Fox News
The FBI, for the the first time, has admitted publicly that it knew
the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was returning to the U.S. in
October 2002 and that an FBI agent discussed the American's return with a
U.S. attorney before he was detained and then abruptly released from
federal custody.
Al-Awlaki, who would become the first American targeted for death by
the CIA, eventually was killed last September in Yemen by a U.S. drone
strike. Since September 2009, 26 terrorism cases have been tied to him
and his digital jihad, according to the James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy.
