'I'm Alive,' Says Yemen Radical Anwar Awlaki Despite U.S. Attack

abc ^ | 12/31/2009 | NASSER ATTA, BRIAN ROSS and MATTHEW COLE

[tobyhill]

A week after U.S. and Yemeni officials said the radical Yemen cleric Anwar Awlaki may have been killed in a U.S.-backed Christmas eve air strike, a Yemeni journalist says Awlaki has surfaced to proclaim, "I'm alive."

"He said the house that was attacked was two or three kilometers away from him and he was not there," the journalist, Abdulelah Hider Shaea, told ABC News. He said he talked to Awlaki on the phone and recognized his voice from previous interviews.

One week ago, officials said the Christmas Eve attack had targeted a suspected meeting of al Qaeda leaders in Rafd, a mountain valley in eastern Shabwa province.

[Allegra]

a Yemeni journalist says Awlaki has surfaced to proclaim, "I'm alive."

Yeah, Zarqawi said that a couple of times, too, terrorist scum.

Your time is coming. You're on the radar now. We may have a Marxist wuss as a leader, but our military is still in pretty good form.

Make your time now, RotScum.

[Global2010]

Terrorist Cleric Muslims remind me of the chronic infestation of Moles we have had up in our area this year.

And no one seems to agree on how to get rid of them.

[Global2010]

Or the French will get em! ;)

[tobyhill]

I don't think Obama really wants him dead. Obama probably thinks he's a perfect candidate for “reform” and that if he can draw him to our side the terrorist would suddenly turn a new leaf.

[mazda77]

This must have been the scenario that spawned the “Whack-A-Mole” game now so famous at your local Chuck-E-Cheese. We drop a bomb to get their attention and make an unfounded comment that we might have gotten him, This arrogant little twit gets full of himself and pops out of his hole to blow raspberries at us.

Keep it up Einstein, we are watching and listening. And don’t worry about that bomb vest you didn’t pick up, the hellfire comin’ at ya has plenty of extra to make up for it.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I think she’s dead...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1knR3X_Luo

[Montfort]

Of course, when our forces get this guy, he will make sure he is at a wedding, or at a school, or closely surrounded by his wife and kids and any other "civilians" who can serve as human shields.

[Russ]

These scum are like vampires. The only way to kill them is drive a stake through their heart. It’s obvious that they are inhuman.

[rightwingcrazy]

OK, he says he’s alive, but how can we be sure he’s telling the truth?