Disclosure comes as architect of programme, John Brennan,
prepares for Senate confirmation hearing to become CIA director
"The CIA is secretly using an airbase in Saudi Arabia to conduct its controversial drone assassination campaign in neighbouring Yemen, according to reports in the US media.
Neither the Saudi
government nor the country's media have responded to the reports revealing that
the drones that killed the US-born
cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his son in September 2011 and Said al-Shehri, a
senior al-Qaida commander who died
from his injuries last month, were launched from the unnamed base.
Iranian state media highlighted the story, which is also likely to be seized upon by jihadi groups. Saudi Arabia has previously publicly denied co-operating with the US to target al-Qaida in Yemen. Evidence of Saudi involvement risks complicating its relationship with the government in Sana'a and with Yemeni tribal leaders who control large parts of the country......"
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