JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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UPDATE-JAN 09,2015-06:15PM
THE BROTHERS HAD A ROCKET PROPEL GRENAIDE,MULTITUDES OF AUTOMATIC AND OTHER FIREARMS ON THEM IN THE PRINTING BUILDING.AND THE 3RD TERRORIST AT THE KOSHER MARKET.ALSO HAD NUMEROUS AUTOMATIC GUNS AND OTHER GUNS IN THEIR POSSESION. AND I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE 500 PHONE CALLS BY THE WIVES OF THE BROTHERS.IT WAS IN ALL OF 2014.THEY PHONED EACH OTHER.AND THEY DONE THIS BECAUSE THE BROTHERS KNEW THEIR PHONES WERE TAPED.BUT THEY THOUGHT THE WIVES PHONES WOULD NOT BE TAPED.BUT THEY WERE.AND A TOTAL OF 500 WERE PHONED FROM WIVE TO WIFE IN ALL OF 2014.HAYAD.THE ONLY ALIVE TERRORIST IS 26 YEARS OLD. HAYAD AND COULIBALY WERE GOING TOGETHER SINCE 2010.AND HAYAD WILL PROBABLY HIDE OUT WITH OTHER TERRORISTS IN ONE OF THE 751 NO-GO ZONES IN THE MUSLIM DISTRICT OF FRANCE.WERE NO POLICE WILL EVEN GO NEAR BECAUSE OF ALL THE VIOLENCE IN THESE NO-GO ZONES IN AND AROUND FRANCE.
UPDATE-JAN 09,2015-06:00PM
NOW WE FIND OUT.15 STICKS OF DYNAMITE WERE DISCOVERED BY POLICE IN THE KOSHER STORE HOSTAGE TAKING.AND ALSO.500 PHONE CALLS WERE PLACED BETWEEN THE WIVES OF THE KILLED BROTHERS.DURING THE HOSTAGE TAKING EVENT THIS AFTERNOON.SO OVIOUSLY ALL THE WIVES ARE INVOLVED IN THIS PLOT ALSO.THAT REALLY MAKES.THE GIRL FRIEND OF THE KILLED TERRORIST.AT THE KOSHER SHOP AND THE 2 WIVES OF THE KILLED TERRORIST BROTHERS. ALL INVOLVED IN THE TERRORIST ATTACK YET.SO 3 TERRORIST WOMEN ARE ON THE LOOSE YET.
UPDATE-JAN 09,2015-05:30PM (QUICK RECAP LAST 2 DAYS HAPPENINGS)
AROUND 8PM LAST NIGHT THE POLICE OFFICER WAS KILLED BY THE 2 NON BROTHER TERRORISTS.AND OVIOUSLY THE GUY AND HIS GIRLFRIEND BOUMED DIENE ESCAPED.FROM THE POLICE KILLING SCENE YESTERDAY.THEN TODAY THE BROTHERS WERE KILLED IN A FORCED SUICIDE.AS THEY RUSHED POLICE FROM THE PRINTING SHOP THEY WERE HELD UP IN.AND SINCE THEY WANTED TO BE MARTYRS.THATS WHAT THEY WERE.THEY RAN AT THE POLICE .AND THE POLICE KILLED THEM ON THE SPOT.THEN ALSO TODAY.AT AN ISRAELI KOSHER GROCEY EAST OF PARIS.A SECOND HOSTAGE SITUATION WAS BEING COMMITED. THE 3RD TERRORIST.AMEDY COULIBALY AND HIS GIRL FRIEND WENT IN THE KOSHER GROCERY.AND INSTANTLY SHOT 4 ISRAELI HOSTAGES TO DEATH. ABOUT AN HOUR OR 2 LATER.THE POLICE RAIDED THE KOSHER STORE. AND KILLED COULIBALY. WHILE HIS GIRL FRIEND ESCAPED THE SCENE.I STILL NEVER HEARD HOW MANY WERE INJURED AT THE KOSHER STORE YET.BUT REPORTS SAID.AT LEAST 6 AMBULENCES WENT TO THE SCENE. AFTER THE RAID OCCURED. SO THE ONLY TERRORIST ON THE LOOSE NOW.IS HAYAD BOUMED DIENE.THE GIRL FRIEND OF THE DEAD TERRORIST THAT KILLED 4 AT THE KOSHER STORE AND 1 POLICE OFFICER.SO 5 KILLED BY THE COULIBALY-BOUMED DIENE PAIR OF TERRORISTS. AND 12 KILLED.11 INJURED,4 SERIOUSLY BY THE KOUACHI TERRORIST BROTHERS. A TOTAL OF 17 INNOCENT CITIZENS KILLED BY THESE 4 ISLAMIC-RADICAL-SHARIA-72 VIRGIN.SEX FOR MURDER ALLAH-AK- BAR, MOON GOD ALLAH.AND PEDOPHILE PROPHET MOHAMMID MUSLIM CULT KILLERS.WITH THE 3 DEAD TERRORISTS.A TOTAL OF 20 DIED IN THE LAST 3 DAYS. AND AL-QUIDA IN YEMEN IS CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACTION OF THESE 4 TERRORIST KILLERS OF THE DEATH CULT-ISLAMIC-QUARANIC-SHARIA MUSLIM CULTOF ISLAM.
UPDATE-JAN 09,2015-03:00PM
THE MEDIA IS NOW SAYING THAT THE KOSHER MARKET HOSTAGE KILLINGS WERE AN ANTI-SEMETIC ACT AGAINST JEWS.NOT A MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK. HERE WE GO WITH THE ISLAM SUCKUP AGAIN.TRYING TO SAY THESE MURDERS WERE ANTI-SEMETIC INSTEAD OF ISLAMIC RADICAL MUSLIM LUNATICS.I SAY THEY WERE BOTH.THEY WERE ANTI-SEMETIC AND ISLAMIC RADICAL MURDER ERS. ISLAM AND ISRAEL HATE GOES HAND IN HAND.THATS WHY ISLAM HAS TO BE FINISHED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.A TV STATION PHONED TO THE PRINTING SHOP WERE THE 2 BROTHERS WERE HOLDING THE HOSTAGES.ONE OF THE BROTHERS ANSWERED THE PHONE.AND TOLD THE TV STATION.HE WAS PAID BY AL-AWLAKI IN YEMEN TO KILL IN FRANCE TO AVENGE AL-AWLAKI'S MURDER IN 2011.AND NOW WE FIND OUT BOTH BROTHERS WERE IN SYRIA TRAINING EARLIER THIS YEAR.A man claiming to be Charlie Hebdo attack suspect Cherif Kouachi called CNN affiliate BFMTV on Friday and said that he trained in Yemen with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and that he met with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Muslim who was the face of AQAP until he was killed in the fall of 2011 in a U.S. drone strike.WE KNOW 4 HOSTAGES WERE KILLED AT THE KOSHER STORE.WE JUST GOTTA FIND OUT THE INJURIES YET.THE 4 MURDERERS KILLED A TOTAL OF 17 PEOPLE OVER A 3 DAY SPAN.
