Yemeni Official: U.S. Drone Strike Kills 2 al-Qaeda Operatives

[tekisui]

Source: Washington Post

SANAA, Yemen — Two al-Qaeda operatives were killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike in the remote, mountainous Yemeni governorate of Shabwa early Thursday, according to a Yemeni security official.

The information about the strike came from Col. Hamid Saleh, security director of the Mayfaa district in the Shabwa governorate. He said the men were killed when a missile struck their car.

A Yemeni government spokesman, while not confirming that the missile was fired by a U.S. drone, identified the dead men as brothers Musaed Mubarak Aldaghery and Abdullah Mubarak Aldaghery.

The two men were active in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, officials said. Even before the killing this week of Osama bin Laden, American government officials had warned that the al-Qaeda branch in Yemen had emerged as a more active and dangerous foe than the core group of al-Qaeda led by its central command in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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[tekisui]

1. Over the last 18 months, the American military has used fighter aircraft and cruise missles

in Yemeni strikes. (from article)

[HereSince1628]

2. We won't risk troops when ID is pointless

run of the mill terrorist deaths are not worth confirming

or so it seems,

[The Northerner]

3. So, will the drones will go anywhere regardless of territory?