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Wanted Yemeni Cleric Calls for American Deaths

   Elizabeth Arrott 08 November 2010
   This  image released by the SITE Intelligence Group on 23 October 2010
   shows a video still image from a portion of an Anwar al-Awlaki lecture

Photo: AFP/SITE

   This  image released by the SITE Intelligence Group on 23 October 2010
   shows a video still image from a portion of an Anwar al-Awlaki lecture

   A  U.S.-born  radical  Yemeni  cleric  has  called  for the killing of
   Americans in a new video posted on a radical Muslim website.
   Anwar  al-Awlaki  referred  to  Americans  as "the devil," adding that
   killing  them does not require special religious permission known as a
   fatwa.
   Awlaki said in the 23-minute video that it was either "us or them."
   Yemeni  authorities  have  charged  the cleric with incitement to kill
   foreigners. Both the U.S. and Yemen have authorized his capture either
   dead or alive.
   Awlaki has been linked to the failed plot involving a would-be suicide
   bomber  who brought explosives onto a passenger jet bound for the U.S.
   city of Detroit last December.

   [Robert Powell of The Economist discusses Al-Qaida in Yemen with VOA's
                                                           Susan Yackee:]

   U.S.  authorities  also  have  examined  the cleric's possible role in
   encouraging a shooting spree that killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base
   in Texas one year ago.

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