Official: CIA Killed Al Qaeda Suspects in Yemen

Reuters ^ | 11-4-02 | Anon

[Pharmboy]

Official: CIA Killed Al Qaeda Suspects in Yemen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A missile fired by an unmanned CIA (news - web sites) drone hit a car believed to be carrying suspected al Qaeda members in Yemen Sunday and killed several occupants, a U.S. official said Monday.

Mon Nov 4, 5:18 PM ET A Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is seen with a Hellfire-C laser guided missile under one wing in this file photo from a February 21, 2001 test flight at Nellis Airforce Base in Nevada. A missile fired by an unmanned CIA (news - web sites) drone hit a car believed to be carrying suspected al Qaeda members in Yemen November 4, 2002 and killed several occupants a U.S. official said November 5. Six alleged al Qaeda members were believed killed including a key suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole (news - web sites). While the CIA is known to operate armed Predator aircraft, it could not be confirmed if the Predator was used in this attack. (USAFMC/Reuters)

The official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters the American military was not involved in the attack, which reports from Sanaa said killed six alleged al Qaeda members, including a key suspect in a bombing attack on the U.S. warship Cole in Aden two years ago.

"As I understand it, it was an agency drone" that conducted the weekend strike, said the U.S. official, who did not provide any details.

The Defense Department and CIA refused to comment on the incident, but Yemen's news agency reported in Sanaa that a car explosion had killed six alleged members of al Qaeda. The radical Muslin group led by fugitive Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) is blamed by Washington for the devastating attacks on America in September of last year.

[Maynerd]

SWEET !

[NewYorker]

Great news - celebrated with the Prez at DancingBush.com.

[Grampa Dave]

Here is a link to an earlier thread on this good pre emptive good news or how to incinerate al Qaeda thugs with a single missile fired from an un manned Predator: (CIA kills al Senior Qaeda goat humping thug and 5 minor goat humping thugs)

[LaGrone]

Too much!! LOL

[r9etb]

Also, the remains of one those high powered world wide phones was found.

This scumbag probably got intercepted by NSA while making his final plans to attack another one of our ships.

LOL! By that I suspect you mean Iridium or Globalstar, both of which are being heavily subsidized (i.e., used) by DOD. Yes, they're encrypted. But you know that DOD has the keys.

[Radical Poet]

I just don't know about all these conspiracy theories! Now the poor CIA is being blamed for an unmanned drone missle attack.

For all we know, it was a simple case of 6 terrorists on their way to a camel convention, and someone OD'ed on viagra along the way!

...You've got to get those dosages printed in pictorials!

[b4its2late]

Just a black smudge in the desert

Excellent.

[rmvh]

Re your # 6...You think the CIA waited until JUST before an election to execut a terrorist? That would certainly be politicizing the war on terror, and it would be unfortunate.

Nice try poop. nti

[WilliamWallace1999]

That's the way uh-huh, uh-huh; I like it uh-huh, uh-huh!

[Grampa Dave]

You mean this photo where the guy is thinking "Jihad is really chit!"

[b4its2late]

You think the CIA waited until JUST before an election to execut a terrorist?

I think you just take a shot when you've got one, and this one happened to be a couple of days b4 an election........ timing is everything. Including being in the wrong place at the wrong time for those terrorist scumbags.....

[Grampa Dave]

Sssh! Don't tell the Islamofascists that we can track and target their Mercedes and Rolls with LoJack devices installed.

[r9etb]

I hope Bush wasn't playing with the timing on this. There's really no way for us to know whether this was politically timed or not, but I would tend to give Bush the benefit of the doubt.

The fact of the attack itself has been all over the news. The only mystery involved (and therefore the only reason for leaking) was who did it. AFP reports that the Yemeni gov't is claiming responsibility, whereas this unnamed source is giving credit to the CIA.

There have been many reports of a helicopter in the area, which seems to lend credence to AFP's version of the story.

Personally, I tend to think it was a joint operation -- the predator guided the helicopter to the site, and the helo made the kill. This avoids the diplomatic problems associated with a CIA hit in the ME.

This leak is convenient in that, even if it's not true in this case, Saddam and others know it's plausible based on our effective use of Predator-based missiles in Afghanistan.

[PoorMuttly]

Arrest the SNITCH.

[habs4ever]

Your point presumes that Bush could get the acquiescence of those dear departed killers to hop into the car so this theory could have some merit.Unless the WH is running ads on Al Jazera offering annuities to al Qada members to get themselves killed on behalf of the Republican "Take Back the Senate" campaign, I don't know how and why anyone would think of such an idea as you did.This isn't October Suprise Part Deux.

Oh, and Bush Isn't Clinton.

[Billthedrill]

It was your search criterion that was the problem - you didn't search for "goat humping thug." A natural mistake...

"Achmed, we must be very careful if we see any silly looking model airplanes following us."

Not to worry, Achmed. You won't be seeing them.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[LibWhacker]

Too bad it was so painless. Getting hit in the face with a Hellfire missile is probably the best way to go.

[GOPyouth]

Ain't technology cool?

Totally cool. It makes me laugh now that I look back at the press reporting that a car just "blew up", and nobody knew why. heh heh

[Grampa Dave]

Sssh, let the Islamofascists think that their messages are coded. That way they will continue babble on their Iridium and Global star phones. Besides knowing what they are saying, they mark the target area quite well.

Like GW informing the ChiCom leaders that their Loral target tech on their nuclear weapons on their ICBM's were now controlled by us. If one of those missiles were fired at us, Bejing would become the target before the missile cleared China.