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Monday, November 4, 2002 Posted: 11:30 PM EST (0430 GMT)
SANAA, Yemen (CNN) -- The United
States killed six suspected al
Qaeda members in Yemen Monday
morning, including the man wanted
in the bombing of the USS Cole,
with a Hellfire missile fired from an
unmanned CIA drone at the car in
which they were traveling, sources
told CNN.
It was the first direct U.S. strike against Osama
bin Laden's al Qaeda network outside
Afghanistan since the U.S.-led war on
terrorism began after the September 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks.
Officials with the Central Intelligence Agency
and Pentagon refused to discuss the report.
The sources who spoke to CNN said the
Hellfire missile was launched from an
unmanned Predator aerial vehicle. All six
people in the car died, they said. (More on
Predator)
Video from the scene in Yemen's oil rich Marib
province showed the car blown apart, with
most of it reduced to black ash in the desert.
Sources identified one of the dead as Abu Ali,
also known as Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, a
former bin Laden security guard who was
believed to have played a major role in the
October 2000 attack on the destroyer Cole that
killed 17 sailors.
Walid Al-Saqqaf, managing editor of the Yemen
Times, told CNN that Ali was identified by a
mark on his leg, which was blown off in the
blast and found nearby.
He said Ali, who has been on the run and was
believed to be harbored by tribesmen, has
been the source of a massive hunt by security
forces in Yemen. An attempt to capture him
late last year failed. That botched attempt left
more than a dozen security forces dead.
About 50 U.S. Special Forces troops have
been in the country training Yemeni security
forces. There was no immediate indication they
took part in the strike.
During a campaign rally in Arkansas, President
Bush did not comment directly on the incident in
Yemen but said the United States is pursuing
"international killers.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/11/04/yemen.blast/index.html
SANAA, Yemen (CNN) -- The United
States killed six suspected al
Qaeda members in Yemen Monday
morning, including the man wanted
in the bombing of the USS Cole,
with a Hellfire missile fired from an
unmanned CIA drone at the car in
which they were traveling, sources
told CNN.
It was the first direct U.S. strike against Osama
bin Laden's al Qaeda network outside
Afghanistan since the U.S.-led war on
terrorism began after the September 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks.
Officials with the Central Intelligence Agency
and Pentagon refused to discuss the report.
The sources who spoke to CNN said the
Hellfire missile was launched from an
unmanned Predator aerial vehicle. All six
people in the car died, they said. (More on
Predator)
Video from the scene in Yemen's oil rich Marib
province showed the car blown apart, with
most of it reduced to black ash in the desert.
Sources identified one of the dead as Abu Ali,
also known as Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, a
former bin Laden security guard who was
believed to have played a major role in the
October 2000 attack on the destroyer Cole that
killed 17 sailors.
Walid Al-Saqqaf, managing editor of the Yemen
Times, told CNN that Ali was identified by a
mark on his leg, which was blown off in the
blast and found nearby.
He said Ali, who has been on the run and was
believed to be harbored by tribesmen, has
been the source of a massive hunt by security
forces in Yemen. An attempt to capture him
late last year failed. That botched attempt left
more than a dozen security forces dead.
About 50 U.S. Special Forces troops have
been in the country training Yemeni security
forces. There was no immediate indication they
took part in the strike.
During a campaign rally in Arkansas, President
Bush did not comment directly on the incident in
Yemen but said the United States is pursuing
"international killers.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/11/04/yemen.blast/index.html
Can't anybody do a proper, 'messy' death anymore?
