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Extrajudicial Executions are OK

BBC news | 05.11.2002 13:18

CIA missile killed suspected militants in Yemen, casting doubt on the US's condemnation of Israeli 'targeted assassinations' policy.

From BBC News website:

America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carried out an attack in Yemen that killed six suspected members of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, according to US officials.
Unnamed sources say the men died after the car they were travelling in was hit by a missile fired from an unmanned CIA plane early on Monday.
Although those killed have not been officially identified, Yemeni sources say they include Ali Senyan al-Harthi, whom the US has linked to the attack on the warship USS Cole off Aden in October 2000.
A BBC correspondent in Washington says that this would be the first time the US had carried out such an attack outside Afghanistan.
Determination
"As I understand it, it was an agency drone," a US official told the Reuters news agency.
It was reportedly a Hellfire missile that was used to target Harthi, also known as Abu Ali, after his car had been observed for a period of time.
The CIA would not comment publicly on the reports.
Neither would President George W Bush.
But during campaigning for US Congressional elections he told voters of his continued determination to destroy al-Qaeda.
"The only way to treat them is [for] what they are - international killers.
"And the only way to find them is to be patient, and steadfast, and hunt them down. And the United States of America is doing just that."
The six men were killed on Sunday in the northern province of Marib, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of the capital Sana'a, Yemeni security officials said.
'Planning attack'
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused to say whether American forces had any role in the attack on Harthi's car, but he congratulated Yemen on its cooperation with the US in the fight against al-Qaeda.
"The arrangement has been a good one and it is on-going," he said.
"It would be a very good thing if he were out of business," he added, referring to the reports of Harthi's death, while declining to confirm them.
Earlier, a Yemeni Government source told the BBC that communications equipment and traces of explosives were found in the car.
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says it is believed the occupants may have been planning an attack on Western interests.
"Authorities have been monitoring this particular car for a while and we believe those men belonged to the al-Qaeda terror network," an official told the Associated Press.
On the run
Harthi was wanted by the FBI for his alleged links to al-Qaeda.
He has been on the run in Yemen, pursued by security forces which have been looking for him and another suspect in the USS Cole bombing case, Muhammad Hamdi al-Ahdal, for the past year.
Harthi had been moving between locations and hiding amongst the well-armed tribes.
When Yemeni Government forces came looking for him in al-Hosun, a tribal village in Marib, last December they were driven back by a hail of gunfire.
Eighteen Yemeni soldiers and three villagers died in the incident, but Harthi was not found.
Yemen remains keen to shed its image as a haven for al-Qaeda militants and says it is holding 85 members of the organisation arrested after a manhunt.
US military personnel were deployed there earlier this year, also to co-ordinate a crackdown on militants.
On Sunday two people were injured when a helicopter carrying employees from an American oil company to Marib came under gunfire just after take-off and was forced to make an emergency landing at Sana'a airport.

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  1. by any means possible — religion is filth
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