Yemen says media chief for al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch killed along with 6 others in airstrike

SANAA, Yemen — A U.S. airstrike has killed the media chief for al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch along with six other militants, the Defense Ministry and security officials said Saturday, in the second high-profile American missile attack in as many weeks to target the terror group in the country.

A ministry statement on Saturday said Egyptian-born Ibrahim al-Bana and six other militants were killed in the southeastern province of Shabwa on Friday night. Security officials said an American drone carried out the airstrike, which was one of five overnight strikes that targeted suspected al-Qaeda positions in Shabwa and the neighboring province of Abyan in Yemen's largely lawless south.

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N.C. Aizenman 15 Oct, 2011

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