PREVIEW: #ALQAEDA: #AQAP: Conversation with Bill Roggio, of @LongWarJournal @FDD, re the new emir of the lethal AQAP branch of Al Qaeda -- and the history of the group now secure from battle in the broken Yemen. More later.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
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1939 Yemen
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| 0:15.6 | prosper tomorrow. This is John Batche, in conversation with my colleague Bill |
| 0:21.2 | Rajuoy, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's, |
| 0:24.4 | returned to the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula announcement of a new Amir, a man who was |
| 0:30.2 | associated with success in the past. This is Yemen, the Middle East |
| 0:35.4 | dominated by Yemen these days because of the Houthis of North Yemen. However, the |
| 0:40.7 | Al Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula is all through the country and is often presented |
| 0:46.3 | a military phase. |
| 0:48.1 | It is unknown now how they're working with the Uthys, if at all. Significance here is that AQAP has shown evidence in the past of being |
| 0:57.2 | extremely good at recruiting and very good at creative attacks. It is not in any fashion deterred or defeated by activities of these last years. |
| 1:07.0 | Bill analyzes the three amirs and references the fact that we're looking at an organization that wants us to know |
| 1:14.9 | how powerful it is in the Middle East. Bill Rajo, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, |
| 1:20.8 | analyzing AQAP. |
| 1:22.8 | Yes, his name was Sade bin a Teth al-O-Waki. |
| 1:26.2 | He's a member of the al-A-Waki clan or tribe. |
| 1:29.8 | It's a very influential tribe within Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. |
| 1:34.2 | He's now the fourth leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula since its founding in, |
| 1:40.2 | I want to say it was around 2008, 2009 that AQAP was formed. Its first leader, Nasar al-Wahashi, |
| 1:48.6 | was Osama bin Laden's aid to camp. He was succeeded by a when he would be |
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