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American Said Died in Yemen Strike 2 hours, 13 minutes ago By AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press Writer SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - An American was believed to be among the six militants killed in a CIA (news - web sites) missile strike this weekend, a security source said Thursday. The six men, including Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, al-Qaida's top man in Yemen, were killed Sunday when a Hellfire missile fired from a pilotless CIA spy plane destroyed the car they were riding in. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the other five were known by their aliases — Saleh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration renewed its opposition Tuesday to Israel's assassination of terror suspects, even after a U.S. missile killed a top al-Qaida operative and five other people in his car in Yemen. Sunday's strike in Yemen was the first such overt attack outside Afghanistan and could signal a new U.S. strategy against anti-Western terrorists. Israel, which pioneered targeting militants for assassination, sometimes also killing and injuring civilians in the attacks, has been admonished publicly and regularly by the State Department for the tactics. On Tuesday, while declining to discuss the U.S. operation in Yemen, spokesman Richard Boucher...

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's president urged al-Qaida members Tuesday to ``repent'' and renounce violence following the weekend attack in which a U.S. Hellfire missile fired from a CIA plane killed the terrorist movement's top operative in the country. ``We call on everyone from among our countrymen who have been entangled in membership of the al-Qaida organization to repent ... and renounce all means of violence,'' President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a statement read by a Cabinet minister on national television. Saleh said that those who ``return to the path of righteousness'' would be allowed to ``return to society...