al-qaeda 2. o, this new generation of american recruits and anwar al lackie, along with samir kahn, were very good at using our technology against us, so whether they were e-mailing, blogging or skyping they were like the facebook friend from hell, they used social networking to spread this ideology of hate so, while we have the death of awlaki and samir kahn, what we also have is this virtual legacy that can live on without them, jenna. jenna: and because of that, we re seeing a picture of awlaki on the scrn,you heard oft might have changed the way that our defense forces were hunting him down? reporter: well, let s remember, both of these men were americans, and back in april 2010, president obama signed an executive order, a presidential order, for a title 50 operation, that s a covert cia-led operation, that put him out there, it basically gave the intelligence community and
resistance from pro-gadhafi forces. correspondents are reporting on the ground. cnn s sarah sidner is hunkered down in green square and matthew chance is in the city s hotel, the same hotel where senior libyan officials just fled moments ago. our first correspondent in tripoli, nic robertson, he is in our washington bureau and national security contributor, fran townsend is in new york and zain verjee is following international reaction from left knee done. dan lothian is with the president on martha s vineyard and barbara starr has the military perspective from the pentagon. all right. let s get to tripoli where all the action is right now. we ve been telling you about the fighting in and around green square. it s been a big symbol for the gadhafi regime. in fact, until recently, they ve been using it for big pro-government demonstrations. cnn s sarah sidner has been watching the rebel invasion and pretty heavy fighting as well. she fired this report before the rebels pull
the al-qaeda leadership made a decision to go after western and american recruits beau we were focused on the middle east and pakistan. and became the new gold standard and we have now a generation, i call it al-qaeda 2.0. in many respects they re the new version of the digital jihadists. so when you re talking about the fact that we ve historically said, well, a terrorist is probably going to be a muslim, may open the muslim east, if you don t fit the profile chances are you don t have to worry. because in the book you say that s no longer the model. that s right. the heart of this is actually an american citizen anwar al-awlaki, he s a digital jihad its, whether he s e-mailing or blogging or skyping, he s kind of like the facebook friend from hell. he s using the negotiate networking against us and spreading the ideology of hate. what s frightening there s a documented case of home grown
go after western recruits because we were young people from the middle east and afghanistan and pakistan. americans were the new gold standard and we have a generation al-qaida 2.0 and they are the new version of the digital jihadist. historically said terrorist are a muslim male and if you don t fit that profile you don t have to worry. in the book you say that is no longer the model. that s right. the american sudden al awaki. whether he is e-mailing or bloging or skyping he using technology and the facebook friend from hell. he spreads ideology to. there is a documented case was home grown terrorism since
go after western recruits because we were young people from the middle east and afghanistan and pakistan. americans were the new gold standard and we have a generation al-qaida 2.0 and they are the new version of the digital jihadist. historically said terrorist are a muslim male and if you don t fit that profile you don t have to worry. in the book you say that is no longer the model. that s right. the american sudden al awaki. whether he is e-mailing or bloging or skyping he using technology and the facebook friend from hell. he spreads ideology to. there is a documented case was home grown terrorism since