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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Mon May 20, 2013, 08:24 AM May 2013

Two suspected militants killed in Yemen drone strike

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/05/20/uk-yemen-drone-qaeda-idUKBRE94J09920130520

(Reuters) - Two suspected al Qaeda militants were killed on Monday in a drone strike on their vehicle south of the capital Sanaa, tribal and government sources said.

The strike follows another on Saturday in which at least four militants were killed in Abyan governorate, in southern Yemen. A Yemeni official did not say who was behind the attack, but previous strikes have been carried out by the United States.

Monday's strike occurred at dawn in the Radda area in al-Bayda province, but the sources gave no further details and Washington does not usually comment on drone strikes.

The United States has stepped up attacks on Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), once described by a senior U.S. official as the group's most dangerous branch after a plot by it to attack international airliners was foiled.
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Two suspected militants killed in Yemen drone strike (Original Post) xchrom May 2013 OP
'suspected' militants killed bowens43 May 2013 #1
Not really malaise May 2013 #2
The American Way. GeorgeGist May 2013 #3
 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
1. 'suspected' militants killed
Mon May 20, 2013, 08:49 AM
May 2013

so suspicion is enough to justify the death penalty these days.......

unfucking believable.

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