Obama: Awlaki Is Dead

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Anwar Al Awlaki is Dead

Washington, D.C. -- September 30, 2011 (Jummah) Speaking Friday morning at a ceremony marking a change in the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Obama called the death of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki a "major blow to al-Qaida's most active operational affiliate."

Al-Awlaki, a prominent figure in "said to have direct involvement in plots against the U.S., and Samir Khan, who edited a Jihadi Internet magazine, were killed early Friday in an attack on their convoy in Yemen by U.S. armed drones and fighter jets according to counterterrorism officials.

 


Watch Anwar al-Awlaki's interview with PBS & a sermon (khutbah) he gave in 2001, just after September 11, 2001 on Islam Newsroom [click here]

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