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YEMEN: Defense officials say another U.S. militant killed

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Yemen’s Defense Ministry said Friday that another American militant linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula died in the air strike that killed U.S.-born cleric Anwar Awlaki, according to the Associated Press.

U.S. officials told AP they believed Samir Khan -- a U.S. citizen of Pakistani heritage who produced the English-language Al Qaeda web magazine Inspire, which provided instructions on staging attacks -- was in the convoy carrying Awlaki when it was struck Friday in the Marib region of northern Yemen. But they said they were still trying to confirm his death.

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The deaths would be the latest in a series of military operations worldwide that have targeted Al Qaeda leaders, including the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by U.S. forces in May.

U.S. officials have not said what role, if any, U.S. drones or missiles may have played in an attack.

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-- Alexandra Zavis in Los Angeles

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Alexandra Zavis

Alexandra Zavis is a former writer and editor on the Los Angeles Times’ Foreign Desk who has reported from more than 40 countries. She spent a decade with the Associated Press, covering Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other war-torn places. After joining The Times in 2006, she has served as a Baghdad correspondent and as a California reporter covering poverty and veterans issues. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs and was part of teams of reporters awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for foreign correspondence and APME’s International Perspective Award. She is a graduate of Oxford University and City University in London.

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