'CIA missile' kills Yemen al-Qaida suspects

Six al-Qaida suspects, including Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant in Yemen, were killed when US forces carried out their first overt strike on the terror group in the Middle East by firing a Hellfire missile on the suspects’ car.

A US official in Washington confirmed that US forces carried out the strike, believed to have been conducted by a CIA aircraft, possibly a missile-carrying Predator drone, in north-west Yemen.