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Up to four civilians were killed in an alleged U.S drone strike in Wessab al Ali on the 17th of April 2013. However there is some discrepancy in earlier reports which alleged all killed were militants.
A suspected Al Qaeda leader Hamid al Radami (aka Hammed al Masea Meftah, Hamed Radman, Hamid Radman al Manea, also nicknamed “Abu Osama”), 40, father of 8 children, was killed while he was on his way to his home from the village market in his car with three to four other companions according to local sources. A Yemeni defence ministry website named the other four dead as Mukram Ali Ahmed Hamoud al Haj, 20; Ghazi Hamoud al Imad, 28 and father of two children; Najem Addin Ali Abdullah al Raai; and Ismael al Magdishi (aka Ismail Ahmed al Muqdishi), 29. According to reports, they were companions of al Radami.
However Swiss-based NGO Alkarama reported that militant Najem Addin Ali Abdullah al Raai, who was originally reported killed in the strike, was found alive later. Alkarama and Yemeni rights group HOOD named four victims of the strike as al Radami, al Imad, Magdishi and Mukram Ahmed al Daar, 20, father of one child. The groups investigated the strike – interviewing families of victims and eyewitnesses – and they published their findings in June 2013 and October 2013. They described al Radami as a former soldier and said all four men were civilians. Locals including the father of al Daar emphasized this during interviews, stating that neither al Daar nor the other victims were active AQAP members.
Mwatana also provided their own account of the incident, identifying three civilians as being killed when two missiles struck a car carrying them and Hamid Mohammed Radman al-Radami, who was rumored to have links with Al Qaeda. According to Mwatana, two of the civilians had hitched a ride in the car and the third was al-Radami’s driver.
The drone attack allegedly targeted the car of al Radami, at a point of not more than 300 meters from his house in the area of Mudhleb Mekhlaf Bani Al-Haddad, Wessab al Aali District.
Residents said they saw two drones overhead at the time of the strike and that a third drone flew in immediately after the attack. At least two separate missiles were fired on the vehicle. Another drone targeted and destroyed the house of al Radami. A witness named Salim, 28, one of al Radami’s companions, was on his motorcycle about a mile away when the attack occurred. He saw the missile shot towards the whereabouts of al Radami’s vehicle. He added: “There were two planes that followed, and a third plane flew over to watch the scene. There was about 8 minutes between the first and second strikes. The second was more violent, the ground shook and people panicked. My companion and I were the first to arrive on the scene. We saw the car on fire.”
In addition, locals who did not know al Radami allegedly had AQAP affiliations were angry that they were in close proximity to him and therefore at risk of being targeted by drones as well.
A few sources stated that al Imad was injured in the strike and died of his wounds because would-be rescuers were too afraid of a follow-up strike to come to his aid. A witness reported to Alkarama: “We saw the car on fire and heard the screams of Ghazi, one of the passengers. I got off the motorcycle to rescue him because he had been thrown several meters. When I approached, a plane flew lower and projected a red light on the ground as if to warn me it was about to launch a bomb. The people in front of me yelled, ‘The plane is coming down, run Salim!’ I left the area and rejoined the crowd. People were petrified with fear at the sight of the plane watching them from a low altitude. I still remember the cries of Ghazi who begged us for help, but we were unable to rescue him. For three hours, we waited for the plane to disappear so that we could rescue Ghazi.”
Associated Press reported four alleged AQAP militants were killed in the first strike on a vehicle and al Radami was killed in the second strike on his house. However, according to AFP all five were killed as they drove to al Radami’s house. A witness said drones were still in the sky over the village and that they had been there for three days.
Al Radami was alleged to be an influential Al Qaeda recruiter according to one unnamed intelligence official. He reportedly founded an AQAP cell in the area in 2011. An interior ministry official told Xinhua: ‘[The five] were all under surveillance since they left al Radami’s house a few minutes before the airstrike.’ The official said the strike ‘was a joint military operation between Yemeni, US and Saudi intelligence services.’ The area of Damar province where the strike hit was labeled Yemen’s Tora Bora by blogger and journalist Nasser Arrabyee. He said al Radami ‘was almost the absolute ruler of Wesab Aali and neighboring areas’. He enjoyed significant authority in the area, Arrabyee said: “He was not only a local commander of Al Qaeda; he was the police chief, the judge, the minister of water, education, health and everything else, for the people of Wessab.” According to one source, al Radami studied previously in Cuba and returned after graduation back to Yemen where he worked in the security apparatus in Sana’a and then traveled to Afghanistan before returning to Yemen and working again in the intelligence services.
A local security official who knew al Radami told Arrabyee: ‘We could have easily arrested him without a single shot, but no one told us to do so’ because Yemeni intelligence were afraid of Radami and his supporters. The government could have arrested al Radamii, Arrabyee wrote. They did not for fear of retaliation, not just from relatives ‘but also in fear of retaliation from other tribesmen’.
Journalist and activist Farea al Muslimi, a native of Wessab, contested the depiction of al Radami as an Al Qaeda commander, although he also reported the view that al Radami could easily have been arrested. Al Muslimi posted updates to Twitter from Sanaa as information came to him from friends and family in Wessab. And he said most people he spoke to said al Radami was not a part of AQAP.
“I was so happy the last three months that US Strike drones were stopped in #Yemen. Didn’t know they will relaunch to my village.!”
— Farea al Muslimi (@almuslimi) April 17, 2013
Writing in al Monitor, al Muslimi said al Radami had arrived in the village in 2011 with a group of people. He had allegedly served time in prison for murder. But the police told suspicious villagers they should not be concerned by his presence. He gained legitimacy and power with patronage from the local authorities and security services. Both al Radami and al Haj had reportedly served in the Yemeni army. Al Radami lived less than a kilometer from a ‘government headquarters’ and a couple of hours from Sanaa. He was reportedly traveling in convoy with the general secretary of the local council with the politician in the car behind al Radami’s when the strike hit.
Al Muslimi wrote: “In an area like Wessab, there is nothing easier than capturing a man like al Radami. Two police officers would have been more than capable of arresting him.”
The incident occured at 20:30:00 local time.
The victims were named as:
Hamid al Radami
40 years old
male
killed
Ghazi Hamoud al Imad
28 years old
male
killed
Ismael al Magdishi
29 years old
male
killed
Mukram Ahmed al Daar
20 years old
male
killed
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the Wessab al Ali District (وصاب العالي), for which the generic coordinates are: 14.333147, 43.819778. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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Alleged Al Qaeda leader, Hamid al Rademi, died in suspected U.S drone strikes on Wessab al Ali, Damar province, April 17th (via Human Rights Watch from Mareb Press)
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Madlab village, Dhamar - Skeleton of a car hit by an American drone on 17 April 2013. The car was carrying Hamid al-Radmi and four others. © Alkarama
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The grave of 21 year-old Makram Ahmed Mahmoud, who was killed in the April 17, 2013 attack in Wesab al-Aali. (Mwatana)
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Wreckage of the car attacked on April 17, 2013, in Wesab al-Aali, resulting in the deaths of three civilians. (Mwatana)
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Zainab Yahya Nasser al-Salf holds a photo of her son Hamid al-Radmi, an AQAP suspect and former military officer who was killed in a drone strike in Wessab on April 17, 2013. © 2013 Farea al-Muslimi for Human Rights Watch