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president returned to the country and is looking for the united states help to keep him in power, and some of this was political in nature. sure. absolutely. in fact, the u.s. government discouraged him from returning to yemen, as did the saudi government. we know that from officials in both governments. he went back anyway. he is looking for support. we don t know whether or not the united states was directly involved in the killing, the yemeni government does not have the capability without u.s. assistance to get this done. fran townsend, hope you ll still around. many more questions. live to istanbul to check in with mohammed jamjoom who has information about exactly where al awlaki was killed. good morning. reporter: good morning, christine. we re told by the yemeni embassy in washington, d.c. that the operation that killed anwar al awlaki was killed out in a province of yemen about 140 kilometers from the capital, from sanaa. interesting, because anwar alky was be
square last year. an extraordinary development and we mobilized cnn correspondents around the world to cover this breaking news story for us from the pentagon to istanbuistanbul. it s hard to indicate just how important al awlaki was to the organization, but here s a frightening reality. he may be more dangerous dead. that s exactly what our nic robertson has been covering to this point. let s go straight to you. what exactly do you know with regard to how he was targeted and is it possible to give credit to an agency at this point? well, i think what we just heard from fran townsend perhaps nails it down very well. that is that it can t be nailed down because nobody wants to go on the record. the past track record, however, of against al awlaki in may this year was credited to the united states, to a drone strike. missile bumped off the fender of his car as he made a get away. politically sensitive. right now the president does not need the united states to announce that i
happening today, at the trial of jackson s doctor. now, court reconvenes in about 45 minutes or so dr. conrad murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter jackson s death. yesterday a security guard testified that murray asked him to help gather up drug vials before even asking him to call 911. i was standing at the foot of the bed p he reached over and grabbeded a handful of vials and then he reached out to me and said, here, put these in a bag. and engineers are back at work today rappelling down the sides of the washington monument, they are looking for any damage the earthquake caused last moment. the work has been delayed by some weather. still a ways to go but one of the engineers says so far, good. not a bad way to spend a work day as well. incredible, not only because of the actual history of the structure but the area and being the view. and just knowing what you re doing and seeing what you re seeing after the earthquake. we have the drawings from repair
since osama bin laden. the breaking news this hour, we re learning more about the air strike in yemen that killed anwar al-awlaki. first, a reminder of why this american born cleric was so dangerous. president obama says he took the lead in planning to murder americans. he s been linked to those terror suspects of the decade including the so-called underwear bomber, the accused ft. hood attacker, three of the 9/11 hijackers and the man who allegedly tried to blow up a car in times square in new york. we have in depth coverage of the mission to kill al-awlaki and the implications. first, to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. several administration officials say it was a cia hit. the cia and pentagon had been working with the yemenese for nearly two years to kill anwar al-awlaki. we had always had tremendous concern that after getting bin laden, that someone like al-awlaki was a primary target because of his continuing efforts to plan attacks against the united stat