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Monday, November 4, 2002 Posted: 4:15 PM EST (2115 GMT)
SAN'A, Yemen (CNN) -- The United States launched a missile at a car in Yemen early Monday killing six suspected al Qaeda members, including the terrorist organization's chief in that country who was wanted for the bombing of the USS Cole, sources told CNN.
Few details were released about the attack or how the missile was launched. Pentagon and U.S. intelligence officials refused to discuss the report.
The blast happened in the northern province of Marib, about 105 miles (170 kilometers) east of the capital, San'a.
Sources identified one of the dead as Abu Ali, also known as Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, who was believed to have played a major role in the October 2000 attack on the destroyer Cole that killed 17 sailors.
Ali once served as one of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's senior bodyguards.
While not confirming the report, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of Ali at the Pentagon briefing Monday when questioned about the attack. "It would be a very good thing if he were out of business," he said.
In August, U.S.-trained Yemeni troops deployed in Marib, a tribal stronghold where authorities believe al Qaeda members or supporters are operating.
A helicopter carrying U.S. oil company employees came under small arms fire just after takeoff from San'a airport Sunday, forcing an emergency landing that slightly injured two people.
A explosion ripped a hole in a French supertanker in an apparent terrorist attack off the coast of Aden last month, almost exactly two years after the USS Cole attack.
Yemen is the ancestral home of Saudi-born fugitive Osama bin Laden's family.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast...last/index.html
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