Hours After CIA Drone Strike, al-Qaeda Attacks Yemeni Base, Kills 20

Ahmed Al-haj
Associated Press

May 7, 2012

Al-Qaeda militants staged a surprise attack Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 20 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a U.S. drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.

It was not immediately clear if the pre-dawn attack on the military base in the southern Abyan province was in retaliation for the death of Fahd al-Quso, a top al-Qaeda leader on the FBI’s most wanted list.

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