France: Raids kill 3 suspects, including 2 wanted in Charlie Hebdo attack-By Greg Botelho, Ben Brumfield and Jim Sciutto, CNN-Updated 1926 GMT (0326 HKT) January 9, 2015
Paris (CNN)A pair of dramatic raids Friday in France led to the killing of three terrorists -- one suspected in the fatal shooting of a policewoman, the other two in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine -- and to the freeing of at least some of those they were holding hostage.
The French government's work is not over. There's still a lot of healing to do, a lot of questions to answer about how to prevent future attacks, and the fact that a woman wanted in the policewoman's shooting remains at large.
• Four people were killed in the standoff at the market near Porte de Vincennes, French President Francois Hollande said.
• He called the attack on the kosher market an "anti-Semitic" act.
• "Unity is our best weapon," the President said, noting that "France is not done with threats that are targeting" the country.
• "Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion," Hollande added.
• Said Kouachi spent several months in Yemen in 2011, receiving weapons training and working with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based there, U.S. officials said Friday.
• Hollande held a crisis meeting Friday afternoon with senior Cabinet members at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Those in attendance included Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Cazeneuve and Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, according to the French presidency.
STANDOFF IN DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE
• A man claiming to be Charlie Hebdo attack suspect Cherif Kouachi called CNN affiliate BFMTV on Friday and said that he trained in Yemen with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and that he met with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Muslim who was the face of AQAP until he was killed in the fall of 2011 in a U.S. drone strike.
• Dammartin-en-Goele Mayor Michel Dutruge told France Info radio that he is breathing "a big sigh of relief" after the conclusion of the standoff in his village.
• The male hostage who was being held by brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi inside a printing business in the town is safe, Othis Mayor Bernard Corneille said.
• The brothers were killed in an operation by security forces, Corneille said. French media also reported their deaths, citing police sources.
• Four helicopters, including a medical helicopter, landed at a site near where the operation took place.
• Men were on the roof of the building where the Kouachi brothers -- both suspects in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo -- were believed to be, images from CNN affiliate BFMTV showed. Smoke could be seen rising from the building.
• A helicopter landed next to the building.
• Shots were heard shortly before 5 p.m. around the industrial area where the brothers were surrounded by law enforcement. At least large explosions were also heard.
Manhunt for terror suspects
• Yves Albarello, who is in France's parliament, said on French channel iTele that the two suspects told police by phone that they wanted to die as martyrs.
• A salesman, who identified himself only as Didier, told France Info radio that he shook one of the gunman's hands around 8:30 a.m. Friday as they arrived at a Dammartin-en-Goele printing business -- the same place where the Kouachi brothers were. Didier told the public radio station that he first thought the man, who was dressed in black and heavily armed, was a police officer.As he left, the armed man said, "Go, we don't kill civilians," Didier said. "It wasn't normal. I did not know what was going on."
• Dammartin-en-Goele residents were told to stay inside, and schools were put on lockdown, the mayor's media office told CNN on Friday. Shops in the town have been told to close.
GROCERY STORE HOSTAGE SITUATION
• Like Cherif Kouachi, a man claiming to be slain hostage-taking suspect Amedy Coulibaly called BFMTV on Friday.
• Cazeneuve, the interior minister, wouldn't comment on the number of people injured or dead in either of the operations conducted Friday. Earlier, French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud tweeted that the hostages in the grocery store siege were alive, but French police and Interior Ministry officials did not comment on the state of the hostages.
• Coulibaly, who goes by the alias Doly Gringy, was a close associate of Cherif Kouachi, a Western intelligence source told CNN. The two were involved in a 2010 attempt to free an Algerian serving time for a 1995 subway bombing.
French police escort hostages away from a kosher grocery store in the Paris neighborhood of Porte de Vincennes on Friday, January 9. The hostage-taker was killed during a police operation, police union spokesman Pascal Disand said.
• Hayat Boumeddiene, the 26-year-old woman wanted in Thursday's fatal shooting of a policewoman outside Paris, escaped Friday from the grocery store in the confusion as hostages ran away, Alliance Police Union spokesman Pascal Disand said. She'd been in the market with Coulibaly, the other suspect in Thursday's deadly incident. The FBI also said that French police were trying to find Boumeddiene.
• Some police were injured in the operation at the eastern Paris kosher grocery store, according to Disand. At least 10 hostages escaped, and Coulibaly was killed, according to the union spokesman.
• The hostages held at the market near Porte de Vincennes are alive, and "the terrorist is dead," Gerard Araud tweeted.
• Police at the scene of the grocery store siege shouted "get down!" and "we've got him," video from CNN affiliate BFMTV showed.
• Police could be seen leaving the eastern Paris grocery store, where hostages were being held, with people late Friday afternoon.
• Large explosions could be heart around 5:10 p.m. (11:10 a.m. ET) Friday near the store.
• The hostage-taker there demanded freedom for the Kouachi brothers, witnesses said, according to Disand.
• Dozens of schools were placed under lockdown because of the hostage situation in eastern Paris, police said.
• Police anti-terror units raced to the scene of the hostage situation early Friday afternoon, while ambulances blared as they moved away from it. Roads around the area have been blocked off.
Father: 'It's like a war'
Henri Dunant elementary school should be a place to learn, to play, to be a kid.Not to hide in fear of killers on the loose. But that's what students did for hours Friday, there and at many other schools around Dammartin-en-Goele.By late Friday afternoon, some of them were finally allowed to leave, though they weren't alone. Police officers accompanied the children -- holding their hands as they guided and, in some cases, lifted them onto an awaiting bus that would take them to safety.
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The Interior Ministry reported the schoolchildren were being evacuated to sports facilities in nearby Mitry-Mory.One father, who lives across the street from a school and asked to be identified only as Teddy, described the situation as "very worrying.""It's like a war," he said. "I don't know how I will explain this to my 5-year-old son."
Parts of France on high alert
This "war" erupted two days ago, when a pair of heavily armed men -- hooded and dressed in black -- entered the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine known for its provocative, often profane, sometimes controversial take on religion, politics and most anything else.
Satirical magazine is no stranger to controversy
They burst into a meeting, called out individuals, and then executed them. The dead included editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier and four other well-known cartoonists known by the pen names: Cabu, Wolinski, Honore and Tignous.Authorities followed a lead Thursday morning from a gas station attendant near Villers-Cotterets, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Dammartin-en-Goele, whom Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, reportedly threatened as they stole food and gas. Police think the brothers may have later fled on foot into nearby woodlands.Northern France's Picardy region was the focal point of the manhunt, and Prime Minister Valls put it on the same, highest-possible alert level as has been in place since Wednesday in and around Paris.And police spying down with night vision optics from helicopters said they thought they caught a glimpse of them Thursday near Crepy-en-Valois, France -- not far from the reported robbery.That town and the gas station border a patch of woods, and on another side of the forest, 30 to 40 police vehicles swarmed out from the town of Longpont.Squads of officers armed with rifles -- some also in helmets and with shields -- canvassed fields and forest.They didn't find the Kouachi brothers there. Instead, somehow, they moved to Dammartin-en-Goele.
