[secretagent]

I hadn't read that yet, but it makes sense. Otherwise I would seen a few thread headlines about a Yemeni protest by now.

[per loin]

Here's a couple of paragraphs on it from the WashPost:

Attack on Al-Qaida suspects had Yemen's approval

Washington Post
Published Nov. 6, 2002	YEME06

The U.S. Predator missile that killed six suspected Al-Qaida terrorists traveling Sunday in Yemen was fired with the cooperation and approval of that country's leadership, U.S. sources said Tuesday.

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Yemeni officials have said that their intelligence agents were communicating to U.S. intelligence the movements of Abu Ali al-Harithi, the top Al-Qaida operative who was the prime target in the attack. Officially, the government of Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleb in Sana'a has only announced it is investigating the cause of the explosion that killed the terrorists.

In the wake of the attack, however, Saleb had a message read over national television that asked those who had joined Bin Laden's network to come forward to avoid what happened to Al-Harithi. "We call on everyone from among our countrymen who have been entangled in membership of the Al-Qaida organization to repent . . . and renounce all means of violence," the statement said.