CIA ‘seeks permission to widen scope of Yemen drone strikes’

But AQAP has been expanding its area of operations in Yemen as the country has
been immersed in a political crisis that forced Ali Abdullah Saleh, the
president, to resign after months of protest.

Intelligence officials said concerns over the proposal centred on fears that
US firepower would be used on fighters opposed to the Yemeni government.
Attacks that killed local insurgents who control a large slice of the
country around Abyan in the south would provoke a backlash among ordinary
Yemenis. “How discriminating can they be?” a senior US official
who had seen the request told the paper. “I think there is the
potential that we would be perceived as taking sides in a civil war.”

American strikes have killed 90 suspects since the start of March.

A US drone accidentally killed the teenaged American son of al-Qaeda leader
Anwar al-Awlaki last year, despite the fact he never was formally charged
with terrorist activity.

AQAP sent printer cartridge bombs on international airlines to Chicago
synagogues in 2010, just months after it trained Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,
the “underpants bomber”.

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