![]() On August 1, 2011, US drones and reportedly Yemeni aircraft attacked three targets with bombs and missiles in South Yemen, killing 15 suspected al-Qaeda militants and wounding 17 others. The same day and nearby, drone missiles reportedly hit a car belonging to Yemeni al-Qaeda leader Fahd al-Quso, but al-Quso survived the attack. Yemeni media and government gave conflicting accounts on the number of casualties, estimated at between 6 and 50 killed. Īccording to local residents and unnamed American and Yemeni government officials, on JUS manned aircraft (or drones) attacked and destroyed a police station in Mudiya, Abyan Governorate which had been occupied by al-Qaeda militants. The Washington Post reported that the US previously used a base in Djibouti to fly drones over Yemen, while The Wall Street Journal reported that a US drone base in the Seychelles could be used to fly drones over Yemen. This base is located at Umm Al Melh, just north of Yemen inside Saudi Arabia. According to the Associated Press, in 2011 the US government began building an airbase near or in Yemen from which the CIA and US military plans to operate drones over Yemen. Four civilians were also reportedly killed in the strike, reportedly coordinated by American special forces and CIA operatives based in Sanaa. On JAmerican manned jets (or drones) attacked and killed Ali Abdullah Naji al-Harithi, a midlevel al-Qaeda operative, and several other militant suspects, including Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli, in a strike in southern Yemen. ![]() The strike intended to kill al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, but he was not hit in the strike. The missile struck their car, and both died instantly. On May 5, 2011, a missile fired from a US drone killed Abdullah and Mosaad Mubarak, brothers who may have been al-Qaeda militants. The killing so angered Shabwani's tribesmen that in the subsequent weeks they fought heavily with government security forces, twice attacking a major oil pipeline in Marib. In May 2010 an errant US drone attack targeting al-Qaeda terrorists in Wadi Abida, Yemen, killed five people, among them Jaber al-Shabwani, deputy governor of Ma'rib Governorate who was mediating between the government and the militants. and Kamal Derwish (aka Ahmed Hijazi), an American. Al-Harethi was on a list of targets whose capture or death had been ordered by US President George W. Among the dead were Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi (aka Abu Ali al-Harithi), a suspected senior al-Qaeda lieutenant believed to have helped mastermind the October 2000 USS Cole bombing. Six Yemeni suspected al-Qaeda members were blown up in their car in Marib province in November 2002 by a Hellfire missile from an unmanned CIA Predator drone. Timeline 2002 Įarly in 2002 the Bush administration approved sending about 100 Special Operations Forces to Yemen. Īn estimated 98 US drone attacks were conducted in Yemen from 2002 to 2015: 41 in 2012, 26 in 2013 and 14 in 2014. special forces troops were on the ground in Yemen helping to hunt al-Qaeda operatives. According to the Times, Yemen asked the United States to suspend the strikes after one of the missiles killed a pro-Yemeni tribal leader, Sheikh Jaber al-Shabwani, the deputy governor of Marib province, resulting in his tribe turning against the Yemeni government. Īccording to The Times, in 2010 the United States, in cooperation with Yemeni officials, launched four cruise missiles at suspected terrorist targets in Yemen. The report examined evolving tactics and countermeasures in dealing with al-Qaeda-inspired attacks. In 2004, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC-TV) international-affairs program Foreign Correspondent investigated the targeted killing and the involvement of the US ambassador as part of a report entitled "The Yemen Option". On November 5, 2002, Al-Qaeda operatives in a car traveling through Yemen were killed in a targeted killing by a missile launched from a CIA-controlled Predator drone. The US first said that it used targeted killing in November 2002, with the cooperation and approval of the Yemeni government. The Houthi movement have as well used drone warfare to attack the Saudi led coalition and pro Yemen government troops. With the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, the Saudi led coalition also attacked Houthi rebels using drone warfare. ![]() United States drone strikes in Yemen started after the Septemattacks in the United States, when the US military attacked Islamist militant presence in Yemen, in particular Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula using drone warfare. 1,367–1,758 total killed, 1,251–1,609 militants killed ( New America) or 846–1,159 militants killed ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) ġ16–149 civilians killed ( New America) or 174–225 civilians killed ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
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