Combine comedy and horror, and you get Carl Rimi. The standup comic pulls double duty as star and co-director of the new hair-raising film “iPossessed.” ...

Al-Rimi took over AQAP in 2015 after its former leader, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2015. Al Qaeda at that time named al-Rimi as his successor.

Rimi, a Yemeni national, reportedly served as a top lieutenant in Afghanistan to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in 2011.