{"id":528814,"date":"2010-04-15T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2010-04-15T15:32:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:32:43","slug":"awlaki-hunt-ratchets-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528814","title":{"rendered":"Awlaki Hunt Ratchets Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hunt is heating up for US-born terror suspect and cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In its strongest statement yet, a diplomat for the Yemen government told Fox News it considers Awlaki a \u201cfugitive\u201d and wants him for questioning regarding \u201crecent ties with Al Qaeda figures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The diplomat also told Fox Yemen Yemen is \u201caddressing the findings linking Awlaki\u201d to last year\u2019s\u00a0Fort Hood shootings and the Christmas bombing attempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Awlaki is hiding in southern Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has reportedly signed off on a \u201ckill or capture \u201c order targeting Awlaki for his terror associations.<\/p>\n<p>A western diplomat in Sana\u2019a has revealed to Fox News Awlaki is now considered to be fully \u201coperational\u201d as a terrorist, and that he is involved in \u201cthe recruitment of volunteers, the conception of acts, and their implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Awlaki is thought to be, according to the diplomat, in the \u201cupper tier\u201d of Yemen\u2019s Al Qaeda chapter, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it appears, both the US AND Yemen have put Awlaki in the \u201cupper tier\u201d of their &#8220;Most Wanted&#8221; lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hunt is heating up for US-born terror suspect and cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.\u00a0 In its strongest statement yet, a diplomat for the Yemen government told Fox News it considers Awlaki a \u201cfugitive\u201d and wants him for questioning regarding \u201crecent ties with Al Qaeda figures.\u201d The diplomat also told Fox Yemen Yemen is \u201caddressing the findings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}