with the very latest. one other thing to consider is unlike what happened to bin laden, this guy, al-awlaki an american citizen. what are they going to do with the body? stay tuned. we ll find out later today. let s go to the pentagon and jennifer griffin joins us with the very latest. everybody wants to know, yemen might take credit for it but it was probably a united states drone that did it, right? well, what s really interesting this morning is the silence coming from within the halls of the pentagon about how anwar al-awlaki was killed. we have confirmed with senior u.s. officials in different parts of the city that he was killed, that confirmation, you know, usually if they are not sure they re waiting for d.n.a. testing, they will they will not confirm, as you know, but it s interesting this building is so quiet. this suggests one of two things to me. it was either a c.i.a. run drone. we reported recently there are new bases in the arabian peninsula that have been built.
from new government banking regulations. other major banks expected to follow suit. if you think you can get away from it, you might not be able to. government shutdown averted at least until tuesday now. today, president obama expected to sign a stop gap spending bill approved by the house yesterday without any objection. it keeps the government funded until october 4th. congress is in recess so the session was attended by a few members. the house takes up the senate bill that would fund the government until november 18th when it returns from recess on monday. how about funding it for more than a few weeks? yeah, that would help. this is a fox news alert. the picture right there is of anwar al-awlaki. that man is dead. apparently, killed in an air strike about 87 miles from the capital city in yemen. this is the same guy the united states tarpthed with a drone attack on the 5th day of may on this year, five days after bin laden was taken out. we missed by a whisker. this time, who
extremely difficult to conquer an enemy as nebulous as a terror organization. now we ve devoted all of our resources, whether it s satellite, but increasingly human intelligence on the ground. there are plenty of people in yemen who don t like al-qaida, particularly now with all of the western leaning embattled president now trying to re-establish some kind of control there. he wants them dead, too. and now, they all have to know that if anyone has their cell phone number, if anybody has their computer code and anybody knows what kind of car they drive, if anybody knows what town they hang out at, ultimately, some bright kid some place is going to say, he s driving or that, too. or that, too. we know the 9/11 hijackers sometimes did go to so did this guy. now try to answer that, geraldo. we had casey mcfarland on a while ago, she said this fwie is
on the ground, i would imagine, in yemen. they might have been nearby and we had an analyst earlier who say we might have been following him in a vehicle so maybe they did get the body and who knows where he is today. put the bases in a couple of months ago. can i ask a question, what s left of the body after a drone strike? they got to be able to identify it. maybe not much. i m not sure. i mean, it s not like they have the body like they had of usama bin laden and they can wrap it in a cloth and put it into the ocean. i don t think that s going to be what the remains of this guy are going to be. you would think they d have more than d.n.a. material because that, you know, it takes a while to run a d.n.a. test. lieutenant colonel tony schaefer joins us, retired tony schaefer. lieutenant colonel, usually we talk to you about operations in pakistan, afghanistan but now we re able to tell you about a death in yemen. for this guy to be dead, how thick were those lines back to
him, will dress it up. but, you know, hearts and minds lost us two wars. we haven t found a general yet who will kill. c.i.a. is doing more killing. and we should just kill everybody in both countries? well, we should kill whoever we need to protect america as long as our foreign policy is going to remain the same. whatever advantages we get from killing al-awlaki today will be more than outdone when we veto palestinian application for statehood at the u.n. this is a game with many facets and killing one person at a time, i started doing that 15 years ago, sir and it hasn t worked yet. something that s different about killing this guy is michael, back in 2010, the president of the united states, barack obama, made him the first u.s. citizen ever placed on a c.i.a. target list. it was a kill or capture instruction. i m sure the c.i.a. has gotten more people outside this country before but for the first time an american citizen and there were