By Daily Mail Reporter and Reuters Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:04 EST, 25 April 2012 | UPDATED: 04:41 EST, 25 April 2012 A top member of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was killed in an air strike over the weekend, the Yemeni Embassy confirmed Tuesday. U.S. officials say the strike was conducted by the CIA and killed Mohammed Al-Umda on Sunday. The drone targeted the prominent Al-Qaeda leader while he was riding in his SUV. Killed: Wanted Al-Qaeda leader Mohammed Saeed al-Umda was killed by a CIA-operated Predator drone like this one (file photo) Meeting: Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi, right, talked with the director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, left, during a meeting in Yemen Tuesday in which Mr Mueller pledged support against Islamist insurgency
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Mohammed Al-Umda, trained by Bin Laden, was killed in weekend strike
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FBI chief vows to help crush insurgency and spoke with Yemen's president
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Yemen President Hadi says he's committed to working with U.S.
In a meeting with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who took office earlier this year, @placeholder promised the United States would support Yemen 'with full force' in all respects.