{"id":491,"date":"2011-09-30T09:24:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T09:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2011-09-30T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T09:24:33","slug":"u-s-born-terror-boss-anwar-al-awlaki-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/u-s-born-terror-boss-anwar-al-awlaki-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Born Terror Boss Anwar Al-Awlaki Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"awlaki\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a57.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/World\/396\/223\/102410_awlaki.jpg?resize=396%2C223\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>SANAA, Yemen \u00e2\u20ac\u201c  The U.S.-born terror mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed, Fox News confirms.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old, who was born in New Mexico, was linked to the 2009 Christmas Day &#8220;underwear bomber&#8221; plot &#8212; a narrowly foiled bid to blow up a passenger jet approaching Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Awlaki was a major target for the US following the Obama administration&#8217;s authorization last year of CIA and military attempts to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>He was also linked to the failed Times Square bomb attempt in May last year and the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting, in which 13 people were killed by a gunman at the US Army base.<\/p>\n<p>Awlaki&#8217;s death follows an unsuccessful attempt on his life on May 5. In that attack, US aircraft followed and fired missiles at a truck in which the terror boss was traveling.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came just days after the successful raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan which killed al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/09\/30\/us-born-terror-boss-anwar-al-awlaki-killed\/\">From FoxNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA, Yemen \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The U.S.-born terror mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed, Fox News confirms. The 40-year-old, who was born in New Mexico, was linked to the 2009 Christmas Day &#8220;underwear bomber&#8221; plot &#8212; a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[31,232,580],"tags":[581,582,4,583],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}