Terror leader had been on the run for months

Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, al-Qaida’s top man in Yemen who was killed in a US air strike, had eluded capture for months by hiding in the desert and remote villages.

He was among six members of al-Qaida, the terror group led by Osama bin Laden, who died yesterday when a Hellfire missile, believed to have been fired from a CIA aircraft, struck their car in the province of Marib, about 100 miles east of the Yemeni capital San’a.