 Al-Wa'eli was killed on 3 June 2011 by a US drone strike in Yemen.AQAP confirmed his death one month later.On February 11, 2002, Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli was named in a suspected Yemen plot, for which he was among 17 suspected terrorists added to the FBI's third major "wanted" list, the "Seeking Information" list.