. >> reporter: sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi was of four members who launched al-qaeda in yemen in 2007. years later it merged with saudi arabia branch to become al-qaeda in arab yanukovich penally or aqup with sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi cause leader and a man tried to blowup a plane flying to michigan with plastic explosives in his underwear and they said they trained him and they added sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi to the most wanted list in 2010 describing him as especially detonated global terrorist who is aqap leader responsible for targets and recruiting new members and allocating new attacks and under sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi leadership aqap carried out attacks on security forces including this in a military force in a province in 2013. [bomb sounds] the group also claimed responsibility for the attack this year on charlie hebdo magazine in paris and killed 11 people and as sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi did not join islamic state in iraq and levante he spent years with bin laden and loyal to al-qaeda until the end, carolyn malone with al jazeera. >>> u.n. children organization calling for

al-qaeda in yemen has confirmed that the leader sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi has been killed in bombing named the former chief rami as the new leader and u.s. is believed to launch 100 strikes in yemen since 2002 and here is al jazeera carolyn malone. >> reporter: sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi was four al-qaeda members who launched al-qaeda in yemen in 2007 and two years later it merged with saudi arabia to be al-qaeda in the saudi arabia with sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi as the leader and tried to blowup a plane going to michigan with plastic explosives in underwear and said they trained and funded him. the u.s. state department added sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi to the most wanted list in 2010 as a global terrorist who was responsible for approving targets, recruiting new members and allocating resources to carry out attacks. under sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi's leadership they carried out a number of attacks on yemen security forces including this on a military post on a province in 2013. the group also claimed responsibility for the attack this year on charlie hebdo magazine that killed 11 peopl

and sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi was in charge of al-qaeda in the arab peninsula and u.s.ded him as one of the most dangerous people in the world and we have the story. >> reporter: the meeting of al-qaeda in the arab peninsula was held last year in the open and during daylight hours and despite the drone attack the leader seemed to be saying we are not afraid. clearly mocking the u.s. and yemen governments who for years have vowed to get rid of aqap and a target for well over a decade has been eliminated but is the threat still alive? >> al-qaeda, the original al-qaeda has by and large been neutral iezed in the last several years and al-qaeda and arab peninsula has not and is probably the most significant to the west in terms of both capability and intent to conduct terrorist attacks. >> reporter: [bomb sounds] aqap under the stewardship has been considered the active and dangerous wing of the al-qaeda network, formed in 2009 after the merger of the saudi and yemen branches of al-qaeda carried out their first cross border attack in august of that year when a su side bombe

al jazeera, i'm david foster and also coming up in the next 30 minutes al-qaeda in yemen says sheikh nasserishi has been killed in a u.s. drone strike and i.s.i.l. suffers setback in two years as kurdish forces take control of a town and t

nasser did not want the un forces to be moved from sharm el-sheikh because he knew that once they wereoved from sharm el-sheikh he, as an egyptian, would not be able to sit there and watch israeli boats pass by. he would have to blockade those straits again and that could cause a war. so he sent instructions to his officers, who were to meet with the heads of unef, telling them we want you to move back from the border but we want you to stay in sharm el-sheikh. we also want you to stay in gaza. amir changed the orders. he changed the orders for personal reasons. he actually was interested in precipitating a war with israel so he could regain some glory that he had lost in the '56 war he changed the orders and we know this for a fact now. we actually have the protocol of the meeting that the egyptians who came to the un, the un forces in sinai said, "we need you to pull out entirely from sharm el-sheikh, from gaza." at the same time, amir sent egyptian paratroopers to occupy sharm el-sheikh. once he did that... c-span: where did you find this information? >> guest: we found this informa