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Your article "They Didn't Know What Hit Them" [WORLD, Nov. 18] described how in Yemen an American Predator drone fired a missile by remote control into a car carrying suspected terrorists and killed them. You said, "U.S. officials think" that one of the six killed was Kamal Derwish, "a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell" in the U.S. Another victim, "according to Yemeni officials," was a former bodyguard of bin Laden's. Apparently, the U.S. now kills without judicial trials and without questions. Are we nothing more than technically...
...suspects in theCole bombing when word of the World Trade Center disaster arrived. Al-Nashiri's capture follows another success in Yemen earlier this month when senior al-Qaeda leader Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi and five others were incinerated by a missile fired by a CIA-operated Predator drone. U.S. officials hope al-Nashiri will lead them to others involved in the Cole and embassy bombings. --By Johanna McGeary. Reported by Elaine Shannon/Washington
...Spot him with a Predator drone and drop a precision-guided weapon on him. Fast, cheap, simple. It worked in Yemen on Nov. 3, when a drone's missile obliterated a car carrying a former bin Laden bodyguard and five other al-Qaeda operatives. But an air strike inside Pakistan would require more cooperation from President Pervez Musharraf than the U.S. has. Pakistan only reluctantly agreed to allow the U.S. to use its airspace and bases to stage the Afghan invasion; it would balk at Predator drones flying all over the country...
...Cole bombing, when word of the World Trade Center attack arrived. Al-Nashiri's capture follows another success in Yemen earlier this month, when senior al-Qaeda leader Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi and five others were incinerated by a missile fired by a CIA-operated Predator drone. American officials hope al-Nashiri will lead them to others involved in the Cole and embassy bombings. Says one: "Clearly this is an opportunity to fill in some of the blanks." - By Johanna McGeary. Reported by Elaine Shannon/ Washington NIGERIA beauty and the beasts Riots and killings spread across northern Nigeria last...
...home of the U.S. military command--Joint Task Force Horn of Africa--charged with hunting terrorists in the region. The armed version of the Predator had proved itself in the war in Afghanistan last year, but the attack in Yemen marked the first known use of the drone to kill a terrorist leader outside an acknowledged field of combat--a tactic human-rights advocates liken to assassination. The strike owed its success to a tip from Yemeni authorities on the whereabouts of al-Harethi, and U.S. officials say Yemen gave its permission for the strike. But the action infuriated opponents...