America has a new Public Enemy No. 1

deleted · Feb 10, 2011

U.S.-born cleric. Al-Awlaki replaces bin Laden as 'most significant risk'

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By SHELDON ALBERTS, Postmedia News February 10, 2011

Almost a decade after the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington, the United States no longer considers Osama bin Laden to be the biggest terror threat to America.
U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter, testifying yesterday before the House homeland security committee, told lawmakers continued "offensive pressure" on bin Laden's Pakistani safe havens has substantially reduced Al-Qa'ida's ability to launch a "large-scale attack" on America.
The greater danger, Leiter said, now comes from American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his Al-Qa'ida ties in the Arabian Peninsula. Not only has al-Awlaki demonstrated some capability to strike at the U.S. from outside the country, he also has emerged as the primary influence over homegrown terrorists plotting to strike within the United States, he said.
"I actually consider Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula, with al-Awlaki as a leader within that organization, probably the most significant risk to the U.S. homeland," Leiter said.
It was the most explicit statement yet from an Obama administration official that al-Awlaki, a 39-year-old U.S. citizen now hiding in Yemen, has surpassed bin Laden in his ability to carry out plots against the U.S. homeland.
U.S. President Barack Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, last December had described Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula as "most operationally active node" of the Al-Qa'ida network. The Obama administration has authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate al-Awlaki.
Al-Awlaki has been cited for inspiring U.S. army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused in the November 2009 shooting spree in Fort Hood, Texas, through anti-American Internet postings and emails.
He is said to have trained Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused in the Christmas Day 2009 attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet.

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Reality is BS · Feb 10, 2011

If you study this guy you will discover he is a CIA assest just as Bin Laden was. He's just another scary face to shape peoples thoughts.

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