US drone victim was not a high-profile al Qaeda leader

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Yemeni and Saudi officials announced Wednesday that DNA tests had shown the corpse of an AQAP operative killed in a US drone strike on the night of April 20-21 was neither that of Nasir al Wuhayshi, AQAP's emir and al Qaeda general manager, nor Ibrahim al Asiri, known as AQAP's master bomb maker.

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