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Politics : Terrorism
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To: lorne who wrote (411)11/9/2002 3:18:19 PM
From: Neeka  Read Replies (1) of 642
 
US defends anti-terror missile strike in Yemen

A controversial CIA-led missile strike against suspected Al Qaeda members in Yemen was "legal and necessary", the coordinator for counter-terrorism in the US State Department said.

"We will use whatever is necessary and legal to attack this (terrorist) threat, to interdict it and eliminate it," Francis Taylor told a media briefing in Manila at the end of a visit to Australia and south-east Asia.

Asked whether the covert Yemeni strike a week ago which killed six suspected terrorists was necessary and legal, Taylor said yes.

"Both legal and the appropriate tool given the circumstances," he said.

The six suspected Al Qaeda operatives were killed by a Hellfire missile launched from a remote-controlled CIA Predator aircraft as they rode in a vehicle 160 kilometres east of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, reports have said.

Among the dead men was reportedly a senior Al Qaeda leader suspected of masterminding the October 2000 attack on the US destroyer Cole.

abc.net.au
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