Ties to Islamist extremists
As these two moved, the French government -- including more than 80,000 police deployed across the country -- also didn't stand still.Some of them tried to prevent more bloodshed, which might have something to do with the nine detained after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Investigators also dug to learn about the attackers.
Who are the suspects?
Both men had ties to Islamist extremists.Said, the elder of the Kouachi brothers, spent several months in Yemen in 2011, receiving weapons training and working with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to U.S. officials.His younger brother, Cherif, has a long history of jihad and anti-Semitism, according to documents obtained by CNN. In a 400-page court record, he is described as wanting to go to Iraq through Syria "to go and combat the Americans.""I was ready to go and die in battle," he said in a deposition. "... I got this idea when I saw the injustices shown by television. ... I am speaking about the torture that the Americans have inflicted on the Iraqis."And Cherif is a close associate of Coulibaly, the suspect in Thursday's police shooting in Montrouge and the man behind the eastern Paris grocery store siege, a Western intelligence source told CNN.Both men were involved in a 2010 attempt to free an Algerian incarcerated for a 1995 subway bombing. Coulibaly was arrested with 240 rounds of ammunition for a Kalashnikov rifle and a photo of Djamel Beghal, a French Algerian once known as al Qaeda's premier European recruiter.The Western intelligence source said that Coulibaly lived with Boumeddiene, his alleged accomplice in the police shooting, and that the two traveled to Malaysia together.
Charlie Hebdo columnist: 'They didn't want us to be quiet'-Boumeddiene is the only of the four main suspects in this week's incidents who is still alive.France, as a nation, appears to be invigorated by all of it -- joined by others worldwide who've rallied around the country and, especially, Charlie Hebdo magazine.A unity rally will be held Sunday "celebrating the values behind" Charlie Hebdo, said British Prime Minister David Cameron, who will travel to Paris to attend.And the magazine itself -- whose former offices were firebombed in 2011, on the day it was to publish an issue poking fun at Islamic law and after it published a cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed -- will go on as well, even without its leader and most talented staffers. It's set to publish thousands of copies of its latest edition next Wednesday.Patrick Pelloux, a columnist for the magazine, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that "I don't know if I'm afraid anymore, because I've seen fear. I was scared for my friends, and they are dead."Instead, he and many others are defiant."I know that they didn't want us to be quiet," Pelloux said of the slain Charlie Hebdo staffers. "They wanted us to continue to fight for these values, cultural pluralism, democracy and secularism, the respect of others. They would be assassinated twice, if we remained silent."CNN's Jim Sciutto reported from France, Ben Brumfield and Greg Botelho wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Atika Shubert, Laura Smith-Spark, Richard Greene, Fred Pleitgen, Christiane Amanpour, Jim Bittermann and Bryony Jones contributed to this report.
Charlie Hebdo suspects shot dead in assault-UPDATED: 10 Jan 2015 01:19-CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
DAMMARTIN-EN-GOËLE, France: Elite French police stormed a printworks and a Jewish supermarket Friday (Jan 9), killing two brothers wanted for the Charlie Hebdo attack and an apparent accomplice who had taken hostages in two separate sieges that traumatised France.Explosions rocked a small printing firm in the village of Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, and smoke poured from the building as the heavily armed forces mounted their assault as night fell.The two Islamists launched a desperate escape bid, charging out of the building firing at the security forces before being cut down in their tracks, a security source said.Meanwhile, in the east of Paris, gunfire erupted as police stormed the Jewish store, where at least one armed assailant had seized five hostages after two people were killed in a gun battle. The gunman was also killed, security sources said, as terrified hostages were seen running out of the store.The dramatic climax to the two stand-offs brought to an end more than 48 hours of fear and uncertainty in the country that began when the two brothers slaughtered 12 people at Charlie Hebdo in the bloodiest attack on French soil in half a century.The hostage-taker in the eastern Porte de Vincennes area of Paris was suspected of gunning down a policewoman in southern Paris Thursday and knew at least one of the Charlie Hebdo gunmen. French police released mugshots of the man, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, as well as a woman named as 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, also wanted over the shooting of the policewoman.The Porte de Vincennes area in eastern Paris was swamped with police who shut down the city's ringroad as well as schools and shops in the area.- AFP/rw
Officials: U.S. may face retaliation for Al-Awlaki death-Airstrike kills Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen-Published 1:56 AM CDT Oct 01, 2011
The killings Friday of alleged terrorists cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and computer expert Samir Khan could spark retaliatory attacks against the United States, according to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.The agencies issued a joint intelligence bulletin late Friday that said supporters might seek to portray al-Awlaki as a martyr in a supposed U.S. war against Islam. It says the deaths "could provide motivation for homeland attacks" by "homegrown violent extremists," the type the two men allegedly tried to recruit or inspire.The bulletin came less than a day after U.S. and Yemeni government officials announced that al-Awlaki -- an American whose fluency with English and technology made him a top terrorist recruiter -- was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen."It was a joint U.S. military-intelligence operation," a U.S. official said, adding that the U.S. military helped target al-Awlaki and that manned American military aircraft were flying overhead ready to offer assistance. The drone was operated by the CIA, officials said.The strike also killed Khan, an American, and two others who were in the same vehicle as al-Awlaki, said another U.S. official who was briefed by the CIA. Khan specialized in computer programming for al-Qaida and produced the terrorist network's English-language online magazine, Inspire.The CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command had al-Awlaki under surveillance for at least two weeks, but were awaiting an opportunity to kill him without causing civilian casualties or damage, an administration official said. CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) personnel and assets, including drones, were used to track him and to assess how to target him. JSOC, which commands the clandestine U.S. military units, "played a key role in developing the targeting information."The source said U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jets were flying overhead to provide backup firepower if needed. In addition, troops from the JSOC units were on standby to board V-22 helicopters in the region to rescue potential downed pilots or to conduct operations on the ground if needed. But the only ordnance used came from the drone, the official said.The official also said the mission, codenamed Operation Troy, was similar to the one in May that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in that it was commanded by the CIA, with close coordination with JSOC.U.S. President Barack Obama called al-Awlaki's death a "major blow" to al-Qaida, reeling still from the killing and capture this year of several top leaders, most notably bin Laden."His hateful ideology and targeting of innocent civilians has been rejected by the vast majority of Muslims and people of all faiths and he has met his demise because the government and the people of Yemen have joined the international community in a common effort against al-Qaida," Obama said.He said al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, remains a dangerous but weakened organization. "Working with Yemen and our other allies and partners, we will be determined, we will be deliberate, we will be relentless, we will be resolute in our commitment to destroy terrorist networks that aim to kill Americans," Obama said.A Yemeni government official told CNN that the killing was the result of a "successful joint intelligence-sharing operation" between Yemen and the United States. The official asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the news media."This country is much safer as a result of the loss of Awlaki," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters in Washington. "As far as the operational elements, I'm not going to speak to those except to say that we've been working with the Yemenis over a long period of time to be able to target Awlaki."Citing bin Laden's killing in May, Panetta added, "This has been a bad year for terrorists." He said he wanted to congratulate the Yemenis "on their efforts, their intelligence assistance, their operational assistance to get this job done." The U.S.-Yemeni effort in pursuing al-Awlaki "was something that involved a tremendous amount of cooperation between the United States and the Yemenis, and today it paid off," he added.The United States regarded al-Awlaki, the public face of AQAP, as a terrorist who posed a threat to American homeland security. Western intelligence officials said they believe al-Awlaki was a senior leader of AQAP, one of the world's most active al-Qaida affiliates. It has been linked to the attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit in December 2009 and a cargo plane plot last year.
