SANAA (Reuters) - A radical Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base is believed to have died in a Yemen airstrike on al Qaeda militants, a security official said on Thursday.
"Anwar al Awlaki is suspected to be dead (in the air raid)," said the Yemeni official, who asked not to be identified. Yemen said 30 militants were killed in the strike in the eastern province of Shabwa.
By the way this is the place the Obama admin has decided to repatriate several detainees the other day, seems like a strange choice considering they are ina state of near civil war. Anyway it appears the US is stepping up its presence in that beleaguered country:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has poured nearly $70 million in military aid to Yemen this year, a massive financial infusion aimed at eliminating the expanding al-Qaida safe havens in that country.
Airstrikes Thursday in Yemen's Shabwa province, in which at least 30 suspected militants were said to have been killed, is evidence of Yemen's more aggressive efforts against al-Qaida.
The U.S. spending in the fast-growing campaign to better equip and fund Yemeni forces compares with no spending in 2008.
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