Al-Qaeda on Sunday confirmed that Hamad bin Hamoud al-Tamimi, a top Saudi leader in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was killed in a suspected U.S. air strike in Yemen last month, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
Al-Tamimi was killed on Feb. 26 in a drone strike that targeted his residence in Marib province, Yemen, reported the American non-profit that monitors Islamic extremist websites.
Yemeni security officials, who spoke to AFP on anonymity, said the air strike was “apparently American,” and it also killed a Yemeni bodyguard. They said al-Tamimi, also known as Abdel Aziz al-Adnani, was AQAP’s consultative council president and judge….