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(AP) SANAA, Yemen – An airstrike killed al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader in Yemen along with six others traveling with him in one car on Monday, U.S. and Yemeni officials said, a major breakthrough for U.S.-backed efforts to cripple the group in the impoverished Arab nation. Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by a missile after leaving a house in the southern province of Hadramawt, according to Yemeni military officials. They said the missile was believed to have been fired by a U.S.-operated, unmanned drone aircraft. Two senior U.S. officials confirmed al-Shihri’s death but could not confirm any U.S. involvement in the airstrike. The U.S. doesn’t usually comment on such attacks although it has used drones in the past to go after al Qaeda members in Yemen, which is considered a crucial battleground with the terror network. Yemeni military officials said that a local forensics team had identified al-Shihri’s body with the help of U.S. forensics experts on the ground. The U.S. and Yemeni military officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information to the media. Norwegian at center of new al Qaeda plot fearsYemen: Al Qaeda land mines planted by fleeing militants kill 73 civiliansYemen army general leading fight against al Qaeda killed by suicide...

Washington and its allies have been pressing for a fourth round of U.N. penalties on Iran for its refusal to halt a key part of its nuclear program that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Iran says it only wants the technology for producing nuclear power. In a revelation likely to add to their suspicions, however, a former foreign minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, was quoted as telling a newspaper that Iran obtained its first centrifuge from Pakistan in 1986. It was Iran’s first public confirmation of a clandestine transfer of nuclear technology specifically from Pakistan, which itself had already acknowledged the nuclear sales. Centrifuges, 의성출장안마 which purify uranium gas, are the central component of a process that can make fuel for power plants or – at higher levels of processing – weapons. Iran’s nuclear work remained a secret until 2003, when the U.N.’s nuclear monitoring agency began investigating the program. Its work and Iran’s assurances that it only has peaceful motives have failed to quell the international concern and suspicion. Mousavi Decries Clerical Corruption in Iran The timing of the new revelation was unusual, as Iran is in the middle of a diplomatic sprint around the globe to try to persuade other U.N. Security Council members to oppose new sanctions. In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said officials were meeting daily at the United Nations in an...