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		</div><p>A suspected US drone strike destroyed a building housing al Qaida militants last week in eastern Yemen, tribal leaders said amid reports it killed a senior leader of the terror group.</p>
<p>US President Donald Trump has retweeted several reports that the January 25 strike killed Qassim al-Rimi, but it has not been officially confirmed.</p>
<p>The Yemeni tribal leaders said the drone strike took place in the Wadi Ubaidah area in the eastern province of Marib. The area is known as a stronghold for al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">2)Will be interesting to see which <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AQAP?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AQAP</a> official warranted the intel &; military resources required to carry out a precise U.S. drone attack&#8230;AQAP in recent years has dwindled. As it stands now, top publicly known officials are leader Qassim al-Rimi and official Ibrahim al-Qosi. <a href="https://t.co/GlGgygCqgB">pic.twitter.com/GlGgygCqgB</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rita_Katz/status/1221887263937830912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>They said at least three explosions hit the area, and the building was set ablaze.</p>
<p>It was not immediately clear how many militants were in the building at the time or their identities.</p>
<p>The tribal leaders said a handful of al Qaida militants arrived on the scene just after the strike and cordoned off the area.</p>
<p>Mr Trump on Saturday retweeted several articles that seemed to offer confirmation al-Rimi, one of AQAP’s founders and its current chief, was killed. The White House did not comment on whether his retweeting was confirmation of the death.</p>
<p>Al-Rimi succeeded Nasser al-Wahishi, who was killed in a US drone strike in 2015, as the top leader of AQAP.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">3)Breaking: It appears that Qasim al-Rimi, leader of the Yemen-based <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AQAP?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AQAP</a>, was the individual targeted &; killed in a U.S. drone strike on Saturday, January 25 in Wadi Ubaidah, east of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sanaa?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Sanaa</a> &#8211; a longtime stronghold for the group. AQAP has yet to officially confirm his death. <a href="https://t.co/ohDcH2d8wz">pic.twitter.com/ohDcH2d8wz</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rita_Katz/status/1222992762120949760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Among Mr Trump’s retweets was a thread by Rita Katz, director of the Site Intelligence Group which tracks messaging by militant groups.</p>
<p>Ms Katz tweeted on Thursday:<em> “If true, and it seems to be, the death of al-Rimi would mark a major blow to #AlQaeda on the whole. Al-Rimi was a candidate for succeeding AQ leader Zawahiri.”</em></p>
<p>AQAP has long been considered the global network’s most dangerous branch and has attempted to carry out attacks on the US mainland.</p>
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