Also from the article:
The Yemen branch was responsible for sending a 23-year old Nigerian...to try and blow up a US airline flying from Amsterdam to Detroit.
An American cleric associated with the group became the first U.S. citizen to be killed in a drone strike overseas on the order of President Obama...
Awkaki had communicated with the Ft Hood shooter, Maj Nidal Hasan, before Hasan carried out the rampage on the US Army base killing 13 and wounding dozens more...
Sad. If it wasn’t to rescue a hostage, it should have been 2 or 3 giant JDAMs. We need to use firepower instead of wasting lives and money.