Talk:Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

References for people
I'm gradually inserting references (of one quality or another) for each of these names. Give me a few days. Lots of other AQ guys need attention too :) LDH 00:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. LDH 05:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Husayn bin Mahmoud
The battle at ar-Raas is the subject of a fairly long article by the senior al-Qaida writer and Islam expert who goes by "Husayn bin Mahmoud" or "Husayn ibn Mahmoud". It would be nice to identify that writer. 209.121.88.198 (talk) 10:37, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

date of foundation?
All news sources (ex. ) I have seen indicate that AQAP was formed, at least in name, in January 2009, when the Saudi and Yemeni branches of al-Qaeda merged. The chronology of this article does not seem to make that distinction.--RDavi404 (talk) 14:30, 30 December 2009 (UTC)


 * This is weird but the BBC profile adopts the same strategy, so...Prezbo (talk) 22:43, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Basically there were/ are two groups. The first was responsible for the campaign in Saudi Arabia between 2003 and 2006 but was depleted by Saudi security forces. The current AQAP is actually AQ in Yemen that claims to have merged with the Saudi organization but it is quite unclear in how far this is propaganda or actually true. AQAP is dominated by Yemenis at the moment (informations on this can be found in the special Yemen issue of CTC Sentinel: http://www.ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/ ) --Schlüssel und Rose (talk) 16:26, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

RE: 2005 list of KSA's 36 most wanted
This section should be removed for two reasons: (1) it is not relevant to the scope of this article and (2) it is a dated list that has since been updated on the relevant page.--RDavi404 (talk) 14:49, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Wikilinking names
I think all these individual's names should be wikilinked. With the multiple transliteration problem with Arabic names not wikilinking makes it more difficult to locate when there are multiple articles about the same individual. Consider Abu Hureira Qasm al-Rimi and Qasim al-Raymi two parallel articles that existed for more than a year, that are almost certainly about the same individual. Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 04:29, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * They are the same individual. Sole Soul (talk) 14:57, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Khobar Tower attacks
Lawrence Wright (Looming Tower: p. 271) Fawaz A Gerges (The Far Enemy: p.55) and a couple of articles I read dispute the current version in this article and assign the attack to the Saudi (!) Hizb'allah. Gerges also claims that the 9/11 commission did only assume relations between the attack and AQ but could provide no evidence (I have not checked that myself). However it is true that AQ did endorse the attack. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Schlüssel und Rose (talk • contribs) 16:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Arabic language content
Why does the table of members have a whole column in Arabic in the English WP? Let's remove it. Nurg (talk) 05:45, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I haven't checked the guidelines, but I think that in bios -- for example -- it is common and accepted to reflect the native non-English names of people.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:32, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * That is true but this is not a bio, so it does not apply. Nurg (talk) 06:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Without checking the guidelines, I'm not sure. For example, our BLP policy applies to living people -- if they are mentioned in an article, even if it is not a bio.  Also, our MOS on bios says, at the beginning, "This page sets out guidelines for achieving visual and textual consistency in biographical articles and in biographical information in other articles." (emphasis added).  It may be the same here.  I imagine one benefit is that the Arabic name allows readers to search more easily on google and the like -- Arabic names often have multiple renditions in English.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:53, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the replies. That is very true of BLP, but BLP is not a style matter – it is about avoiding slander and other mischief about living people. It would not be enough to keep bios free of slander but to have it in other articles. The principle does not carry over to matters of style necessarily. In any case, nothing at Manual of Style/Biographies approves or forbids the inclusion of native non-English names, so it is irrelevant whether such a guideline would apply to non-bio articles as well. Your Google suggestion is nicely creative but that could (in principle) be added to the the things that Wikipedia is not. Anyway the Arabic form may be found on the bio pages, where they exist (and I know many don't, partly because of non-notability). If the Google argument was valid, we could make all articles about Arabic topics bilingual, but the | العربية Wikipedia is the place for Arabic language content. The Arabic Wikipedia may be lacking in info about these people, but if so, that is a deficiency that should be rectified there, rather than by including Arabic language translations everywhere in the English Wikipedia. The bio articles is the one place where the Arabic form is appropriate, just as the Arabic name for Egypt is included at the Egypt article, but not in other articles that mention Egypt. Nurg (talk) 08:56, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Flag
Looking at news reports and video releases from AQAP, they seem to be using the same flag (black with a white circle) as the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Shabaab, rather than the white text on black background the page uses at the moment. Pmolloy291 (talk) 11:28, 11 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pmolloy291 (talk • contribs)
 * If you look at various media pictures of AQAP held areas in yemen the flag is clearly identical to that of Al-Shabab, it should be changed to that flag as the current one depicted is not apparently used by AQAP.XavierGreen (talk) 05:18, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Al Qaeda or Al Qaida usually encyclopedias are consistant
I have no idea which is preferred or why but it is rare to have two transliterations in the same article. 121.99.163.55 (talk) 02:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Abu Abdurrahman - al Faranghi
Is this (Abu Abdurrahman - al Faranghi) the same as Egyptian-born Canadian citizen, Ahmad Sa'id al-Kadr, Abu Abdurrahman, or Ahmed Khadr? The spelling of names are often jumbled. Twillisjr (talk) 17:05, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Merged info from Ansar al-Sharia
Same organisation with different names, as per "the Ansar al-Sharia group in Yemen (ASY) is part of a rebranding effort by AQAP. Shaykh Abu Zubayr Adil bin Abdullah al-Abab, AQAP's chief religious figure, in April 2011 first voiced this change by explaining that "the name Ansar al-Sharia is what we use to introduce ourselves in areas where we work to tell people about our work and goals." Know Your Ansar Al Sharia and "The Department of State amended the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and E.O. 13224 designations of al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula to include the new alias, Ansar al-Shari’a (AAS)... AAS – which is based in Yemen and is a separate entity from Ansar al-Shari’a in Libya – was established to attract potential followers to shari’a rule in areas under the control of AQAP. However, AAS is simply AQAP’s effort to rebrand itself, with the aim of manipulating people to join AQAP’s terrorist cause. - Terrorist Designations of Ansar al-Sharia as an Alias for Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gazkthul (talk • contribs) 05:02, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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Capitalization of Al-Qaeda in name
I started a discussion on how to format names with al-Qaeda in the title at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Terrorism.~Technophant (talk) 17:42, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Members table
What is the opinion on the table containing every documented member of the group? Is it really necessary? It's really just an eyesore. I could understand a list of high ranking members but not one on every single one who has been documented. StanMan87 (talk) 03:15, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree StanMan87, it is an eyesore. We could either delete those in the list who are not notable or we could split it off into another article. What would you suggest? Mbcap (talk) 06:36, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * My preference of the two would be the former. StanMan87 (talk) 06:19, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeh, the former is best because looking at the list, some of them are not sourced while other are given too much weight, like the 12 saudis which is taken from this source . I could understand if the leader of the group was mentioned but the other 11 seem uneccessary. A particular humerous addition in the table is the last saudi, Abdullah Hassan Al Aseery who according to the table died twice; once in 2003 then again in 2009. He is the 13th on the list so not part of the 12 the table heading alludes to. I will try to clean and prune the list when I get some time, provided you are in agreement. Mbcap (talk) 09:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * If it was up to me, I'd just remove the entire list, but I have tried this and it just keeps getting reverted back due to vandalism. But we are in an agreement. StanMan87 (talk) 13:06, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I think in the interest of due weight the current table of members may warrant a place on the page provided they are given weight in reliable sources and notable. Notable and widely reported on member of AQP, I doubt consist of the number of names that are currently on the table. I simply think it is too many. If it does transpire that only 2,3 or 4 members are notable and given weight in sources, then yes I would agree with you that the table should be deleted, and instead just have subsections detailing their individual activities. But I cannot make that judgement call due to my inexperience. Maybe in that regard you can help? Mbcap (talk) 13:59, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 May 2015
According to the CNN source on Nasser Ansi, he died in April, not May 2015. Here's a direct quote and the link to the quote.

