Third attack in five days.
Via LWJ:
The US launched its third drone strike in Yemen in the past five days, killing five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in an area in eastern Yemen that is said to be under the control of the terrorist group.
The remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers launched a pair of missiles at a target in the Qatan Valley in Hadramout province, killing five “al Qaeda militants,” and wounding three others, Xinhua reported. Reuters said the missiles struck a car, while Xinhua reported that the strike took place at an “al Qaeda-held site in the Qatan valley” that is “used for training terrorists.”
Hadramout is the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden’s family, and the province has become an AQAP bastion over the past several years.