Yemeni officials say media Chief militant group killed al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula (AQAP) in an air strike in the southern Yemen.
The Defense Ministry said Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian national and six others were killed in militant Shabwa province on Friday.
Some reports said that the attack involved us it was drones, others that Yemeni aircraft.
US drones killed the leader of that group, Anwar al-Awlaki, last month.
Pipeline attack
The Yemen Ministry of defence said Banna late on Friday of Yemeni fighters in Shabwa, a militant stronghold east of Aden, was killed.
It calls him one of the Group of "most dangerous security forces", wanted international was to the "attacks both within and outside the Yemen planning".
However, a local official told Agence France-Presse said "three, apparently American strikes" launched against militant targets were, although he had said a hit, a mosque.
Earlier reports of Banna of death, including one in January last year, but these were denied by AQAP.
AFP also a tribal source quoted as say, that one of the sons, Abderrahman Awlaki Anwar al-Awlaki, were killed in the Friday attack, but they are not independently confirmed.
Reuters news agency reports that militant later you had blown a gas pipeline, Belhaf province on the Arabian Sea, with flames visible several kilometres running by Maarib.
Yemen played down regularly from the United States ' role in the country, saying it is own operations support of Yemen.
A us drone attack in Khashef in Jawf province, about 140 km (90 km) East of the capital, Sana'a on 30 September Awlaki, United States born radical Islamist cleric and United States born propagandist Samir Khan killed.
The militant group had while sworn revenge for the assassination prompted a worldwide travel warning for Americans.
AQAP has taken over several towns in the southern Yemen, because attempting to benefit from the political turmoil has been struggling to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, eight months of street protests against his rule.
The White House has Mr Saleh step down, called call charges by Yemeni officials, the the United States not respected those who work with them.
Source: theindependentbd.com
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