Updated: US disputes UN report on capture of Al-Qaeda’s top man in Yemen
The report said Khalid Batarfi was handed over to Saudi authorities, yet a US officials says he's still at large.
While a recent United Nations report claimed the head of al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, Khalid Batarfi, was captured in the country’s eastern Mahra governorate in October, a newly released video depicting Batarfi contradicts this account.
The operation was reported to have taken place in the town of al-Ghayda and led to the death of the local franchise’s second-in-command, Saad Atef al-Awlaqi.
