Radical cleric and wanted terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was killed Friday in Yemen in what news reports say was a coordinated air strike by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Al-Awlaki was an American citizen who became a prominent al-Qaida figure and coordinated terror from Yemen hideouts.
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