Awlaki is dead and so is Samir Khan.
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“Thread: Awlaki is dead...”
30 September 2011 07:13 #1
Aaron
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http://www.wbtv.com/story/15586296/former-charlotte-man-killed-in-yemin-drone-attack
“Former Charlotte man killed in Yemen drone attack”
Posted: Sep 30, 2011 6:28 AM PDT
Updated: Sep 30, 2011 8:03 AM PDT
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SNIPPET: “SANAA, Yemen (WBTV) - A Charlotte man who ran the al-Qaida newsletter from Yemen was killed in a drone attack that also took out a prominent cleric Friday.
Khan, from Charlotte, just published a new issue of al-Qaeda’s online magazine earlier this week. WBTV was the first to report about Khan in 2008 and at the time Khan began criticizing WBTV.
In addition to Khan, the U.S. airstrike Friday also killed American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Khan, who was 22-years-old in 2008, was of Pakistani heritage from Charlotte who produced “Inspire,” an English-language Web magazine which spread al-Qaida ideology and promoted attacks against U.S. targets, even running articles on how to put together explosives.
Khan was living in Yemen and his main article in the latest issue dealt with American media.
In an earlier issue, Khan wrote that he had moved to Yemen and joined al-Qaida’s fighters, pledging to “wage jihad for the rest of our lives.””
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/3209/breaking-news-awlaki-samir-khan-reportedly-dead
Breaking News: Awlaki, Samir Khan Reportedly Dead
IPT News
September 30, 2011
American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed Friday by a U.S. airstrike in Yemen, administration officials say.
Awlaki, 40, was among the terrorist group’s most charismatic figures, expanding al-Qaida’s violent theology to a new pool of potential recruits by speaking and writing in English. He also was tied to a series of attacks, including the Fort Hood massacre and the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009. An Associated Press dispatch calls the strike “the biggest U.S. success in hitting al-Qaida’s leadership since the May killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.”
He was the most visible figure in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an al-Qaida affiliate considered the most dangerous and capable of carrying out terrorist attacks.
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/yemen_claims_aqap_cl.php
“Yemen claims AQAP cleric Anwar al Awlaki ‘killed’ in airstrike”
By BILL ROGGIO
September 30, 2011
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2011/09/yemeni_jihadi_claims_anwar_al.php
“Yemeni jihadi claims Anwar al Awlaki, Samir Khar killed in US strike”
By BILL ROGGIO
September 30, 2011 1:32 PM
SNIPPET: “A poster at the al Qaeda-linked al-Fida’ forum who claims to be a Yemeni jihadi stated that American jihadists Anwar al Awlaki and Samir Khan, the editor of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire magazine, were indeed killed.”
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http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/209597.php
September 30, 2011
“**STICKY**
American Traitor Anwar al-Awlaki Killed in Yemen!
Upd: SAMIR KHAN, Threatened Rusty’s Family, Dead!
Obama Confirms, Awlaki DEAD
Now with More Cowbell, M.C. Hammer
Online Jihadis Confirm: Samir Khan Dead!”
twitter.com/#!/AP/status/119879780588994561
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AL_AWLAKI_MOSQUE?SITE=AP
Sep 30, 4:59 PM EDT
“Relief, anger at mosque where al-Awlaki preached”
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) —
SNIPPET: “Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center is among the largest and most influential mosques on the East Coast, but has been stung by its associations with al-Awlaki and other targets in the U.S. fight against terrorism. Two of the Sept. 11 hijackers worshipped there briefly when al-Awlaki was imam. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood, Texas shootings that left 13 dead in 2009, attended services there occasionally.”
SNIPPET: “The Sept. 11 hijackers who worshipped at Dar al-Hijrah, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, met al-Awlaki earlier in San Diego, where he was imam at al-Ribat al-Islami mosque.”
“It’s Not Just Newspapers: Circulation Tanks at Al-Qaeda’s Magazine, ‘Inspire’”
JUN 18 2012, 6:24 PM ET