Word: yemen
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...Taliban prisoners he had been interrogating; uncharacteristically, the CIA confirmed that Spann was one of its own, a member of the SOG. Another peek into the shadows came last November when it was revealed that the explosion that had carbonized a carful of alleged al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen was caused by a Hellfire missile let loose by a CIA Predator drone...
...most publicity lately is the fleet of remote-controlled Predator drones, armed with 5-ft.-long Hellfire missiles, that the agency bought from the Air Force. In November 2001 the CIA deployed the drone to eliminate bin Laden's lieutenant, Mohammed Atef. Last November's Predator hit in Yemen killed an al-Qaeda commander and his entourage of five, though the strike was controversial: one of the dead men turned out to be a U.S. citizen...
After approving a covert operation, Bush leaves the details of when and how to Tenet and his senior aides. For example, Administration officials say Bush did not specifically order the Predator attack in Yemen. But after Sept. 11 he gave the CIA the green light to use lethal force against al-Qaeda...
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...
...list of terrorist leaders whom the agency is authorized to kill. It's a strategy that even Jeffrey Smith, the former general counsel of the CIA, has frowned upon. "This ought to be a last resort for the United States," he said after the Predator attack in Yemen. And, Smith noted, "sometimes you get the wrong man. It also seems to legitimize assassination...putting at risk our own leaders and to some extent our own citizens...