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- ↑ Ivan Aditya (2017-03-04). "Ahli Bom Al Qaeda Tewas" [Al Qaeda bomb expert killed] (in Indonesian). Krjobja . Retrieved 2017-03-10.
Menurut pejabat keamanan AS serangan udara itu menewaskan Mossad al-Adani, Emir al-Qaeda di wilayah Abyan dan ahli bahan peledak. Kematian al-Adani diyakini akan menjadi pukulan telak bagi kelompok teroris bentukan Osama bin Laden.
[ permanent dead link ] - ↑ "Bekas tahanan Guantanamo terbunuh dalam serangan AS di Yaman" [Former Guantanamo detainees killed in US attack in Yemen] (in Malay). Washington DC: BH Online. 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
Yang turut terbunuh, pakar letupan, Usayd al-Adani. Dia juga berperanan sebagai ketua daerah kumpulan al-Qaeda di Semenanjung Arab.
- ↑ "Bekas Napi Guantanamo Tewas dalam Serangan Udara AS di Yaman" [Former Guantanamo Inmates Killed in US Air Attacks in Yemen] (in Indonesian). Tempo. 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
Belum diketahui apakah Yasir al-Silmi menjadi salah satu target serangan, tetapi Kapten Davis kepada Reuters mengatakan bahwa dia bukanlah target kelas kakap.
- ↑ "US air raids target al-Qaeda in Yemen, wound civilians". Al Jazeera. 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
The air raids also struck the home of al-Qaeda's commander in the area, Saad Atef, tribal sources told the AFP news agency.
- 1 2 3 Courtney Kube (2017-03-03). "Yemen Strike Kills Al Qaeda Bombmaker, Officials Say". NBC News . Retrieved 2017-03-10.
The death of Mossad al-Adani, al Qaeda's emir of Abyan governorate and an explosives expert, is a "blow to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," according to the officials. Also killed in that same strike was a former Guantanamo detainee, Yasir al-Silmi. He was at Guantanamo from 2002 to 2009
- ↑ Missy Ryan, Julie Tate (2016-03-06). "U.S. air campaign in Yemen kills former Guantanamo detainee". Washington Post . Archived from the original on March 7, 2017.
Silmi, a Yemeni national who had also gone by the name Mohamed Tahar, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002, and handed over to U.S. authorities in May of that year. While U.S. officials suspected him of having ties to al-Qaeda plots, Silmi, like the vast majority of the more than 700 inmates who have been held at Guantanamo since 2002, was never charged with a crime.
- ↑ Lucas Tomlinson (2017-03-07). "Ex-Gitmo detainee killed in US airstrike in Yemen, Pentagon says". Fox News . Retrieved 2017-03-06.
Yasir al-Silmi, who was held at Guantanamo Bay from 2002-2009, was killed in airstrikes on March 2, Davis said.
- ↑ "Former Guantanamo detainee killed in US air strike in Yemen". BBC News. 2017-03-06. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
He was killed in the same strike as Usayd al-Adani, "a long-time Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula explosives expert and facilitator who served as the organisation's emir," Cpt Davis said.
- ↑ Lolita C. Baldor (2017-03-06). "US airstrikes kill former Guantanamo detainee in Yemen". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on 2017-03-06. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
The 12-page memo, signed by Rear Adm. Mark Buzby, who was commander at the detention center at the time, raised Tahar's risk level from medium to high.
- ↑ "US Strikes Pound Qaida for Second Day". Naharnet. 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
Yemeni officials said at least 12 suspected militants were killed in those strikes, which came barely one month after a botched US commando raid against the group left multiple civilians and a Navy SEAL dead.