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WASHINGTON: The United States has netted another al-Qaeda No.3, the sixth No.3 to be downed dead or alive in its war on terrorism. The latest "senior" al-Qaeda operative to fall in the U S cross hairs is Haitham al-Yemeni, who was killed by a CIA Predator plane on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border last week, according to American TV networks, quoting unnamed US officials. The officials said Al-Yemeni has been tracked for some time in the hope that he would lead them to Osama bin Laden but the drone took him out amid doubts that he may go disappear after the capture...

Bomb-maker killed as US exploits ethnic rifts in al-Qa'eda By Massoud Ansari in Karachi and Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 15/05/2005) A leading al-Qa'eda bomb-maker has been killed in a US missile strike as America and Pakistan exploit worsening ethnic rifts within the terror network. The death of Haitham al-Yemeni comes shortly after Pakistan captured Osama bin Laden's suspected third-in-command using intelligence from disaffected militants. Abu Faraj al-Libbi was traced after exiled Uzbek fighters on the Pakistan-Afghan border who had fallen out with al-Qa'eda's Arab-dominated leadership gave Pakistani intelligence officials his mobile phone number.The capture of al-Libbi and death of...

A senior al Qaeda operative was killed by a missile fired from a CIA Predator aircraft on the Pakistani side of the remote area near the Afghan border earlier this week, U.S. intelligence officials told ABC News. The CIA refused to confirm or deny any operational matter. Haitham al-Yemeni, a native of Yemen known for his bomb-making skills, had been tracked for some time in the hope that he would help lead the United States to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, intelligence officials said. But with the recent capture in northwest Pakistan of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, thought to be...

Media reports in this country say U.S. intelligence has carried out a raid that killed a senior al-Qaida operative in Pakistan, but authorities in Islamabad are denying that any such incident occurred in Pakistani territory. Two American television networks, ABC and NBC, say an unmanned Predator aircraft operated by the Central Intelligence Agency launched an attack that killed Haitham al-Yemeni, a Yemeni activist who held a senior position in Osama bin Laden's terror network. The deadly raid is said to have taken place earlier this week in a remote part of northwestern Pakistan. However, the information minister in Islamabad, Sheikh...

WASHINGTON - A senior al-Qaida operative was killed by a missile fired from an unmanned CIA Predator aircraft near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border earlier this week, ABC News reported Friday. ADVERTISEMENT Intelligence officials, who were not identified in the report, said al-Qaida operative Haitham al-Yemeni had been tracked for some time with the hope that he would lead them to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, ABC reported. With the capture of the No. 3 leader of al-Qaida, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, in northwest Pakistan earlier this month, officials decided to strike at al-Yemeni rather than risk that he would go into hiding,...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - An al-Qaeda leader from Yemen was reportedly killed this week by a missile fired by an unmanned CIA Predator plane in a mountain region of Pakistan close to the border with Afghanistan. Haitham al-Yemeni had been under surveillance for by the US Central Intelligence Agency as it sought information in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. After the recent capture of bu Faraj al-Libbi in Pakistan, al-Yemeni was considered Al-Qaeda's number three leader, the ABC television report said. According to ABC, US authorities acted because they...

Senior Al Qaeda Operative Struck by Predator Missile May 13, 2005 — A senior al Qaeda operative was killed by a missile fired from a CIA Predator aircraft on the Pakistani side of the remote area near the Afghan border earlier this week, U.S. intelligence officials told ABC News. Haitham al-Yemeni, a native of Yemen known for his bomb-making skills, had been tracked for some time in the hope that he would help lead the United States to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, intelligence officials said. But with the recent capture in northwest Pakistan of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, thought...