Yemen-based terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki put on US kill-or-capture list
April 8th, 2010 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANIWashington, Apr.8 (ANI): Yemeni terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki is thought to be plotting attacks on the US, and keeping this threat in mind, the Obama administration has put him on the kill-or-capture list, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Anwar al-Awlaki, a former US resident living in Yemen and an accused Al Qaeda supporter, has said on his website that the attack at Fort Hood in Texas, perpetrated by alleged gunman Major Nidal Hasan, was a ‘heroic act.’
The Obama administration says it will use lethal force against Anwar al-Awlaki.
A report Wednesday in The New York Times indicated that what triggered US officials putting the Muslim cleric on the kill-or-capture list was their determination that he was not only inciting attacks against the US, but also “participating” in them.
“Awlaki is a proven threat. He’s being targeted,” said a US official.
Rep. Jane Harman (D) of California, who chairs the homeland security subcommittee on intelligence, calls Awlaki “probably the person, the terrorist, who would be terrorist No. 1 in terms of threat against us.”
“He is very much in the sights of the Yemenis, with us helping them,” Harman said at a recent panel discussion in Washington. (ANI)
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