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The CIA used an unmanned Predator drone to blow up a car carrying six suspected al Qaeda operatives in Yemen on Sunday.
The passengers were believed to include a man linked to the bombing of the USS Cole two years ago, sources said.
He was identified as Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, also known as Abu Ali. Sources said he was considered al Qaeda's top man in Yemen.
All that was left of the car was rubble in the desert. US sources said the cars was destroyed by a Hellfire missile launched from the Predator surveillance plane.
Officials said the CIA, using American and Yemeni agents on the ground - and the Predator overhead - had been tracking the suspect for weeks, waiting for the right moment.
(Xinhua News Aagency November 5, 2002)
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