Pastor to preach about the sin of the "base" organization in his small Yemeni village, warning residents away from the group of soldiers and their hard-line ideology. Lectures worried residents, fearing that it will bring retaliation from the militants, and even the pastor's father wanted him to stop.
But it is not the "base" organization killing of Sheikh Salim Ahmed Ali Jaber.
"Base" organization soldiers, who hides in the remote eastern Khashamir village near hills, did not give him a call and asked him to meet them one night - apparently in order to intimidate him to stop his preaching to them.
Sheikh Salim that he had no choice but to meet them, but a cousin of the police insisted accompanied him as protection, according to the pastor's brother - in - law, Faisal Bin Ali Bin Jabir, who tells the story of the event correlation press.
"Once they reach the car in the" base "organization, four missiles hit," Faisal said. In the homes of villagers, he heard an explosion - I heard that the American drone attacks car. "We know that the the UAV overhead of buzz," he said.
Yemeni security officials confirmed that three militants, with Sheikh Salim and his cousin, in August last year and killed in a strike, which is carried out by U.S. drones.
Secret against the "base" organization in Yemen, the United States has greatly enhanced the use of unmanned aircraft impact over the past year, the score is the key to success against one of the most active branches in the terrorist network. More than 40 reports of the strike in 2012 and nine so far this year, Yemen has become the second largest before the U.S. drone war, Pakistan.
But the upgrade also means that more civilians get caught in the crossfire.
Civilian deaths breeding resentment at the local level, sometimes undermine U.S. efforts to the public against militants. The rebound is still not as large as in Pakistan, where there is heavy pressure on the government restrictions on strike - but publicly called for an end to the strike has begun to show.
Dozens of activists protest near the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Monday, condemned the strike. UAV plan is to intimidate our people, "activist President Barack Obama wrote in an open letter. "Who does not know the future UAVs will strike, do not know how many innocent victims will die."
In the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week in Washington UAV program, Farea the village of al-Muslimi, Yemen was hit only days ago, told senators, unmanned aircraft "damage efforts to win hearts and minds", said unmanned aircraft "in the face of the United States" Many Yemenis.
"What kind of violent militants had failed to achieve an unmanned strike in an instant," he said.
Faisal ibn Jabir said that the strike deepened in Khashamir fear.
Sheikh Salem said in his sermon "how to kill and labeling Western infidels and who is wrong," Faisal said.
The strike everyone see no distinction between us and Al Qaeda people are asking why do not we simply added to the "base" organization, because it does not what difference does it? "He said. The pastor's widow - Faisal's sister now rely on the support of relatives and neighbors, she and her seven children.
Although the United States recognizes its drone program in Yemen, but does not confirm the number of individual strike or to publish information has been carried out. Three groups compiled data strike, mainly from news reports, including the AP, according to Yemeni security officials reported: News Bureau of Investigation headquarters in London and headquarters in the long war magazine in the United States and the New America Foundation.
They estimate that the number of U.S. air strikes on different - from 44 to 67, since 2002, the majority of them drones. Compile accurate data has become more difficult, because Until recently, the Yemeni military is responsible for clearly by the United States many combat.
All three groups to commemorate last year's dramatic escalation. The long war magazine, for example, recorded 42 strikes in 2012, from 10 in the previous year. According to the Associated Press reported so far, the strike in September 2013.
In comparison, the United States has carried out more than 330 air strikes in Pakistan since 2004, although the rate has dropped - from a peak of 117 strikes in 2010 to 46 in 2012, according to the count of the long war magazine.
Determine the number of civilian deaths is even more difficult. The Long War Journal has confirmed that 35 civilians and 193 militants killed in U.S. strike in 2012, the previous year's six civilians and 10 militants this year, 31 militants, civilians were killed, according to its count AP reported this year, killing 33 militants, there is no confirmation of civilian deaths.
CIA Director John Brennan said the strike is only used as a last resort the suspect, believe in a conspiracy against the United States.
"In the short term, targeted against the most advanced and the most dangerous AQAP terrorists are no problem, they are part of the solution," he said at the Council on Foreign Relations speech in August, the use of group The full name of the acronym, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The United States says al-Qaeda branch in Yemen is their most dangerous and most active branch. It has been linked to several attempted attacks on U.S. targets, including a botched Christmas Day 2009 bombing of a Detroit airliner filled with explosives aboard cargo flights intercepted parcel after one year.
The ear strike in 2012 came to the United States to support military operations in Yemen, to eradicate al Qaeda militants and their radical allies to take over the southern string of cities and towns. The campaign, including heavy fighting on the ground driven in large part by the Yemeni army and militants into the mountains to the countryside.
The drone attacks have taken a high-level goals, such as the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, it is believed that al-Qaeda's recruitment has been a powerful tool in the West. However, in most cases, there targeting middle Operative. Still at large are the leaders of the al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi.
Shortly after the death of al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, a teenage cousin killed in suspected U.S. drone strike. Subsequently, the Yemeni demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. embassy, ??photos and posters of young people to carry, "said U.S. taxpayers to kill U.S. citizens" and "Where is the justice in?"
On Sunday, relatives of civilians killed gathered in Sana'a to raise awareness on the death of the first meeting of the first of its kind, by the London-based legal action group Reprieve strike.
Mohamed Ahmed Bijash told the participants that his 10-year-old daughter were killed when a missile hit her school last year, in the course of the fighting, "base" Qaeda militants out of the southern city of Jaar.
"We are committed U.S. bomb hit our homes is what crime?" He said at the meeting. "They have put our lives in hell."
Hussein Said Dahman 16-year-old son was knocked unconscious drone strike in December, while the in the city 莎尔哈达拉 hair playing football with friends.
"The sky rained the U.S. missile, then part of the body of the kids on the football field," his father told The Associated Press. His son, Hamza, is still bedridden and unable to speak.
The American Bar Corey KREID, who works reprieve, said she was speaking the warning strike tribal leaders, only by strengthening support for the "base" organization.
"An absolute" base "a branch of the organization, they are real," she told The Associated Press. "The question now is, what is the appropriate response?"
"You can not bomb your way out of the rebellion."
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