TRIPOLI: A U.S. drone attack killed four including a senior Al-Qaeda leader in Libya, local media reported on Friday.
According to reports, the dawn strike targeted their car as it left the base of the 27th Mechanized Brigade in the Hadramawt provincial capital Mukalla.
The official identified the victims as Shuaib al-Maliki of Saudi Arabia and the Kuwaiti Abdul Aziz al-Otaibi, along with two Yemenis.
Their deaths bring to 13 the number of suspected al-Qaeda militants killed by similar strikes in Yemen over the past 10 days, and follows the death of the second-in-command of al-Qaeda’s global network
