WASHINGTON — The same U.S. military unit that got Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen on Friday to kill an American-born cleric suspected of inspiring or helping plan numerous attacks on the United States, which included the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up a jetliner, U.S. and Yemeni officials said.
Al-Qaida's Anwar al-Awlaki killed in U.S. attack in Yemen
Friday, September 30, 2011 | 8:13 a.m. CDT;
updated 2:16 p.m. CDT, Friday, September 30, 2011
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