The hunt is heating up for US-born terror suspect and cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In its strongest statement yet, a diplomat for the Yemen government told Fox News it considers Awlaki a \u201cfugitive\u201d and wants him for questioning regarding \u201crecent ties with Al Qaeda figures.\u201d<\/p>\n
The diplomat also told Fox Yemen Yemen is \u201caddressing the findings linking Awlaki\u201d to last year\u2019s\u00a0Fort Hood shootings and the Christmas bombing attempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is believed Awlaki is hiding in southern Yemen.<\/p>\n
The White House has reportedly signed off on a \u201ckill or capture \u201c order targeting Awlaki for his terror associations.<\/p>\n
A western diplomat in Sana\u2019a has revealed to Fox News Awlaki is now considered to be fully \u201coperational\u201d as a terrorist, and that he is involved in \u201cthe recruitment of volunteers, the conception of acts, and their implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Awlaki is thought to be, according to the diplomat, in the \u201cupper tier\u201d of Yemen\u2019s Al Qaeda chapter, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n
Now, it appears, both the US AND Yemen have put Awlaki in the \u201cupper tier\u201d of their “Most Wanted” lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The hunt is heating up for US-born terror suspect and cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.\u00a0 In its strongest statement yet, a diplomat for the Yemen government told Fox News it considers Awlaki a \u201cfugitive\u201d and wants him for questioning regarding \u201crecent ties with Al Qaeda figures.\u201d The diplomat also told Fox Yemen Yemen is \u201caddressing the findings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30Em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819118,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717486\/revisions\/819118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}