Fingers crossed.
Via LWJ:
A senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader who trained at a camp in Afghanistan more than a decade ago was killed in a recent airstrike in southern Yemen. The airstrike is one of two thought to have been carried out by US-operated unmanned strike aircraft over the past several days.
Mohammed Saeed al Umda (also known as Ghareeb al Taizi) is said to be among three AQAP members believed to have been killed in an April 22 drone strike on a convoy in the Al Samadah area, near the border of Marib and Al Jawf provinces, a senior Yemeni official told The Long War Journal.
US officials contacted by The Long War Journal would neither confirm or deny the strike, but one intelligence official said that al Umda “has been in our crosshairs.” Airstrikes in Yemen on moving targets such as convoys are typically carried out by the CIA or the US military.
The US officials could not confirm his death. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its political front, Ansar al Sharia, have not released a martyrdom statement announcing his death.