(New York Times) Eric Schmitt - For a fifth consecutive night, American planes and drones on Monday pummeled targets in Yemen, killing 7 al-Qaeda fighters, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said. The U.S. has conducted more than 40 attacks across Yemen in the past week, compared to 41 strikes in all of 2012, the most in a single year against al-Qaeda in Yemen. A March 2 strike killed Mohammed Tahar, a former prisoner held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo, Cuba, and Usayd al-Adnani, a "longtime explosives expert who served as the organization's emir" in Abyan Province.
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