point is that children aged 11 have so far not been used by
al Qaida for terrorist acts anywhere in the world.
Bush called
al Qaida in Iraq the perpetrator of the worst violence racking that country and said it was the same group that had carried out the Sept.
The US has identified five senior
Al Qaida operatives who they believe have been to Iran since the U.
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the Afghan forces were making remarkably quick progress against
al Qaida fighters in the valleys, and there were not a lot of ways out.
In 2004, Zarqawi and his terrorist group formally joined
al Qaida, pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden, and he promised to "follow his orders in jihad.
A local military officer knowledgeable about the operation told Gulf News that the Yemeni troops, known as the Hadhrami Elite Forces, had gained control of the entrance points to Al Mousaini valley, besieging
Al Qaida militants who have long used the valley for regrouping and staging attacks against government forces in the province.
Meanwhile, the US military said it had caught a suspected
Al Qaida militant believed to be behind the killing last week of a key Sunni Arab tribal leader in Anbar province.
Al Qaida is is likely to use its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on US soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the America.
US FORCES have arrested a senior
al Qaida terrorist and personal associate of the group's new leader, the top US military spokesman in Iraq said last night.
A national Guardsman is facing charges of attempting to give information to Osama bin Laden's
al Qaida network.
