Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi

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Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi
Died	(2002-11-03)November 3, 2002 Sana'a, Yemen
Nationality	Yemeni
Occupation	Terrorist

Military career
Allegiance	Al-Qaeda
Service / branch	Islamic Jihad in Yemen (?-2002)
Years of service	?-2002
Rank	Leader and planner in Yemen

Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, also known as Abu Ali al-Harithi (Arabic: أبو علي الحارثي) (died November 3, 2002) was an al-Qaeda operative and a citizen of Yemen who is suspected of having been involved in the October 2000 USS Cole bombing,^[1] and the October Limburg attack.^[2]

He was killed by the CIA during a covert targeted killing mission in Yemen on November 3, 2002. The CIA used a Predator drone to shoot the Hellfire missile that killed al-Harithi and five other al-Qaeda operatives as they rode in a vehicle 100 miles (160 km) east of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.^[3] It was the first known drone strike outside of Afghanistan.^[4]

Al-Harithi was traveling with Kamal Derwish (Ahmed Hijazi), a US citizen, and Derwish's killing was the first known case of the U.S. government killing a U.S. citizen during the "War on Terror".^[5]

The George W. Bush administration, citing the authority of a presidential finding that permitted worldwide covert actions against Osama bin Laden's network, considered al-Harethi and his traveling party a justifiable military target.^[1]^[5] Nonetheless, the targeted killing of al-Harethi was the subject of debate on its legality.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Pincus, Walter (November 6, 2002). "US missiles kill al Qaeda suspects". Washington Post. The Age. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
^ Herbert-Burns, Rupert; Bateman, Sam; Lehr, Peter, eds. (September 2008). Lloyd's MIU handbook of maritime security. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 60. ISBN 9781420054804. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
^ "U.S. kills al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen". USA TODAY. Associated Press. November 5, 2002. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
^ Naylor, Sean. (September 2015). Relentless strike : the secret history of Joint Special Operations Command (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-250-01454-2. OCLC 908554550.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b Priest, Dana (November 8, 2002). "U.S. Citizen Among Those Killed In Yemen Predator Missile Strike". Washington Post. The Tech. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
^ Whitaker, Brian; Burkeman, Oliver (November 5, 2002). "Killing probes the frontiers of robotics and legality". The Guardian. Retrieved June 25, 2013.

External links

Steve Scher on Weekday February 23, 2007 KUOW-FM interviews James Bamford on the National Security Agency (Note: minutes 21–24 of 54 minute audio)

Al-Qaeda

Leadership

Former
leadership

Killed	Osama bin Laden (killing) Ayman al-Zawahiri (killing) Mohammed Atef Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil Haitham al-Yemeni Abu Hamza Rabia Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Omar al-Faruq Haitham al-Badri Abu Yaqub al-Masri Abu Talha al-Sudani Abu Laith al-Libi Abu Sulayman Al-Jazairi Midhat Mursi Mohamed Moumou Khalid Habib Abu Ghadiya Abu Zubair al-Masri Rashid Rauf Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan Saad bin Laden Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan Abdullah Said al Libi Saleh al-Somali Saeed al-Masri Hamza al-Jawfi Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali Mohamed Abul-Khair Sheikh Fateh Huthaifa al-Batawi Ilyas Kashmiri Fazul Abdullah Mohammed Atiyah Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Awlaki Samir Khan Tariq al-Dahab Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan Fahd al-Quso Abu Yahya al-Libi Hassan Ghul Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti Said Ali al-Shihri Farman Ali Shinwari Abdelhamid Abou Zeid Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki Said Bahaji Abu Khalid al-Suri Omar Ould Hamaha Ahmed Abdi Godane Abu Yusuf Al-Turki Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah Adam Yahiye Gadahn Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad al-Rubaysh Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi Nasir al-Wuhayshi Muhsin al-Fadhli Abu Khalil al-Madani Matiur Rehman Abu Firas al-Suri Ahmed Refai Taha Mokhtar Belmokhtar Abu Khayr al-Masri Ibrahim al-Asiri Hamza bin Laden Sari Shihab Asim Umar Qasim al-Raymi Abdelmalek Droukdel Khalid al-Aruri Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah Abu Muhsin al-Masri
Captured	Mamdouh Mahmud Salim Wadih el-Hage Khalid al-Fawwaz Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Walid bin Attash Riduan Isamuddin Ali al-Bahlul Ahmed Ghailani Abu Faraj al-Libbi Mustafa Setmariam Nasar Abdul Hadi al Iraqi Muhammad Jafar Jamal al-Kahtani Mohamed Atiq Awayd Al Harbi Younis al-Mauritani Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Abu Anas al-Libi Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh Mukhtar Robow Amin al-Haq
Other	Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri (died) Abu Ubaidah al-Masri (died) Mahfouz Ould al-Walid (left) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (expelled) Abu Mohammad al-Julani (left) Abu Maria al-Qahtani (left) Ahmad Salama Mabruk (left) Abu Omar al-Turkistani (left) Abu Sulayman al-Muhajir (left) Khalid Batarfi (died)