Missile strikes have killed eight suspected militants in an al-Qaida stronghold in Yemen, days after the U.S. announced it stopped a terrorist plot by the group's Yemen branch.
Local residents say the missile strikes occurred early Thursday within the southern town of Jaar, that is in a region used as a base by al-Qaida inside the Arabian Peninsula.
On Monday, U.S. officials revealed they thwarted a plot to bomb a U.S.-bound plane with an explosive underwear device rather like one crafted for an intended bombing in 2009.
U.S. media reports say the person sent by al-Qaida within the Arabian Peninsula to hold out the plot was actually a double agent who had infiltrated the fear group.
U.S. and foreign intelligence officials say the operative has given the explosive device to U.S. officials for analysis.
They also say the operative provided information that ended in a Sunday airstrike that killed al-Qaida leader Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso in Yemen. He was wanted for his role within the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole off the Yemeni coast.
Seventeen U.S. sailors died within the blast.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
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