CIA to Launch Drone Strikes in Yemen

Yemen’s President Ali Saleh is out of the country, but unrest continues in Yemen. As the country continues to experience a leadership vacuum and violent unrest, the United States will launch covert drone strikes in the country to target al-Qaida militants. Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal intelligence correspondent reports that the Yemen program is modeled after the CIA’s covert program in Pakistan, which was secretly approved by President Obama last year.