Anwar al Awlaki Live Blog

18 weeks 19 hours ago - Yemen

Yemeni  fighters who seized a small town southeast of the capital Sanaa this week have said they will withdraw if several of their colleagues are released from jail.

Tribesmen negotiating with the group on behalf of the government said the fighters, who took over Radda, about 170km southeast of Sanaa, agreed to leave if their leader’s brother and several others were freed.

Tareq al-Dahab, the fighters' chief, is related to Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen whom Washington accused of a leadership role in the Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda, and who was assassinated in a drone strike last year.

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22 weeks 2 days ago - Yemen

Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born al-Qaeda spiritual leader killed in a CIA drone strike in September, posthumously called on US Muslims to join the group in the Middle East in a video released on Tuesday.

Identified by US intelligence as "chief of external operations" for al Qaeda's Yemeni branch and a
Web-savvy publicist for the cause, Awlaki was killed in a remote Yemeni town by missiles fired from multiple CIA drones.

"You have two choices: either hijra [emigration] or jihad," Awlaki said in the video, which was posted on
Islamist websites.
 
"I specifically invite the youth to either fight in the West or join their brothers in the fronts of jihad: Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.

"I invite them to join us in our new front, Yemen, the base from which the great jihad of the Arabian Peninsula will begin, the base from which the greatest army of Islam will march forth," said Awlaki, a cleric of Yemeni descent, speaking in English. [Reuters]

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33 weeks 3 days ago - Yemen

The US expects Yemen to co-operate with more counterterrorism operations like the one that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, regardless of the political fate of the country's president, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday.

"There are a lot of people in the leadership there concerned about Awlaki, concerned about terrorism," Panetta told reporters on Sunday.

"We have developed over the years a relationship where we worked together, we shared intelligence, and we focused on some common targets there as well.

"And I think that will continue to be the case regardless of what ultimately happens with president Saleh". [AFP]

 

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33 weeks 4 days ago - Yemen

The United States showed a lack of respect for democracy and its partners in fighting terrorism by renewing its call for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, a Yemeni official said on Saturday.

Washington made its call for Saleh to resign on the day it announced that a CIA drone strike had killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric regarded as one of al Qaeda's most eloquent English propagandists, in Yemen's northern al-Jawf province.

On Friday, the White House said Awlaki's killing had not altered its demand that Saleh sign a plan under which he would hand over power. Reuters

After this big victory in catching Awlaki, the White House calls on the president to leave power immediately? The Americans don't even respect those who cooperate with them.  Yemen's deputy information minister Abdu al-Janadi.

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33 weeks 5 days ago - Yemen

US State Department has issued a new travel warning for Yemen, in light of the death of Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born cleric.

A department warning issued Saturday said the death would provide motivation for individuals or groups to retaliate against US citizens or American interests.

It noted that Awlaki and other members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula previously called for attacks against the US, and the warning says his supporters could seek to avenge his death.

 

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33 weeks 5 days ago - Yemen

 

United States President Barack Obama has called the killing of Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki a "major blow to al-Qaeda's most active operational affiliate" but offered no apologies for the unprecedented manner in which he was killed.

"We will be determined, we will be deliberate, we will be relentless, we will be resolute in our commitment to destroy terrorist networks that aim to kill Americans," Obama told reporters in Washington.

But the controversial killing by armed drones on Friday steers the Obama administration into uncharted waters regarding the targeting and killing of US citizens deemed enemies of the state.Click here to read the full article...

 

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