"Anwar al-Awlaki didn't need subtitles to indoctrinate," said Sajjan Gohel of the Asia Pacific Foundation, who called al-Awlaki's death significant. "He spoke English, he understood how to impact the Muslim diaspora in the West."Al-Awlaki was killed about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the Yemeni town of Khashef, east of the capital, Sanaa, said Mohammed Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington. He said the operation was launched at 9:55 a.m.The Yemeni government official said Yemeni intelligence had recently located al-Awlaki's hideout in a house in Khashef, in Jawf province, which borders Saudi Arabia. Tribesmen from neighboring Marib province told CNN that they witnessed an attack Friday and that five people who died were burned beyond recognition, raising questions about how al-Awlaki's body had been identified. The tribesmen also said no security officials were present at the scene.A relative of al-Awlaki said Friday that the cleric is not dead.Last year, Al-Awlaki's father filed a lawsuit against Obama, then-CIA chief Panetta and then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to prevent the U.S. government from trying to target his son for assassination.A district court judge threw out the case in December, leaving open the question of whether the government has the right to kill Americans abroad without a trial.The American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that the killing was part of an American counterterrorism program that "violates both U.S. and international law."This is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process," said ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer.But Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, said al-Awlaki was on a "special list" of individuals attempting to attack the United States that is approved by the National Security Council and the president. Targeting those individuals is legal and legitimate, said Ruppersberger, the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who was in Yemen two months ago.He called Khan's death collateral damage: "He just happened to be in the vehicle."Al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and lived in the United States until the age of 7, when his family returned to Yemen. He returned to the United States in 1991 for college and remained until 2002.It was during that time that, as an imam in California and Virginia, al-Awlaki preached to and interacted with three of the men who went on to become September 11, 2001, hijackers, according to the 9/11 Commission report. He publicly condemned the attack afterward.In 2006 and 2007, al-Awlaki spent 18 months in a Yemeni prison on kidnapping charges, but was released without trial. Al-Awlaki said he was imprisoned and held at the request of the United States.U.S. officials say al-Awlaki helped recruit Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian man known as the underwear bomber, who was charged with trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight as it landed in Detroit on December 25, 2009.The militant cleric is also said to have exchanged e-mails with accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing a dozen fellow soldiers and a civilian in a rampage at the Texas Army post."If you put it into perspective, bin Laden's death had global ramifications for the transnational terror movement," Gohel said. "Anwar al-Awlaki's death will have equal implications for lone-wolf terrorism."That's because al-Awlaki was articulate and he understood the Western mindset, Gohel said. He knew his way around the Internet and was skilled in indoctrinating impressionable youth.Early this year, a Yemeni court sentenced al-Awlaki in absentia to 10 years in prison on charges of inciting to kill foreigners.Prosecutors charged al-Awlaki and two others with "forming an armed gang" to target foreign officers and law enforcement. At a U.S. congressional hearing this year, Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said, "I actually consider al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula, with al-Awlaki as a leader within that organization, as probably the most significant threat to the U.S."According to IntelCenter, which monitors jihadist propaganda, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who is responsible for expanding AQAP's focus on U.S. attacks, remains in charge of the group and further attempts to conduct attacks are expected.In support of that goal, al-Awlaki was due to release an article in the next issue of AQAP's Inspire magazine on the justifications for attacking civilians in the West. The group announced the upcoming article -- "Targeting Populations of Countries at War with Muslims" -- this week but did not publish it in its latest edition.Al-Awlaki narrowly survived a U.S. drone assault in May after he switched vehicles with a fellow jihadi, a senior security official told CNN.Attorneys for al-Awlaki's father, Dr. Nasser al-Awlaki, tried to persuade U.S. District Court Judge John Bates in Washington to issue an injunction last year preventing the U.S. government from trying to kill al-Awlaki in Yemen.Bates dismissed the case in December, ruling that Nasser al-Awlaki did not have standing to sue.In a November hearing, lawyers for the U.S. government declined to confirm that the cleric was on a secret "kill list" or that such a list even existed.Last year, YouTube removed a number of video clips featuring al-Awlaki that it said incited violence.Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, called al-Awlaki's death a "great success" in the fight against al-Qaida."For the past several years, al-Awlaki has been more dangerous even than Osama bin Laden had been," the New York Republican said. "The killing of al-Awlaki is a tremendous tribute to President Obama and the men and women of our intelligence community."Despite this vital development today, we must remain as vigilant as ever, knowing that there are more Islamic terrorists who will gladly step forward to backfill this dangerous killer."Al-Awlaki's death is the latest in a string of losses for al-Qaida.According to Michael Vickers, the U.S. undersecretary of defense for intelligence, eight of the network's 20 key leaders have been killed this year. He cited the killing of bin Laden in May, the death of al-Qaida second-in-command Atiya Abdul Rahman in August, and the capture this month in Pakistan of Younis Mauritani, a senior planner of operations.Only al-Qaida's current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, remains active among those who were among the top nine terrorists at the time of the 9/11 attacks against the United States in 2001.But al-Qaida is far from dead, Vickers noted, and still poses a dangerous threat to the United States."It maintains a worldwide strength numbering in the low thousands. It has broadened its reach through affiliate organizations" in general, but in particular he mentioned al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which he said has increased its operating space in Yemen.A statement from the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, said al-Awlaki was a peaceful man while he was imam there and turned militant only after returning to Yemen. The statement condemned his espousal of violence." Al-Awlaki will no longer spread his hate speech over the Internet to Muslim youth provoking them to engage in violence against Americans," the statement said.However, the center also rejected what it called "the use of extra-judicial assassination of any human being and especially an American citizen.'"We reiterate our commitment to due process under law and justice and are concerned that the alleged drone attack sends the wrong message to law abiding people around the world," it said.CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom, Barbara Starr, Lesa Jansen and Diane Ruggiero and journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report.
