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Khaled Batarfi

Khalid Saeed Batarfi, also known as Abū al-Miqdād al-Kindī, was a Saudi militant and the emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He oversaw the Yemen-based group's media network and led jihadist fighters in their takeover of Yemen's Abyan Governorate in 2011, where he was accorded the position of emir. He also reputedly carried out terrorist attacks in the Abyan and Hadhramaut governorates.