Americans Warned of Possible Retaliation
HENDRICKS: Welcome back. As we wait to get back that signal of President Obama in Washington, D.C., we have other news for you. The U.S. government believes the killing of a high-level Al Qaeda leader in Yemen could provoke revenge attacks against Americans. A CIA drone attack is credited with killing an American-born cleric, Anwar al- Awlaki and several others too. The FBI and the State Department are warning the killing could incite anti-American attacks inside the U.S., also around the world. A government official says al-Awlaki has been under surveillance in Yemen for two weeks when the opportunity arose to kill him with a missile. Another American who is among those killed in Friday's drone strikes, Samir Khan. He was considered vital to Al Qaeda's efforts and produced an on-line English language magazine called Inspire. Khan used to live in Charlotte, North Carolina. Molly Graham of our affiliate of WBTV spoke to people who knew him and asked this how she was able to track down Khan last November but the federal government could not.</s>MOLLY GRAHAM, REPORTER, WBTV (voice-over): We started off by ringing the door bell of Samir Kahn's parents house. No answer. So we talked with Jibril Hough, he is the spokesperson for the family.</s>JIBRIL HOUGH, FAMILY FRIEND: As you can imagine if it was your child, a number of emotions, embarrassed. Frustrated.</s>GRAHAM: he said the ideology that Samir promoted and wrote about was wrong. He said Samir was dangerous but he won't take the next step. (on camera): Was Samir a terrorist?</s>HOUGH: That's a good question. He definitely was a terrorist supporter.</s>GRAHAM: But you wouldn't say he was a terrorist?</s>HOUGH: Did he actually commit an act of terror? You know, I don't think it's ever been proven that he has.</s>GRAHAM: Would propaganda, the words he used against people online, would that not be considered an act of terror?</s>HOUGH: I don't know, because he was doing the same thing while he was here.</s>GRAHAM: So he was backyard terrorist while he was here.</s>HOUGH: While he was here, I would say he should have been arrested and tried for that.</s>GRAHAM (voice-over): The federal government might agree with him on that one. At one point Kahn was listed as the number two guy in Al Qaeda when it came to propaganda. Last year U.S. representative Sue Myrick said she couldn't believe we could track them down yet they couldn't. If he was the number two guy, how did they let him get away, move from Charlotte, hop on a plane, go to Yemen, when I could find him in a parking lot?</s>REP. SUE MYRICK: I know Molly those, it's crazy. And that's the same - those are questions I'm asking right now.</s>GRAHAM (voice-over): Jibril said he tried to council Samir years ago as with other Muslim-Americans in the Charlotte community, including Samir's own father. It didn't work. Even so Jibril says this is not a day to celebrate. (on camera): There are some Americans who say this is a huge day to rejoice, because he was dangerous, he was a terrorist and now he's taken out along with al-Awlaki.</s>HOUGH: Yes, but I'm not one who rejoices in the loss of a human life, regardless if they had it coming or not.</s>HENDRICKS: Our thanks to Molly Graham in Charlotte, North Carolina. Checking some of our top stories, police in New York arrested at least 50 Wall Street protesters as they blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. Hundreds of protesters chanted, "Whose bridge? Our bridge," as they walk on both the pedestrian, vehicle levels. Those arrested were charged with disorderly conduct and blocking traffic. 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