Virginized.
Via LWJ:
US drones killed an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander and five fighters in a strike in northern Yemen in the border with Saudi Arabia.
The remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers launched several missiles at two vehicles traveling in the Al Mahashma area in Al Jawf province today, The Associated Press reported.
An AQAP commander known as Saleh Hassan Jredan or Hassan al Saleh Huraydan, his brother, and four other fighters are reported to have been killed in the airstrike.
US drones have struck AQAP in Al Jawf three other times in the past. Two of the three strikes targeted top AQAP leaders. In September 2011, the US killed Anwar al Awlaki, the American propagandist, ideologue, recruiter, and operational commander, and Samir Khan, an American who ran Inspire Magazine, in an airstrike in the province. Awlaki sheltered at the homes of Islah leaders in Al Jawf before he was killed. And in January 2010, an airstrike targeted Qasim al Raymi, AQAP’s top military commander. He and other senior AQAP officials survived the strike.