Saturday, January 2, 2010

Debka Reports Gladdening Update - US drones wipe out top al Qaeda leaders in Yemen

Large part of al Qaeda leadership in Yemen and Somalia wiped out last week.

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6432

DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report that the air strike in eastern Yemen Thursday, Dec. 24, which left more than 30 dead, was in fact a US drone attack which wiped out a large part of al Qaeda's leadership in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Among them were two high-ranking Yemeni al Qaeda operatives Saud al Qahtani, Mohammed Amir, al Qaeda's commander in Saudi Arabia, Saad Shahani, and Anwar al Awkali, the American imam who preached to US. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who murdered 13 US military personnel at Ford Hood, Texas last month.

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