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{{Infobox person
|name = Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi
|birth_date =
|death_date = {{death date|2002|11|03}}
|death_place = Sana'a, [[Yemen]]
|occupation = Terrorist
|nationality = [[Yemen]]i
|module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes
|allegiance = {{flagicon image|Flag of al-Qaeda.svg|size=23px}} Al-Qaeda
|branch = {{flagicon image|Flag of al-Qaeda.svg|size=23px}} Islamic Jihad in Yemen <br /> <small>(?-2002)</small>
|serviceyears = ?-2002
|rank = Leader and planner in Yemen
}}
}}
'''Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi''', also known as '''Abu Ali al-Harithi''' ({{lang-ar|أبو علي الحارثي}}) (died November 3, 2002) was an al-Qaeda operative and a citizen of [[Yemen]] who is suspected of having been involved in the October 2000 USS Cole bombing, and the October Limburg attack.

He was killed by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] during a covert targeted killing mission in [[Yemen]] on November 3, 2002. The CIA used a Predator drone to shoot the Hellfire missile that killed al-Harithi and five other al-Qaeda operatives as they rode in a vehicle {{convert|100|mi|km}} east of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. It was the first known drone strike outside of Afghanistan.

Al-Harithi was traveling with [[Kamal Derwish]] (Ahmed Hijazi), a US citizen, and Derwish's killing was the first known case of the U.S. government killing a U.S. citizen during the "War on Terror".

The [[George W. Bush]] administration, citing the authority of a presidential finding that permitted worldwide covert actions against Osama bin Laden's network, considered al-Harethi and his traveling party a justifiable military target. Nonetheless, the targeted killing of al-Harethi was the subject of debate on its legality.

==See also==
* CIA activities in Yemen

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120207125841/http://www.kuow.org/mp3high/m3u/WeekdayA/weekdaya20070223.m3u Steve Scher on Weekday February 23, 2007] KUOW-FM interviews James Bamford on the [[National Security Agency]] (Note: minutes 21–24 of 54 minute audio)

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