Mon Feb 13 2012
WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. official says an al-Qaida leader who played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed in a missile strike last week.
The counterterrorism official says Hussein al-Yemeni was believed killed in a strike in Miram Shah, the main town in North Waziristan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
Al-Yemeni is considered an important al-Qaida planner and explosives expert who had established contacts with groups ranging from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula to Afghan and Pakistani Taliban militant groups.
In the attack, a Jordanian suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees -- four officers and three contracted security guards -- and a Jordanian intelligence officer.
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