Tariq al Dahab, Yemen Al Qaeda Leader, Dead, Says Terrorist Group

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen's branch of al-Qaida has confirmed the death of a senior leader, who officials say died in a bloody family feud.

A statement posted on a militant website by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula on Monday said that government agents "motivated by the hireling regime in Sanaa" were responsible for the death of its "emir", Tariq al-Dahab.

It did not comment beyond that on claims by officials and tribal leaders that al-Dahab had been slain Thursday at his home in southern Yemen by his half brother Hizam. Hizam and 15 others were then reported to have been killed by Dahab's followers.

The clashes came days before Feb. 21 elections to approve a new leader to replace President Ali Abdullah Saleh. A year-long uprising has sought to push Saleh from power.

Comments

[kilakhan]

07:32 AM on 04/03/2012

Brother Tariq was probably withholding Hizam's share of the booty they collect from their sponsors...all said and done..one less .......... we gotta worry about!!!

[pistol13]

11:27 AM on 02/22/2012

Too bad the brother was killed. We coud award him a medal.

[carbar4647]

04:19 PM on 02/21/2012

Please post the address so I can send a thank you note.

[Ed Baker]

03:26 PM on 02/21/2012

Awww that's too bad, now we won't get to kill him.

[sonny parker]

02:36 PM on 02/21/2012

Send more short range weapons.....

[bbrnsbll]

02:35 PM on 02/21/2012

He did right. Rabid dogs need to be put down.

[sonny parker]

02:33 PM on 02/21/2012

Oops there goes another one...kerplop...

[SmallChange]

04:59 PM on 02/21/2012

Cause we have high hopes, we have high hopes
We have high apple pie, in the sky hopes ......

[bbrnsbll]

02:29 PM on 02/21/2012

Line up a few more al-Qaida in his sights.

[Anne Mccormick]

02:02 PM on 02/21/2012

at total of 17 of them gone for good. anyone here upset about that?

[0u8one2]

01:40 PM on 02/21/2012

you can not trust anyone these days.

[DevonTexas]

01:39 PM on 02/21/2012

oh good. one less to worry about.

[jongrif851]

01:30 PM on 02/21/2012

OH BOO-HOO , say it isn't so -- will they be having a nationally televised funeral like Whitney's and lower the US flag like Gov. Christie (erroneously) did for Whitney ???

[wlcd]

12:29 PM on 02/21/2012

Seems like Al Qaeda has been learning from the Sopranos-Will Al Qaeda blame Western values corrupting them?

[barrashee]

12:23 PM on 02/21/2012

This is the way to handle most of the Middle East problems. You don't have to put a lid on a bucket of crabs, as one crawls out another pulls it back in. These people are so full of hatred and vengence they can be left to destroy themselves. Our being there merely makes us a target and does nothing to raise their own standards. Let those who want to improve themselves come to the West, and if they dare return and effect change from within. We can't impose it, we can't raise anyone above the level they wish for themselves.

[Cassandra Velasco]

12:10 PM on 02/21/2012

"My half brother and I are enemies but our father's third wife's cousin hates us both, so therefore we are friends until one of us kills him." That is your Arab logic in a nutshell.

[argentino]

02:02 PM on 02/21/2012

Hola Cassandra - no, I wasn't talking about you...

Fanned...

[Cassandra Velasco]

04:37 PM on 02/21/2012

Sonrisas