Islamist cleric Anwar Awlaki killed in Yemen

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US-born radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a key al-Qaeda leader, has been killed in Yemen, the country's defence ministry said.

He had played a "significant operational role in the Christmas 2009 Detroit airline bomb attempt, said officials, and in the plot which sent two bombs in printer cartridges on US-bound cargo planes in 2010. They were intercepted in the UK and Dubai.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15121879

While it's undeniably a good thing that another terrorist is dead, the fact that the CIA is now assassinating U.S. citizens is a very scary precedent.