How about this. If American citizen Raed Hijazi is the same guy as a victim in last week's Yemeni Desert attack, USgov rigs the guy with tracking somehow in Amman. Puts pressure on Jordanians to release him. Hijazi goes over to Yemen to link up with the big fish, his colleague(s) who worked on the USS Cole bombings, leads the USgov right to them in the Yemeni desert through hitech means. The six of them get blown to smithereens in a car going eastbound from Sa'naa in a hit attempt on the US Ambassador who is also out east of the capital.
Less possible: Or, they did not wire him, but they asked him upon release from Jordan to again to cooperate (if they guy had experience with FBI informing) to lead them to the "bigger cheese", but the USgov decides that once they have their raghead target they are going to blast them all, collateral damage and all.
Quite intriguing as I have been saying and trying to connect, if this turns out to be the same 'Hijazi".
sorry, self post.
Unless he isn't dead, just in protective custody. There were reports of a Yemeni helicopter near the area.