There is no evidence that AQAP or any of its supporters was involved in the Boston attack.
On August 28, 2009, the Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Nayef survived a bombing attack launched by AQAP.
Yemeni air forces attacked killed five people Friday in attacks on AQAP positions in Abyan province, security officials said.
"We had strategic intelligence that AQAP had the intention of taking action against the United States, " Blair said in the letter.
Saudi officials have described AQAP as the kingdom's most serious security threat and have worked closely with Sanaa against the group.
McLaughlin said AQAP now controls, or exercises influence in, about half of Yemen and the group continues to have several worrisome characteristics.
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The US has labelled AQAP the most dangerous branch of al-Qaeda.
You have, as you mentioned, at other times -- Times Square or the AQAP plot involving cargo planes, which is not -- as you mentioned, not affixed necessarily to a holiday.
This contributed to the larger failure to connect the fragments of intelligence that could have revealed the plot, Abdulmutallab's extremist views, AQAP's involvement with a Nigerian, its desire to strike the U.S. homeland.
We know specifically that AQAP was targeting in Mr. Abdulmutallab somebody that did not have the characteristics that those previously that had attempted to do us harm through an airliner -- that they shared.
In July 2011, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the United States was "within reach of strategically defeating al Qaeda, " and that he believed of all al Qaeda affiliates, AQAP posed the greatest threat to the U.S. homeland.
It was AQAP that tried to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 using a Nigerian recruit who had secreted a hard-to-detect bomb in his underwear, and it was AQAP that smuggled bombs in printer cartridges onto cargo planes bound for the U.S. in October 2010.
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