“The body of Abu Ayub Al Jazairi, a local (Algerian) leader of Al Qaeda, was found in Wadi Dhiqa,” a valley located between the southern provinces of Shabwa and Abyan, the ministry said on its 26sep.net website. “Another local chief, (Pakistani) Nakhii, aka Mikassa, was killed by our brave soldiers, as well as another, named Abu Dojana (a Saudi),” the ministry said, adding that both had died in Shabwa.
The dead include two foreign commanders.
One is Abu Islam Al Shishani, who had Chechen links, and Abu Muslim Al Uzbeki, who hailed from Uzbekistan.
Separately, Yemeni security forces on Wednesday shot dead the head of the “terror cell” behind the killing of a Frenchman in Sanaa earlier this week, the country’s supreme security committee said.
Wael Abdullah Masood Al Waeli, “who supervised the killing of the French citizen,” was killed in a clash with security forces in the capital, the committee said.
Another member of the cell was also shot dead while a third was arrested, it said, according to Saba state news agency.
