Abdullah Mehdar

Who is Abdullah Mehdar?

Abdullah al-Mehdarhad was an al-Qaeda member who was the leader of an al-Qaeda cell in Yemen. On 13 January 2010 it was reported that he had been killed by Yemeni security forces. He had been fighting alongside Shia rebels in Saada before he was killed in a gunfight in the town of Sa'dah. The fighting was so heavy that it partly destroyed his home. A few days after his death, two Yemeni soldiers were killed in what was believed to have been a reprisal for Mehdar's death.