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Washington PostSANAA, Yemen —
Two al-Qaeda operatives were killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike in the remote, mountainous Yemeni governorate of Shabwa early Thursday, according to a Yemeni security official.
The information about the strike came from Col. Hamid Saleh, security director of the Mayfaa district in the Shabwa governorate. He said the men were killed when a missile struck their car.A Yemeni government spokesman, while not confirming that the missile was fired by a U.S. drone, identified the dead men as brothers Musaed Mubarak Aldaghery and Abdullah Mubarak Aldaghery.
The two men were active in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, officials said. Even before the killing this week of Osama bin Laden, American government officials had warned that the al-Qaeda branch in Yemen had emerged as a more active and dangerous foe than the core group of al-Qaeda led by its central command in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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