The Yemeni government has released an executive statement saying the U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed.
The government says al-Awlaki was embattled and killed 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the town of Khashef in the Province of al-Jawf the town is located 87 miles (140 kilometers) east of the capital Sanaa the statement says the act was launched on Friday around 9:55 a.m. It gave no other details.
If the death is confirmed, al-Awlaki would be the nearly everyone prominent al-Qaida figure to be killed since Osama bin Laden's death in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in May.
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