[Ynet] Two suspected members of Yemen's al-Qaeda were killed on Tuesday in an air raid on the southern Hadramawt province, a security official said.
The two, going by the names Abu Jandal al-Hadrami and Abu Hashim al-Sharuri, were killed in what appeared to be a US air strike, the official said, requesting that his name be withheld.
The United States has conducted more than 40 air raids, including dronezaps, against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
(AQAP) in March alone.
Many of the strikes have targeted towns in southern provinces where the radical group is known to operate.
At least 25 suspected AQAP members have been killed in the raids.
The United States regards AQAP as the Islamist Death Eater network's most dangerous branch. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
Washington rarely reports on its drone raids on Yemen, which began in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Hadramawt, Yemen's largest governorate, is currently under government control. AQAP continues to hold limited sway in the province. 
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