merged with saudi arabia branch to become al-qaeda in arab yanukovich penally or aqup with sheikh nasser al-wuhaishise 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 an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in yemen and 279 children have been killed by the saudi-led bombing campaign began nearly three months

launch 100 strikes in yemen since 2002 and here is al jazeera carolyn malone. >> reporter: sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi 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 people and as sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi rejected calls to join islamic state of iraq and levante he spent many years with bin laden and loyal to al-qaeda to the end, carolyn malone, al jazeera. >>

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

jazeera, i'm david foster and also coming up in the next 30 minutes al-qaeda in yemen says sheikh nasser al-wuhaishin 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