Isam al-Sufyani Almotamar.net - SANAA �The governor of Yemeni governorate of Marib Arif al-Zouka told almotamar.net that Yemeni anti-terror forces killed at the early hours of Wednesday four members of al Qaeda's Yemen wing in an air and land raid in the area of Al-Sahim situated between the district of Raghwan, Marib and the governorate of Al-Jawf.

Al-Zouka said the killed were members of the cell were behind attacking the Spanish tourists in Marib. They are Qassim al-Raimi, one of the escapees from the political security prison, Ali Bin Ali Douha, in addition to two persons that were not identified because of the damage inflicted on them in the raid. Nevertheless, a reliable source told almotamar.net that the third killed person is Naji Ali Jardan but almotamar.net could not get the name of the fourth killed person.
Almotamar.net has learned from the same source that Abdulaziz Jardan, one of the accused in killing director of criminal investigations of Marib Col. Ali Mahmoud Qasila, managed to escape and the anti-terror forces were still chasing him.

Yemeni forces have carried out the operation with parachute drop by a number of its forces with support by land troops after large information the Yemeni forces obtained about the whereabouts of the al-Qaeda militants.
Yemen's ministry of interior has earlier said investigations into the Marib terrorist attack that killed a number of Spanish tourists and two Yemenis revealed that the suicide bomber terrorist who carried out the operation was Abdeh Mohammed Saeed Ahmed Ruhaiqa from Makal village, Mizhir district of the governorate of Raima.
He was recruited by the terrorist Hamza Ali Saleh al-Dhayani who trained him on driving a taxi and took him after that to Wadi Abida area in Marib where the terrorist cell was present and that planned and prepared implementation of the operation. The cell is composed of terrorists Nasser Abdulkarim al-Wahishi, Qassim Yahya Mahdi al-Raimi, Ali Bin Ali Nasser Douha, Hamza Salem Omar bin Salem al-Qaeeti and Imad Abadeh Masoud al-Jabari al-Waeli who prepared and supervised directly the attack, in addition to a Saudi terrorist Naif Mohammed al-Qahtani. Terrorists Naji Ali Saleh Jardan and Ali bin Ali Nasser Douha from the governorate of Marib have provided shelter and protection for the cell members that implemented the operation and are at the same time the main accused persons of killing the director of criminal investigations in Marib.