Virginized.

Via LWJ:

The US killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in the first recorded drone strike in Yemen in more than five weeks. The target of the US strike was a senior AQAP commander who in the past said he is not afraid of dying in a US airstrike.

The remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired a missile at a vehicle in the al-Arq al-Awsat area of Marib province, according to The Yemen Post. An AQAP commander known as Mujahid Gaber al Shabwani and two other AQAP operatives are reported to have been killed, The Hindu reported.

Abdul Razzaq al Jamal, a Yemeni journalist who is closely tied to AQAP, reported on his Facebook account that the target of today’s airstrike was Sheikh Ma’moun Abdulhamid Hatem, an AQAP leader and cleric, as well as a tribal leader in Ibb province. Hatem was not reported to have been killed. US officials contacted by The Long War Journal would not comment on the target of the strike, but one intelligence official said Hatem is “a person of interest.”