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UPDATE-JAN 09,2015-06:15PM
THE BROTHERS HAD A ROCKET PROPEL GRENAIDE,MULTITUDES OF AUTOMATIC AND OTHER FIREARMS ON THEM IN THE PRINTING BUILDING.AND THE 3RD TERRORIST AT THE KOSHER MARKET.ALSO HAD NUMEROUS AUTOMATIC GUNS AND OTHER GUNS IN THEIR POSSESION. AND I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE 500 PHONE CALLS BY THE WIVES OF THE BROTHERS.IT WAS IN ALL OF 2014.THEY PHONED EACH OTHER.AND THEY DONE THIS BECAUSE THE BROTHERS KNEW THEIR PHONES WERE TAPED.BUT THEY THOUGHT THE WIVES PHONES WOULD NOT BE TAPED.BUT THEY WERE.AND A TOTAL OF 500 WERE PHONED FROM WIVE TO WIFE IN ALL OF 2014.HAYAD.THE ONLY ALIVE TERRORIST IS 26 YEARS OLD. HAYAD AND COULIBALY WERE GOING TOGETHER SINCE 2010.AND HAYAD WILL PROBABLY HIDE OUT WITH OTHER TERRORISTS IN ONE OF THE 751 NO-GO ZONES IN THE MUSLIM DISTRICT OF FRANCE.WERE NO POLICE WILL EVEN GO NEAR BECAUSE OF ALL THE VIOLENCE IN THESE NO-GO ZONES IN AND AROUND FRANCE.
UPDATE-JAN 09,2015-06:00PM
NOW WE FIND OUT.15 STICKS OF DYNAMITE WERE DISCOVERED BY POLICE IN THE KOSHER STORE HOSTAGE TAKING.AND ALSO.500 PHONE CALLS WERE PLACED BETWEEN THE WIVES OF THE KILLED BROTHERS.DURING THE HOSTAGE TAKING EVENT THIS AFTERNOON.SO OVIOUSLY ALL THE WIVES ARE INVOLVED IN THIS PLOT ALSO.THAT REALLY MAKES.THE GIRL FRIEND OF THE KILLED TERRORIST.AT THE KOSHER SHOP AND THE 2 WIVES OF THE KILLED TERRORIST BROTHERS. ALL INVOLVED IN THE TERRORIST ATTACK YET.SO 3 TERRORIST WOMEN ARE ON THE LOOSE YET.
UPDATE-JAN 09,2015-05:30PM (QUICK RECAP LAST 2 DAYS HAPPENINGS)
AROUND 8PM LAST NIGHT THE POLICE OFFICER WAS KILLED BY THE 2 NON BROTHER TERRORISTS.AND OVIOUSLY THE GUY AND HIS GIRLFRIEND BOUMED DIENE ESCAPED.FROM THE POLICE KILLING SCENE YESTERDAY.THEN TODAY THE BROTHERS WERE KILLED IN A FORCED SUICIDE.AS THEY RUSHED POLICE FROM THE PRINTING SHOP THEY WERE HELD UP IN.AND SINCE THEY WANTED TO BE MARTYRS.THATS WHAT THEY WERE.THEY RAN AT THE POLICE .AND THE POLICE KILLED THEM ON THE SPOT.THEN ALSO TODAY.AT AN ISRAELI KOSHER GROCEY EAST OF PARIS.A SECOND HOSTAGE SITUATION WAS BEING COMMITED. THE 3RD TERRORIST.AMEDY COULIBALY AND HIS GIRL FRIEND WENT IN THE KOSHER GROCERY.AND INSTANTLY SHOT 4 ISRAELI HOSTAGES TO DEATH. ABOUT AN HOUR OR 2 LATER.THE POLICE RAIDED THE KOSHER STORE. AND KILLED COULIBALY. WHILE HIS GIRL FRIEND ESCAPED THE SCENE.I STILL NEVER HEARD HOW MANY WERE INJURED AT THE KOSHER STORE YET.BUT REPORTS SAID.AT LEAST 6 AMBULENCES WENT TO THE SCENE. AFTER THE RAID OCCURED. SO THE ONLY TERRORIST ON THE LOOSE NOW.IS HAYAD BOUMED DIENE.THE GIRL FRIEND OF THE DEAD TERRORIST THAT KILLED 4 AT THE KOSHER STORE AND 1 POLICE OFFICER.SO 5 KILLED BY THE COULIBALY-BOUMED DIENE PAIR OF TERRORISTS. AND 12 KILLED.11 INJURED,4 SERIOUSLY BY THE KOUACHI TERRORIST BROTHERS. A TOTAL OF 17 INNOCENT CITIZENS KILLED BY THESE 4 ISLAMIC-RADICAL-SHARIA-72 VIRGIN.SEX FOR MURDER ALLAH-AK- BAR, MOON GOD ALLAH.AND PEDOPHILE PROPHET MOHAMMID MUSLIM CULT KILLERS.WITH THE 3 DEAD TERRORISTS.A TOTAL OF 20 DIED IN THE LAST 3 DAYS. AND AL-QUIDA IN YEMEN IS CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACTION OF THESE 4 TERRORIST KILLERS OF THE DEATH CULT-ISLAMIC-QUARANIC-SHARIA MUSLIM CULTOF ISLAM.
UPDATE-JAN 09,2015-03:00PM
THE MEDIA IS NOW SAYING THAT THE KOSHER MARKET HOSTAGE KILLINGS WERE AN ANTI-SEMETIC ACT AGAINST JEWS.NOT A MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK. HERE WE GO WITH THE ISLAM SUCKUP AGAIN.TRYING TO SAY THESE MURDERS WERE ANTI-SEMETIC INSTEAD OF ISLAMIC RADICAL MUSLIM LUNATICS.I SAY THEY WERE BOTH.THEY WERE ANTI-SEMETIC AND ISLAMIC RADICAL MURDER ERS. ISLAM AND ISRAEL HATE GOES HAND IN HAND.THATS WHY ISLAM HAS TO BE FINISHED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.A TV STATION PHONED TO THE PRINTING SHOP WERE THE 2 BROTHERS WERE HOLDING THE HOSTAGES.ONE OF THE BROTHERS ANSWERED THE PHONE.AND TOLD THE TV STATION.HE WAS PAID BY AL-AWLAKI IN YEMEN TO KILL IN FRANCE TO AVENGE AL-AWLAKI'S MURDER IN 2011.AND NOW WE FIND OUT BOTH BROTHERS WERE IN SYRIA TRAINING EARLIER THIS YEAR.A man claiming to be Charlie Hebdo attack suspect Cherif Kouachi called CNN affiliate BFMTV on Friday and said that he trained in Yemen with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and that he met with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Muslim who was the face of AQAP until he was killed in the fall of 2011 in a U.S. drone strike.WE KNOW 4 HOSTAGES WERE KILLED AT THE KOSHER STORE.WE JUST GOTTA FIND OUT THE INJURIES YET.THE 4 MURDERERS KILLED A TOTAL OF 17 PEOPLE OVER A 3 DAY SPAN.
