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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 9 November 2012 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Global |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | drone strike; drones |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Al Jazeera |
| Title | Yemen drone strike kills ‘al-Qaeda members’ |
| Dateline | — |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/11/9/yemen-drone-strike-kills-al-qaeda-members |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2012-11-09|al-jazeera|yemen-beit-al-ahmar-qadhi |
| Source grade | B1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — B1]** Al Jazeera reported a drone strike near the Yemeni capital killed three suspected al-Qaeda members, including a man wanted for the 2008 US embassy attack in Sanaa. Officials said Thursday the strike, believed to have been carried out by the United States, hit a car near Beit al-Ahmar in Sanhan, 15 km southeast of Sanaa. One dead was named as Adnan al-Qadhi, a former Afghanistan jihadist wanted for the 2008 embassy car bomb that killed six Yemeni soldiers and four civilians. Gregory Johnsen tweeted a question whether Qadhi was considered to be actively plotting against the US; Ibrahim Mothana tweeted about drone strikes in a “Secret War.” US drones had backed Yemeni forces against AQAP; after a May offensive most fighters had fled to eastern desert regions.

**Kinematic object.** U.S.-believed drone strike on a car at Beit al-Ahmar, Sanhan

**Coverage frame.** incident / military

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original
- Wire reprint status: Al Jazeera original from Yemeni security officials. Not labelled a wire reprint.
- What was excluded

- “Published On 9 Nov 2012” is on the fetched page.
- Tweets are on the page and treated as contemporaneous reaction, not as independent facts.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Campaign. Named targeted killing near Sanaa.

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