Drones exterminate an alternative top Yemen al Qaeda figure
S. officials maintain whispered is the terror networks largely in force and largely treacherous fork. The slain media chief, identified when Egyptian-born Ibrahim al-Bana, was killed along with the six other militants wearing the southeastern province of Shabwa on Friday night, Yemens apology agency understood wearing a statement released Saturday. Al-Bana is described by a Yemeni executive who spoke to Reuters equally individual of the largely treacherous militants in the sphere of Yemen. Security officials understood an American hum approved revealed the attack, which was single of five overnight strikes to under fire assumed al Qaeda positions dressed in Shabwa and the neighboring province of Abyan, dressed in Yemens largely uncontrollable south. Yemeni officials set the death toll from all five attacks by the side of 24, Reuters says.