France: Raids kill 3 suspects, including 2 wanted in Charlie Hebdo attack-By Greg Botelho, Ben Brumfield and Jim Sciutto, CNN-Updated 1926 GMT (0326 HKT) January 9, 2015
Paris (CNN)A pair of dramatic raids Friday in France led to the killing of three terrorists -- one suspected in the fatal shooting of a policewoman, the other two in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine -- and to the freeing of at least some of those they were holding hostage.
The French government's work is not over. There's still a lot of healing to do, a lot of questions to answer about how to prevent future attacks, and the fact that a woman wanted in the policewoman's shooting remains at large.
• Four people were killed in the standoff at the market near Porte de Vincennes, French President Francois Hollande said.
• He called the attack on the kosher market an "anti-Semitic" act.
• "Unity is our best weapon," the President said, noting that "France is not done with threats that are targeting" the country.
• "Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion," Hollande added.
• Said Kouachi spent several months in Yemen in 2011, receiving weapons training and working with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based there, U.S. officials said Friday.
• Hollande held a crisis meeting Friday afternoon with senior Cabinet members at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Those in attendance included Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Cazeneuve and Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, according to the French presidency.
STANDOFF IN DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE
• A man claiming to be Charlie Hebdo attack suspect Cherif Kouachi called CNN affiliate BFMTV on Friday and said that he trained in Yemen with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and that he met with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Muslim who was the face of AQAP until he was killed in the fall of 2011 in a U.S. drone strike.
• Dammartin-en-Goele Mayor Michel Dutruge told France Info radio that he is breathing "a big sigh of relief" after the conclusion of the standoff in his village.
• The male hostage who was being held by brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi inside a printing business in the town is safe, Othis Mayor Bernard Corneille said.
• The brothers were killed in an operation by security forces, Corneille said. French media also reported their deaths, citing police sources.
• Four helicopters, including a medical helicopter, landed at a site near where the operation took place.
• Men were on the roof of the building where the Kouachi brothers -- both suspects in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo -- were believed to be, images from CNN affiliate BFMTV showed. Smoke could be seen rising from the building.
• A helicopter landed next to the building.
• Shots were heard shortly before 5 p.m. around the industrial area where the brothers were surrounded by law enforcement. At least large explosions were also heard.
Manhunt for terror suspects
• Yves Albarello, who is in France's parliament, said on French channel iTele that the two suspects told police by phone that they wanted to die as martyrs.
• A salesman, who identified himself only as Didier, told France Info radio that he shook one of the gunman's hands around 8:30 a.m. Friday as they arrived at a Dammartin-en-Goele printing business -- the same place where the Kouachi brothers were. Didier told the public radio station that he first thought the man, who was dressed in black and heavily armed, was a police officer.As he left, the armed man said, "Go, we don't kill civilians," Didier said. "It wasn't normal. I did not know what was going on."
• Dammartin-en-Goele residents were told to stay inside, and schools were put on lockdown, the mayor's media office told CNN on Friday. Shops in the town have been told to close.
GROCERY STORE HOSTAGE SITUATION
• Like Cherif Kouachi, a man claiming to be slain hostage-taking suspect Amedy Coulibaly called BFMTV on Friday.
• Cazeneuve, the interior minister, wouldn't comment on the number of people injured or dead in either of the operations conducted Friday. Earlier, French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud tweeted that the hostages in the grocery store siege were alive, but French police and Interior Ministry officials did not comment on the state of the hostages.
• Coulibaly, who goes by the alias Doly Gringy, was a close associate of Cherif Kouachi, a Western intelligence source told CNN. The two were involved in a 2010 attempt to free an Algerian serving time for a 1995 subway bombing.
French police escort hostages away from a kosher grocery store in the Paris neighborhood of Porte de Vincennes on Friday, January 9. The hostage-taker was killed during a police operation, police union spokesman Pascal Disand said.
• Hayat Boumeddiene, the 26-year-old woman wanted in Thursday's fatal shooting of a policewoman outside Paris, escaped Friday from the grocery store in the confusion as hostages ran away, Alliance Police Union spokesman Pascal Disand said. She'd been in the market with Coulibaly, the other suspect in Thursday's deadly incident. The FBI also said that French police were trying to find Boumeddiene.
• Some police were injured in the operation at the eastern Paris kosher grocery store, according to Disand. At least 10 hostages escaped, and Coulibaly was killed, according to the union spokesman.
• The hostages held at the market near Porte de Vincennes are alive, and "the terrorist is dead," Gerard Araud tweeted.
• Police at the scene of the grocery store siege shouted "get down!" and "we've got him," video from CNN affiliate BFMTV showed.
• Police could be seen leaving the eastern Paris grocery store, where hostages were being held, with people late Friday afternoon.
• Large explosions could be heart around 5:10 p.m. (11:10 a.m. ET) Friday near the store.
• The hostage-taker there demanded freedom for the Kouachi brothers, witnesses said, according to Disand.
• Dozens of schools were placed under lockdown because of the hostage situation in eastern Paris, police said.
• Police anti-terror units raced to the scene of the hostage situation early Friday afternoon, while ambulances blared as they moved away from it. Roads around the area have been blocked off.
Father: 'It's like a war'
Henri Dunant elementary school should be a place to learn, to play, to be a kid.Not to hide in fear of killers on the loose. But that's what students did for hours Friday, there and at many other schools around Dammartin-en-Goele.By late Friday afternoon, some of them were finally allowed to leave, though they weren't alone. Police officers accompanied the children -- holding their hands as they guided and, in some cases, lifted them onto an awaiting bus that would take them to safety.
Paris attack's tragic timeline 02:31
The Interior Ministry reported the schoolchildren were being evacuated to sports facilities in nearby Mitry-Mory.One father, who lives across the street from a school and asked to be identified only as Teddy, described the situation as "very worrying.""It's like a war," he said. "I don't know how I will explain this to my 5-year-old son."
Parts of France on high alert
This "war" erupted two days ago, when a pair of heavily armed men -- hooded and dressed in black -- entered the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine known for its provocative, often profane, sometimes controversial take on religion, politics and most anything else.
Satirical magazine is no stranger to controversy
They burst into a meeting, called out individuals, and then executed them. The dead included editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier and four other well-known cartoonists known by the pen names: Cabu, Wolinski, Honore and Tignous.Authorities followed a lead Thursday morning from a gas station attendant near Villers-Cotterets, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Dammartin-en-Goele, whom Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, reportedly threatened as they stole food and gas. Police think the brothers may have later fled on foot into nearby woodlands.Northern France's Picardy region was the focal point of the manhunt, and Prime Minister Valls put it on the same, highest-possible alert level as has been in place since Wednesday in and around Paris.And police spying down with night vision optics from helicopters said they thought they caught a glimpse of them Thursday near Crepy-en-Valois, France -- not far from the reported robbery.That town and the gas station border a patch of woods, and on another side of the forest, 30 to 40 police vehicles swarmed out from the town of Longpont.Squads of officers armed with rifles -- some also in helmets and with shields -- canvassed fields and forest.They didn't find the Kouachi brothers there. Instead, somehow, they moved to Dammartin-en-Goele.
