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Yemeni-American trained American jihadis could attack US: Experts | Experts have warned that American jihadis trained by radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, could attack the United States sooner than later. Counter-terror chiefs
told senators on Tuesday an attempted strike by terrorists within six months is
"certain." "There was nothing specific any of them were alluding to," a senior
counter-terror official told The News, adding "But we certainly have indications
that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has a variety of plans to strike the United
States." According to the New York Daily News, al-Awlaki is now on a targeting
list signed off on by the Obama administration. Asked by Rep. Pete Hoekstra
(R-Mich.)
Wednesday about the "hypothetical" targeted killing of an American "cleric"
overseas,
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair explained why they'd draw a bull's-eye
on someone like Awlaki. "We don't target people for free speech. We target them
for taking action that threatens Americans," Blair told the House Intelligence
Committee. "If we think direct action will involve killing an American, we get
specific permission to do that," Blair added. Awlaki befriended several 9/11
hijackers
while an imam at mosques in San Diego and Washington's Virginia suburbs. From
Yemen, he traded e-mails with the Fort Hood mass killer, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal
Malik Hasan, and with Nigerian rich kid Abdulmutallab, whom he also likely met
with, according to the sources. "We don't know how many additional Americans he's
gotten to," the senior official said of Awlaki, who escaped a Dec. 24 U.S. air
strike aimed at Al Qaeda in Arabia leaders. Awlaki told Al Jazeera on Wednesday
that Abdulmutallab was his "student" but he didn't give him a fatwa - a religious
order - to bomb a U.S.-bound jetliner. He did allow that he's looking over his
shoulder due to his unapologetic ties to the other killers. |
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