Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has risen to prominence over the past month after two US-backed airstrikes targeted training camps and a leadership meeting in Yemen. Just one day after the Christmas Eve strike that targeted Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s top leaders, a Nigerian attempted to blow up an airliner over Detroit. In Yemen, the bomber had received training, the explosive device, and the ideological justification to carry out the attack. The presentation above (click image or click here to view) lists 10 of the most wanted leaders and operatives in the terror group.

For more on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the terror group’s leaders, see:

• Radical US cleric survived airstrike in Yemen: family

• US launches cruise missile strikes against al Qaeda in Yemen

• Yemeni airstrike targets top al Qaeda leaders

• Former Guantanamo detainee now al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula’s Mufti

• Yemen permits wanted al Qaeda leaders to operate in the open

• Al Qaeda opens new training camp in Yemen

• Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge

• Return to Jihad

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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