The deputy leader of al Qaeda has been killed in a US counter-terrorism raid, according to the White House.

Qassim al-Rimi, the terrorist group's Arabian Peninsula leader and the deputy to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in the operation, which was ordered by US President Donald Trump. Qasim al-Raymi was a U.S.-designated terrorist and the emir (leader) of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, (AQAP). He filled this position on June 16, 2015, one day after former AQAP leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi died in a U.S. Drone strike.“Designations of AQAP Leaders Qasim al-Rimi and Nayif al-Qahtani,” U.S. Department of State, May 11, 2010.

Qassim al Rimi, who leads the terror group in the Arabian Peninsula and is second-in-command to Ayman al Zawahiri, was said to have died during a mission ordered by Donald Trump.

Download Books Qasim Alrimi pdfكاملة مجانا بروابط مباشرة وقراءة أونلاين للمؤلفات والأعمال الكاملة. A cofounder of the group, Qassim Al-Rimi, claimed AQAP responsibility for the shooting at Pensacola Naval Base on December 6, 2019 by a Saudi national. AQAP is based in Yemen, and a $10 million reward was posted for information on al-Rimi. Assassination of Qassim al-Rimi—the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula—represents the end of Al-Qaeda 'as we know it,' according to an expert who has studied the terrorist.

The US president said America and its allies were safer as a result of his death - the second major al Qaeda figure to have been killed in Washington-led operations in the space of six months.

Hamza bin Laden, the son of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, died last summer having allegedly been involved in planning several attacks against the US.

Al Rimi's forces have also long been feared to be plotting attacks on the US mainland and last year he claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting at Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, which killed three American troops.

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It is not known when or where al Rimi died, but Mr Trump previously indicated that he had been killed in a US drone strike on a building in eastern Yemen last month.

On 1 February, the president retweeted several other tweets and media reports that seemed to offer confirmation that the strike had killed al Rimi.

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Confirming his death on Thursday, Mr Trump said: 'We will continue to protect the American people by tracking down and eliminating terrorists who seek to do us harm.'

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It is the second US assassination to have been heralded by Mr Trump this year, following that of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.

Al Rimi's branch of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is considered the global network's most dangerous, with its reputation enhanced by the incident in Florida on 6 December.

The gunman, Saudi Air Force officer Mohammed Alshamrani, opened fire inside a classroom at the base, killing three people and injuring another 10.

Among the wounded were two sheriff's deputies, one of whom killed Alshamrani to put an end to his rampage.

In an 18-minute video released after the attack, al Rimi hailed Alshamrani as a 'courageous knight' and a 'hero'.

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The response to the shooting exposed shortcomings in the screening of foreign cadets in American military training programmes and led to more than a dozen Saudi students being sent home.

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The US ordered the trainees to leave the country in January, saying had jihadist or anti-American sentiments on social media pages or had 'contact with child pornography' - including in internet chat rooms.