"Al-Ansi was killed last month in a drone strike in the Yemeni city of al-Mukalla, the SITE Intelligence group said, citing media reports."

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/07/middleeast/aqap-commander-killed/

Can someone please fix Ansi's month of death date? Thanks in advance. --103.249.84.167 21:58, 26 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes check.svg Done Stickee (talk) 01:37, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Temporary alliances and secret deals with Saudi government?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/06/us-now-allied-al-qaeda-yemen-ap-reveals-american-backed-saudi-coalition-forged-deals

https://www.wsj.com/articles/al-qaeda-fights-on-same-side-as-saudi-backed-militias-in-yemen-1437087067

https://apnews.com/f38788a561d74ca78c77cb43612d50da/Yemen:-US-allies-don't-defeat-al-Qaida-but-pay-it-to-go-away

Meneth (talk) 12:05, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 16 September 2020

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 00:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula → Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – This was moved without discussion and in contradiction of WP:COMMONNAME. Charles Essie (talk) 20:43, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Support, maybe even something for WP:RM/TR. Revert a misguided "fixing" of name against the sources (see: https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/al-qaeda-in-the-arabian-peninsula ).  SnowFire (talk) 15:03, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


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That flag looks wrong
That flag looks very isis, and those two hate each other. They schismed so it's not implausible, but seems weird. Irtapil (talk) 15:28, 15 January 2024 (UTC)