Ties to Islamist extremists
As these two moved, the French government -- including more than 80,000 police deployed across the country -- also didn't stand still.Some of them tried to prevent more bloodshed, which might have something to do with the nine detained after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Investigators also dug to learn about the attackers.
Who are the suspects?
Both men had ties to Islamist extremists.Said, the elder of the Kouachi brothers, spent several months in Yemen in 2011, receiving weapons training and working with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to U.S. officials.His younger brother, Cherif, has a long history of jihad and anti-Semitism, according to documents obtained by CNN. In a 400-page court record, he is described as wanting to go to Iraq through Syria "to go and combat the Americans.""I was ready to go and die in battle," he said in a deposition. "... I got this idea when I saw the injustices shown by television. ... I am speaking about the torture that the Americans have inflicted on the Iraqis."And Cherif is a close associate of Coulibaly, the suspect in Thursday's police shooting in Montrouge and the man behind the eastern Paris grocery store siege, a Western intelligence source told CNN.Both men were involved in a 2010 attempt to free an Algerian incarcerated for a 1995 subway bombing. Coulibaly was arrested with 240 rounds of ammunition for a Kalashnikov rifle and a photo of Djamel Beghal, a French Algerian once known as al Qaeda's premier European recruiter.The Western intelligence source said that Coulibaly lived with Boumeddiene, his alleged accomplice in the police shooting, and that the two traveled to Malaysia together.
Charlie Hebdo columnist: 'They didn't want us to be quiet'-Boumeddiene is the only of the four main suspects in this week's incidents who is still alive.France, as a nation, appears to be invigorated by all of it -- joined by others worldwide who've rallied around the country and, especially, Charlie Hebdo magazine.A unity rally will be held Sunday "celebrating the values behind" Charlie Hebdo, said British Prime Minister David Cameron, who will travel to Paris to attend.And the magazine itself -- whose former offices were firebombed in 2011, on the day it was to publish an issue poking fun at Islamic law and after it published a cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed -- will go on as well, even without its leader and most talented staffers. It's set to publish thousands of copies of its latest edition next Wednesday.Patrick Pelloux, a columnist for the magazine, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that "I don't know if I'm afraid anymore, because I've seen fear. I was scared for my friends, and they are dead."Instead, he and many others are defiant."I know that they didn't want us to be quiet," Pelloux said of the slain Charlie Hebdo staffers. "They wanted us to continue to fight for these values, cultural pluralism, democracy and secularism, the respect of others. They would be assassinated twice, if we remained silent."CNN's Jim Sciutto reported from France, Ben Brumfield and Greg Botelho wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Atika Shubert, Laura Smith-Spark, Richard Greene, Fred Pleitgen, Christiane Amanpour, Jim Bittermann and Bryony Jones contributed to this report.
Charlie Hebdo suspects shot dead in assault-UPDATED: 10 Jan 2015 01:19-CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
DAMMARTIN-EN-GOËLE, France: Elite French police stormed a printworks and a Jewish supermarket Friday (Jan 9), killing two brothers wanted for the Charlie Hebdo attack and an apparent accomplice who had taken hostages in two separate sieges that traumatised France.Explosions rocked a small printing firm in the village of Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, and smoke poured from the building as the heavily armed forces mounted their assault as night fell.The two Islamists launched a desperate escape bid, charging out of the building firing at the security forces before being cut down in their tracks, a security source said.Meanwhile, in the east of Paris, gunfire erupted as police stormed the Jewish store, where at least one armed assailant had seized five hostages after two people were killed in a gun battle. The gunman was also killed, security sources said, as terrified hostages were seen running out of the store.The dramatic climax to the two stand-offs brought to an end more than 48 hours of fear and uncertainty in the country that began when the two brothers slaughtered 12 people at Charlie Hebdo in the bloodiest attack on French soil in half a century.The hostage-taker in the eastern Porte de Vincennes area of Paris was suspected of gunning down a policewoman in southern Paris Thursday and knew at least one of the Charlie Hebdo gunmen. French police released mugshots of the man, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, as well as a woman named as 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, also wanted over the shooting of the policewoman.The Porte de Vincennes area in eastern Paris was swamped with police who shut down the city's ringroad as well as schools and shops in the area.- AFP/rw
Officials: U.S. may face retaliation for Al-Awlaki death-Airstrike kills Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen-Published 1:56 AM CDT Oct 01, 2011
The killings Friday of alleged terrorists cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and computer expert Samir Khan could spark retaliatory attacks against the United States, according to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.The agencies issued a joint intelligence bulletin late Friday that said supporters might seek to portray al-Awlaki as a martyr in a supposed U.S. war against Islam. It says the deaths "could provide motivation for homeland attacks" by "homegrown violent extremists," the type the two men allegedly tried to recruit or inspire.The bulletin came less than a day after U.S. and Yemeni government officials announced that al-Awlaki -- an American whose fluency with English and technology made him a top terrorist recruiter -- was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen."It was a joint U.S. military-intelligence operation," a U.S. official said, adding that the U.S. military helped target al-Awlaki and that manned American military aircraft were flying overhead ready to offer assistance. The drone was operated by the CIA, officials said.The strike also killed Khan, an American, and two others who were in the same vehicle as al-Awlaki, said another U.S. official who was briefed by the CIA. Khan specialized in computer programming for al-Qaida and produced the terrorist network's English-language online magazine, Inspire.The CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command had al-Awlaki under surveillance for at least two weeks, but were awaiting an opportunity to kill him without causing civilian casualties or damage, an administration official said. CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) personnel and assets, including drones, were used to track him and to assess how to target him. JSOC, which commands the clandestine U.S. military units, "played a key role in developing the targeting information."The source said U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jets were flying overhead to provide backup firepower if needed. In addition, troops from the JSOC units were on standby to board V-22 helicopters in the region to rescue potential downed pilots or to conduct operations on the ground if needed. But the only ordnance used came from the drone, the official said.The official also said the mission, codenamed Operation Troy, was similar to the one in May that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in that it was commanded by the CIA, with close coordination with JSOC.U.S. President Barack Obama called al-Awlaki's death a "major blow" to al-Qaida, reeling still from the killing and capture this year of several top leaders, most notably bin Laden."His hateful ideology and targeting of innocent civilians has been rejected by the vast majority of Muslims and people of all faiths and he has met his demise because the government and the people of Yemen have joined the international community in a common effort against al-Qaida," Obama said.He said al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, remains a dangerous but weakened organization. "Working with Yemen and our other allies and partners, we will be determined, we will be deliberate, we will be relentless, we will be resolute in our commitment to destroy terrorist networks that aim to kill Americans," Obama said.A Yemeni government official told CNN that the killing was the result of a "successful joint intelligence-sharing operation" between Yemen and the United States. The official asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the news media."This country is much safer as a result of the loss of Awlaki," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters in Washington. "As far as the operational elements, I'm not going to speak to those except to say that we've been working with the Yemenis over a long period of time to be able to target Awlaki."Citing bin Laden's killing in May, Panetta added, "This has been a bad year for terrorists." He said he wanted to congratulate the Yemenis "on their efforts, their intelligence assistance, their operational assistance to get this job done." The U.S.-Yemeni effort in pursuing al-Awlaki "was something that involved a tremendous amount of cooperation between the United States and the Yemenis, and today it paid off," he added.The United States regarded al-Awlaki, the public face of AQAP, as a terrorist who posed a threat to American homeland security. Western intelligence officials said they believe al-Awlaki was a senior leader of AQAP, one of the world's most active al-Qaida affiliates. It has been linked to the attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit in December 2009 and a cargo plane plot last year.
