Al Qaeda infighting led to Awkali killing in Yemen. Ayman Zawhiri is in Yemen

DEBKAfile  "The tip-off which enabled two American drone-borne Hellfire missiles to kill the US-born Anwar al-Awkali by locating his convoy in the Khashef in the Jawf province of Yemen, 140 kilometers east of the capital Sanaa, reached US intelligence as a result of a power struggle within Al Qaeda's leadership in Yemen.

"Killed too was a second US-born al Qaeda operative. (Good grief, don't tell Ron Paul!)

DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources disclose that the internal strife which led to their deaths was sharpened by the recent arrival in Yemen of the new Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zuwahiri.

DEBKAfile exclusive.