NEFA Foundation: Al-Qaida in Yemen Mourns Fallen Martyrs, Including Iraq Veterans & Saudi Terror Suspects

By Evan Kohlmann

The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated additional selected articles from the official magazine of Al-Qaida’s network in Yemen, “Sada al-Malahim.” The articles include two reports from an ongoing series titled “Men on the Road” profiling notable Al-Qaida figures from Yemen and Saudi Arabia who have been recently “martyred” in clashes with “apostate” security forces. The two men are Yemeni national Yasser Nasser al-Hamiqani and ‘Abu Dawud al-Najdi’ (a.k.a. Saudi national Mohammed Rashid al-Julaidan). Hamiqani, released from a Yemeni prison after a failed bid to join the jihad in Iraq, was allegedly killed at a security checkpoint while in the midst of preparing a terrorist attack targeting Ethiopian interests in the al-Bayda province of Yemen. Al-Julaidan, shot down in a clash with Saudi security forces in the “Palms” neighborhood of Riyadh, was a veteran of both Syrian and Saudi prisons—imprisoned for traveling back-and-forth between Iraq and Syria in the service of “his mujahideen brothers in Iraq.”

The two newly-translated articles are available on the NEFA Foundation website.

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