SANA, Yemen — A senior member of Al Qaeda who had issued a statement saying the group had encouraged the terrorist attacks in Paris last month was killed in a drone strike on Saturday, the militant group said on Thursday.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said that the drone strike, on Jan. 31, destroyed a car in Shabwah Province, in southern Yemen, killing four of its members who were inside. One of them, the statement said, was Harith al-Nadhari, an ideologue who had publicly praised the attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The group attributed the drone strike to the United States military.
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Shuaib Almosawa reported from Sana, and Rod Nordland from Amman, Jordan. Ben Hubbard contributed reporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Kareem Fahim from Baghdad.
