Eli Lake & Josh Rogin, Bloomberg: How the U.S. Tracked Down Al-Qaeda's Yemen Chief
The Central Intelligence Agency was able to do something last weekend many suspected it could not: locate and kill the leader of al-Qaeda's Yemen franchise, Nasir al-Wuhayshi.
The agency did it, according to U.S. officials familiar with the events, with no official presence in Yemen and no partnership with the country's intelligence service or military. Houthi rebels overran Yemen's capital in February, toppling the friendly government of Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi and forcing the U.S. to close its embassy and CIA station. In March, the U.S. pulled out most of its special operations forces.
At that point, many experts said the U.S. fight against al-Qaeda there was effectively over. But the U.S. government still had satellites and drones to monitor the terrorists and eavesdrop on communications they were careless enough not to encrypt.
WNU Editor: A rare success story.
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