Assassins hunt for al-Awlaki

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Anwar al-Awlaki

LONDON – Britain's Ministry of Defense has transferred its top SAS assassination team from Baghdad to Yemen to try to kill one of the world's most dangerous al-Qaida strategists, Anwar al-Awlaki, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Attached to the hit squad are MI6 specialists equipped with the latest tracking equipment. Awlaki is an American-born Muslim cleric and has been linked to last week's failed attack on Britain's ambassador in Sana, Yemen's ramshackle capital.

The envoy's heavily armed motorcade was attacked on a narrow road on the way to the British Embassy when his bodyguards shot dead one terrorist and left three critically injured.

Within hours, the SAS team had arrived in the country to reinforce President Obama's authorization to assassinate al-Awlaki. He already was wanted for planning last year's Fort Hood massacre and the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound jet by one of the terrorists he had trained in Yemen.

American counter-terrorism officials confirmed earlier this year Obama had taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of al-Awlaki, an American citizen.

An unidentified official told the New York Times at the time, "The danger Awlaki poses to this country is no longer confined to words."

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