The uncertainty following the recent spate of airstrikes and attacks stems partly from the difficulty of media reporting in Yemen's remote areas, where reporters are at risk of being kidnapped or killed, and partly from the history of misinformation and disinformation that tends to thrive in Yemen . For example, several senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula figures have mistakenly been declared dead in past airstrikes, including the group's leader Nasir al-Wahayshi, their military commander Qasim al-Raymi and al-Asiri. Now, al-Asiri is again rumored to be dead. Some reports appear to validate suspicions that a high-value target was killed in the attacks, including those suggesting two victims were removed by helicopter from the site of their deaths. Neither the U.S. nor Yemeni authorities would go through that kind of trouble to recover the body of a low-level fighter for DNA testing and identification.