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Posted: 5:53 a.m. Friday, Sept. 30, 2011
Jacksonville, FL —
(AP) The Yemeni government has released an official statement saying the U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed.
The government says al-Awlaki was targeted and killed 5 miles 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 operation was launched on Friday around 9:55 a.m. It gave no other details.
If the death is confirmed, al-Awlaki would be the most 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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