American airstrike kills nine al-Qaida militants in Yemen
Sunday, October 16, 2011
SANAA, Yemen -- The United States has raised the tempo in its war against al-Qaida in Yemen, killing nine of the terror group's militants in the second, high-profile airstrike in as many weeks. The dead in the late Friday night strike included the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, the prominent American-Yemeni militant killed in a Sept. 30 strike.
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