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Police operations in Yemen recently resulted in the death of two high-profile jihadists by authorities — a move that says more about the interests of the country’s power structure than it does about an overall move to crack down on the growing jihadist threat.
Hamza al-Quaiti, a suspected bomb maker for al Qaeda’s Yemeni franchise, was killed in Tarim on Aug. 11. He was believed to have been responsible for the vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) attack against a police station in Hadramout province July 25. Additionally, intelligence gathered from the Aug. 11 raid led to the breaking up of a terrorist cell on Aug. 24. Days later, on Aug. 30, Khaled Abdul Nabi, the leader of a jihadist group in the south of Yemen, was killed in Jaar after being chased down in a gunfight. Nabi had evaded police for five years.
While Yemeni authorities regularly announce arrests of suspected al Qaeda members or jihadist sympathizers, pursuing such key figures indicates that these particular militants may have overstepped their boundaries and therefore prompted the country’s power structure into approving their pursuit by the government.
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