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Summary US drone strikes killed 8 Al-Qaeda militants in their southern Yemeni stronghold of Jaar.
US drone strikes killed eight Al-Qaeda militants at a gathering of the jihadists in their southern Yemeni stronghold of Jaar, a local source said on Thursday.We heard three explosions rock the town at midnight (2100 GMT), the source said, adding that a US drone carried out the strikes on a residence where they had been meeting.Eight militants were killed and their bodies were left in pieces, he told AFP.The raid came after an air strike in eastern Yemen on Sunday killed Fahd al-Quso, an Al-Qaeda leader wanted in connection with the deadly 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.US media reported on Tuesday that Qusos killing came after information provided by a man who had infiltrated the militant group and was ordered by Al-Qaedas branch in Yemen to blow up a US-bound airliner.American officials leaked out details of the extraordinary intelligence coup two days after the White House announced a plot by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, had been successfully thwarted.
