Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli
Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli (1977 in Yemen – 3 June 2011) became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei.
Al-Wa'eli was killed on 3 June 2011 by a US drone strike in Yemen. AQAP confirmed his death one month later.[1]
12 February 2002 terror alert[edit]
On 11 February 2002, Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli was named in a suspected Yemen plot, for which he was among 17 suspected terrorists added to the FBI's third major "wanted" list, the "Seeking Information" list.
By February 2003, the FBI removed 6 suspects already jailed rearranged its wanted lists. Al-Wa'eli was one of the remaining eleven Yemen plot suspects.[2] By 2006, al-Wa'eli had been archived and removed from the FBI's current main wanted page, and were no longer included in the official count of suspects.[3]
Whether foiled, aborted, or merely incorrect specific intelligence, the 12 February 2002 attack never occurred. However, other attacks and plots in Yemen soon followed.
Yemeni airstrike[edit]
On 15 January 2010, The New York Times reported that Ammar al-Waeli, "an important arms dealer for Al Qaeda" escaped an airstrike in Yemen which killed "at least five senior members of Al Qaeda’s Arabian branch".[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Roggio, Bill, "AQAP confirms deaths of 2 commanders in US airstrike", Long War Journal, 21 July 2011.
- ^ "Seeking Information - War on Terrorism". Archived from the original on February 2, 2003. Retrieved June 3, 2003.
- ^ February 2002 Seeking Information Alert Archived October 17, 2002, at the Wayback Machine, photos with the remaining names, as archived by FBI
- ^ Senior Qaeda Figures Killed in Attack, Yemen Says,“A vehicle was seen leaving the area”