Al-Thawra Net
Yemen’s Ministry of the Interior will broadcast a recorded voice message and photograph of Abu Abdullah al-Masri, the self-declared “Emir of al-Qaeda in Taiz”, after he was arrested by Yemeni forces days ago.
“The Emir of al-Qaeda in Taiz has made serious confessions about the organisation’s relationship with the Saudi-led coalition and the armed militias in the city of Taiz,” the Interior Ministry’s Security Information Center said.
Security services in Taiz province arrested the so-called Emir together with one of the leaders of the invading coalition’s armed militias days ago in a qualitative security operation in the north-west of Taiz province.
Abu Abdullah al-Masri is known for his leadership in the city of Taiz since the beginning of the aggression, and is in direct coordination with the Saudi-UAE coalition leaders
. He oversaw several al-Qaeda terrorist operations, including executions, floggings, assassinations and armed robberies against banks and shops.
On Friday, the Yemeni Security Media Center broadcasted a video confession of four al-Qaeda members arrested by security services in Al-Bayda province on March 13.
The arrest of such an important leader is sure to be a major blow to Al-Qaeda in Yemen, as well as to the Saudi-led invaders. The city of Taiz itself is still under Saudi military occupation but is getting increasingly surrounded as Yemeni forces liberate more and more of the surrounding province.
