God bless the CIA.

Via LWJ:

The US killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a drone strike in Yemen yesterday. The strike, which reportedly killed a Saudi jihadist, is the first in Yemen more than three weeks.

The US-operated, unmanned Predators or Reapers fired several missiles at a vehicle traveling in the Qahb Al Hisan area between Marib and Hadramout provinces, Yemeni officials said, according to The Yemen Post. A second car traveling with the one that was hit escaped unscathed.

Yemeni officials claimed that “a Saudi militant named Salim Mubarak al Saiary” was killed in the strike, The Yemen Post reported. Al Saiary is not identified on Saudi Arabia’s most-wanted lists, and his role in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is unknown.

oday strike is the fourth recorded in Yemen this month, and the first in three weeks. On Aug. 7, the US carried out two strikes in Yemen. Yemeni officials said that Abdullah Awad al Masri, a wanted bombmaker who is also known as Abou Osama al Maribi, was killed in one of the strikes that also killed two Egyptians, a Tunisian, a Saudi, and a Bahraini. And on Aug. 4, the US conducted an airstrike in Hadramout province.