In the wake of last week’s brazen meeting of top Al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen, American forces acting together with Yemeni commandos raided a suspected Al-Qaeda hideout Sunday night.
Yemeni commandos engaged suspected members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the U.S. official said, who added that no Americans took part in actual combat on the ground. This same official identified the American personnel involved as special operations members, who are among the most elite and clandestine in the U.S. military. …
CIA drones are suspected to have targeted Al-Qaeda fighters, weapons locations and a training camp. The latter is near where about 100 suspected members of the terrorist group met recently, according to video that’s appeared on jihadist websites and produced worries that the group could be plotting new attacks.
According to the CNN report, Al-Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asiri was among the terrorists who were killed in the raid. Official confirmation of the dead terrorists will not be known for a few days as results of DNA tests are pending.
Al-Asiri, who is believed to have attacked the United States on at least three occasions, was previously thought killed in a predator strike in 2011. However he resurfaced some six months later.
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