{"id":18065,"date":"2010-04-06T19:55:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T02:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=18065"},"modified":"2010-04-08T00:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T07:39:58","slug":"u-s-targets-american-born-cleric-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/u-s-targets-american-born-cleric-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Targets American-born Cleric in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16648\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/2010\/02\/25\/intelligence-may-target-u-s-born-muslim-cleric-in-yemen\/anwar-al-awlaki\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16648\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16648\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/anwar-al-awlaki-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"anwar al awlaki\" title=\"anwar-al-awlaki\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16648\" height=\"120\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/anwar-al-awlaki-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/anwar-al-awlaki.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anwar al-Awlaki<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Obama administration has authorized operations to capture or kill a U.S.-born Muslim cleric based in Yemen, who is described by a key lawmaker as Americas&#8217;s top terrorist threat, officials said on Tuesday.The decision to add Anwar al-Awlaki, of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to the target list followed a National Security Council review prompted by his status as a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Awlaki directly threatened the United States. &#8220;Awlaki is a proven threat,&#8221; said a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. &#8220;He&#8217;s being targeted.&#8221;Rep. Jane Harman, chairwoman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, described Awlaki as &#8220;probably the person, the terrorist, who would be terrorist No. 1 in terms of threat against us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/06\/AR2010040601572.html\">Read Full Article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/0a04d082-5753-428e-88ea-bd0af84d072c\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=0a04d082-5753-428e-88ea-bd0af84d072c\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration has authorized operations to capture or kill a U.S.-born Muslim cleric based in Yemen, who is described by a key lawmaker as Americas&#8217;s top terrorist threat, officials said on Tuesday.The decision to add Anwar al-Awlaki, of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to the target list followed a National Security Council review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,4718,2437,4720,4240,5894,5314,27,30,1015,1962,274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18065"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18115,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065\/revisions\/18115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}