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A Yemeni air strike against an Al-Qaeda operative claimed the lives of a local official and four of his boduguards and the target managed to flee after being wounded, a security source said Tuesday.The Al-Qaeda operative, Mohamed Said Bin Jardane, was wounded and then escaped, the source said of the overnight strike on a farm in the eastern province of Marib. But a local official, Jaber Ali al-Shabwani and four of his bodyguards were killed in the strike, the source said, adding that the vehicle they were in was at the farm that was bombed in the raid. The official had been negotiating for a week for Jardane's surrender. He had gone to the farm, belonging to Jardane's family, for talks.
