Thread by @Dr_E_Kendall

1/ Startling video just released by #AlQaeda #Yemen includes leader #Batarfi (supposedly captured in Oct) & looks genuinely new. Opens with dramatic footage of storming of US Congress on 6 Jan. Delights in US domestic strife. Hopes this heralds 🇺🇸 downfall
#TrumpImpeachment #AQAP

2/ In new #AQAP #Yemen video, #Batarfi mentions (at 7.55 minutes) that the USA has suffered over 400,000 deaths from #Covid19. This dates the recording to AFTER 15 January 2021 (so well after Batarfi's supposed capture in October 2020). True to form, he includes a long #poem...

3/ Wait! #Batarfi's spoken #Arabic differs slightly from the English subtitle. He says حال so could be 400,000 cases not "perished" as per transcript. This would date Batarfi's speech footage to April2020. That fits with our last *new* footage from him: his Ramadan lecture series

4/ So, what do other researchers who have watched it think? Is #Batarfi saying haal (cases) or haalik (deaths)? I can't quite catch it.
#AQAP #Yemen

5/ Mystery solved. The video dates from after 15 January 2021. That tiny purple dot on the sound file below is a "k" sound. So #Batarfi said "deaths" not "cases"

This implies that Batarfi is NOT captured (or, if he is, then he is on good terms with his jailers...)
#AQAP #Yemen