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Abu Ali al-Harithi ( operative who is believed to have been the mastermind behind the October 2000 USS Cole Bombing . He was killed by the U.S. CIA during a covert mission in Yemen on November 3, 2002. The CIA used an RQ-1 Predator remote-controlled pilotless drone to shoot the Hellfire Missile that killed al-Harithi and five other suspected Al-Qaida operatives as they rode in a vehicle 100 miles east of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa . Al-Harithi was traveling with Ahmed Hijazi , a US citizen, and Hijazi's killing is the first known case of the U.S. government intentionally killing an American citizen during the War On Terror . Unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, Yemen was not considered a battlefield or an enemy state by the United States at the time of the attack. The George W. Bush administration, citing the authority of a presidential finding that permits worldwide covert actions against Osama Bin Laden ’s al-Qaida network, considered al-Harithi and his traveling party a justifiable military target. The late and then foreign minister of Sweden , Anna Lindh did not share that view and described the attack as "a summary execution that violates human rights". {Link without Title} REFERENCES |
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