An anonymous Yemeni official claimed the Dec. 17 airstrike against an al Qaeda camp killed 49 civilians, including 23 children and 17 women. “Al Qaeda has chosen to build its training centre on land where bedouin nomads pitch their tents,” a tribal leader said. Yemeni officials claimed two Saudi al Qaeda fighters were killed and two Saudis, an Emirati, and a Pakistani escaped a police raid on a hospital.