"Anwar al-Awlaki didn't need subtitles to indoctrinate," said Sajjan Gohel of the Asia Pacific Foundation, who called al-Awlaki's death significant. "He spoke English, he understood how to impact the Muslim diaspora in the West."Al-Awlaki was killed about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the Yemeni town of Khashef, east of the capital, Sanaa, said Mohammed Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington. He said the operation was launched at 9:55 a.m.The Yemeni government official said Yemeni intelligence had recently located al-Awlaki's hideout in a house in Khashef, in Jawf province, which borders Saudi Arabia. Tribesmen from neighboring Marib province told CNN that they witnessed an attack Friday and that five people who died were burned beyond recognition, raising questions about how al-Awlaki's body had been identified. The tribesmen also said no security officials were present at the scene.A relative of al-Awlaki said Friday that the cleric is not dead.Last year, Al-Awlaki's father filed a lawsuit against Obama, then-CIA chief Panetta and then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to prevent the U.S. government from trying to target his son for assassination.A district court judge threw out the case in December, leaving open the question of whether the government has the right to kill Americans abroad without a trial.The American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that the killing was part of an American counterterrorism program that "violates both U.S. and international law."This is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process," said ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer.But Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, said al-Awlaki was on a "special list" of individuals attempting to attack the United States that is approved by the National Security Council and the president. Targeting those individuals is legal and legitimate, said Ruppersberger, the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who was in Yemen two months ago.He called Khan's death collateral damage: "He just happened to be in the vehicle."Al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and lived in the United States until the age of 7, when his family returned to Yemen. He returned to the United States in 1991 for college and remained until 2002.It was during that time that, as an imam in California and Virginia, al-Awlaki preached to and interacted with three of the men who went on to become September 11, 2001, hijackers, according to the 9/11 Commission report. He publicly condemned the attack afterward.In 2006 and 2007, al-Awlaki spent 18 months in a Yemeni prison on kidnapping charges, but was released without trial. Al-Awlaki said he was imprisoned and held at the request of the United States.U.S. officials say al-Awlaki helped recruit Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian man known as the underwear bomber, who was charged with trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight as it landed in Detroit on December 25, 2009.The militant cleric is also said to have exchanged e-mails with accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing a dozen fellow soldiers and a civilian in a rampage at the Texas Army post."If you put it into perspective, bin Laden's death had global ramifications for the transnational terror movement," Gohel said. "Anwar al-Awlaki's death will have equal implications for lone-wolf terrorism."That's because al-Awlaki was articulate and he understood the Western mindset, Gohel said. He knew his way around the Internet and was skilled in indoctrinating impressionable youth.Early this year, a Yemeni court sentenced al-Awlaki in absentia to 10 years in prison on charges of inciting to kill foreigners.Prosecutors charged al-Awlaki and two others with "forming an armed gang" to target foreign officers and law enforcement. At a U.S. congressional hearing this year, Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said, "I actually consider al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula, with al-Awlaki as a leader within that organization, as probably the most significant threat to the U.S."According to IntelCenter, which monitors jihadist propaganda, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who is responsible for expanding AQAP's focus on U.S. attacks, remains in charge of the group and further attempts to conduct attacks are expected.In support of that goal, al-Awlaki was due to release an article in the next issue of AQAP's Inspire magazine on the justifications for attacking civilians in the West. The group announced the upcoming article -- "Targeting Populations of Countries at War with Muslims" -- this week but did not publish it in its latest edition.Al-Awlaki narrowly survived a U.S. drone assault in May after he switched vehicles with a fellow jihadi, a senior security official told CNN.Attorneys for al-Awlaki's father, Dr. Nasser al-Awlaki, tried to persuade U.S. District Court Judge John Bates in Washington to issue an injunction last year preventing the U.S. government from trying to kill al-Awlaki in Yemen.Bates dismissed the case in December, ruling that Nasser al-Awlaki did not have standing to sue.In a November hearing, lawyers for the U.S. government declined to confirm that the cleric was on a secret "kill list" or that such a list even existed.Last year, YouTube removed a number of video clips featuring al-Awlaki that it said incited violence.Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, called al-Awlaki's death a "great success" in the fight against al-Qaida."For the past several years, al-Awlaki has been more dangerous even than Osama bin Laden had been," the New York Republican said. "The killing of al-Awlaki is a tremendous tribute to President Obama and the men and women of our intelligence community."Despite this vital development today, we must remain as vigilant as ever, knowing that there are more Islamic terrorists who will gladly step forward to backfill this dangerous killer."Al-Awlaki's death is the latest in a string of losses for al-Qaida.According to Michael Vickers, the U.S. undersecretary of defense for intelligence, eight of the network's 20 key leaders have been killed this year. He cited the killing of bin Laden in May, the death of al-Qaida second-in-command Atiya Abdul Rahman in August, and the capture this month in Pakistan of Younis Mauritani, a senior planner of operations.Only al-Qaida's current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, remains active among those who were among the top nine terrorists at the time of the 9/11 attacks against the United States in 2001.But al-Qaida is far from dead, Vickers noted, and still poses a dangerous threat to the United States."It maintains a worldwide strength numbering in the low thousands. It has broadened its reach through affiliate organizations" in general, but in particular he mentioned al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which he said has increased its operating space in Yemen.A statement from the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, said al-Awlaki was a peaceful man while he was imam there and turned militant only after returning to Yemen. The statement condemned his espousal of violence." Al-Awlaki will no longer spread his hate speech over the Internet to Muslim youth provoking them to engage in violence against Americans," the statement said.However, the center also rejected what it called "the use of extra-judicial assassination of any human being and especially an American citizen.'"We reiterate our commitment to due process under law and justice and are concerned that the alleged drone attack sends the wrong message to law abiding people around the world," it said.CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom, Barbara Starr, Lesa Jansen and Diane Ruggiero and journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report.
