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Then on Nov. 3 in a remote area of Yemen, a CIA Predator loosed a Hellfire missile that vaporized a car in which a top al- Qaeda leader, Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, was thought to be riding along with five other people, including an American citizen. The American, believed to be Kamal Derwish, was later described by Administration officials as the leader of an alleged al- Qaeda sleeper cell in New York State. The officials said he persuaded young men from Lackawanna, N.Y., a Buffalo suburb, to travel to Afghanistan for religious studies at locations that turned...
...Director Robert Mueller was being shown his picture along with those of other 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
...Director Robert Mueller was being shown his picture, along with those of other suspects in the 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...
...main prey was a man called Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi. Known as Abu Ali, he was, according to Yemeni officials, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden's and the local mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor in October 2000. When an American Predator drone fired its Hellfire missile into al-Harethi's car as it moved along a remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen...
...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 of the government, who called it a violation of sovereignty. There may be more to come. U.S. counterterror operatives in Yemen are already hunting their next target: Muhammad al-Hamati, a bakery owner...
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