Anwar al AwlakiU.S. Citizen In CIA's Cross Hairs -- L.A. Times
The agency builds a case for putting Anwar al Awlaki, linked to the Ft. Hood shootings and Christmas bomb attempt, on its hit list. The complications involved are a window into a secretive process.
Reporting from Washington - The CIA sequence for a Predator strike ends with a missile but begins with a memo. Usually no more than two or three pages long, it bears the name of a suspected terrorist, the latest intelligence on his activities, and a case for why he should be added to a list of people the agency is trying to kill.
The list typically contains about two dozen names, a number that expands each time a new memo is signed by CIA executives on the seventh floor at agency headquarters, and contracts as targets thousands of miles away, in places including Pakistan and Yemen, seem to spontaneously explode.
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My Comment: I will be very surprised if Anwar al Awlaki is finally put on a CIA hit list. He is a traitor .... and worse .... he has been complicit through association on a number of terror threats and operations .... but is this enough to have him killed? Hmmmm .... I do not have all the intelligence that the professionals have but it appears that for many in the counter terrorism field he does deserve to be put on such a list.
For more on the history of Anwar al Awlaki, ABC News has some good reporting here.