 Reportedly, the U.S. nearly killed the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, with a Predator-launched Hellfire missile on the first night of Operation Enduring Freedom.In May 2002, the CIA launched a Hellfire missile from a Predator drone in an effort to kill the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.On November 3, 2002, a US Central Intelligence Agency-operated MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fired a Hellfire missile that destroyed a car carrying six suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen.