A drone strike in Yemen missed Anwar al Awalki, a radical al Queda cleric. Al Awlaki runs al Queda in the Arabia peninsula. Too bad the scumbag was not blown into molecules.
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CBS News and The Wall Street Journal, citing Yemeni and U.S. officials, said on Friday that Anwar al-Awlaki was not hit when a missile was fired at a car in southern Yemen on Thursday, killing two brothers believed to be al Qaeda militants.
"We were hoping it was him," a U.S. official told CBS News.
The U.S. Defense Department declined to comment on the reports.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, is estimated to number about 300 fighters with strongholds in remote mountain regions in the provinces of Shabwa, Abyan, Jouf and Marib. It is thought to be behind numerous attacks on government targets.
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