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Anwar al Awlaki, the U.S.-born cleric dubbed “Terrorist Number One” was reportedly killed Friday by an air strike in the mountains of Yemen.
A statement emailed from Yemen’s Washington embassy announced his death under with the subject line: “Breaking News: Awlaki Dead.”
The 40-year-old cleric was killed in the town of Kashef in Yemen’s north Jawf province, about 140 kilometres east of the capital Sanaa, according to the statement.
The news was at first greeted with skepticism as reports of the deaths of members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) are often false.
But unnamed U.S. government sources also confirmed the death to various American media outlets. A Yemeni security source told the Washington Post that Awlaki (sometimes spelled Aulaqi), was killed by an unmanned American drone.
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Anwar al Awlaki, the U.S.-born cleric dubbed “Terrorist Number One” was reportedly killed Friday by an air strike in the mountains of Yemen.
A statement emailed from Yemen’s Washington embassy announced his death under with the subject line: “Breaking News: Awlaki Dead.”
The 40-year-old cleric was killed in the town of Kashef in Yemen’s north Jawf province, about 140 kilometres east of the capital Sanaa, according to the statement.
The news was at first greeted with skepticism as reports of the deaths of members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) are often false.
But unnamed U.S. government sources also confirmed the death to various American media outlets. A Yemeni security source told the Washington Post that Awlaki (sometimes spelled Aulaqi), was killed by an unmanned American drone.
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