Anwar Al-Awlaki is the smooth, English-speaking voice of Al-Qaeda who pops up on occasion and makes the usual death to the Jews, infidels and anyone else we don't like pronouncements is in the spotlight. Not because he is in a unique position to take the reigns of Al-Qaeda, but that he has been caught in a sting where his true colors came out. His words betray him, and we need to pay attention to them.
From
The Sun May 7 by Simon Hughes
New Osama urges UK terror blitz
Terror mastermind ... Anwar al-Awlaki
Yemen-based Anwar al-Awlaki - tipped as Osama Bin Laden's successor - urged a Mumbai-style massacre after being duped by a Sun sting.
Security services were last night studying our dossier on his drive to recruit fanatics in the UK over the internet.
He said in an email: "The options that you have for operations could be pipe bombs, assassinations or using a firearm at a location crowded with enemies."
The last suggestion is a clear reference to the Mumbai massacre in which 164 people were killed when terrorist gunmen went on the rampage in the Indian city in 2008.
The Sun contacted warlord Awlaki - widely tipped to become al-Qaeda's global leader following the killing of Osama Bin Laden - in an email sting.
It confirmed the threat he poses to innocent British citizens. It showed the ease with which a determined extremist can link up with him.
And it provided a grim insight into how al-Qaeda can recruit disciples through the internet.
Awlaki, 40, has already engineered a string of attempted outrages here and in the US.
He brainwashed 21-year-old student Roshonara Choudhry into stabbing Labour MP Stephen Timms over his support for the war in Iraq.
And he urged British Airways computer worker Rajib Karim, 31 - now in jail - to assist in a plot to blow up an airliner in a Lockerbie-style attack.
Here are two of the purported emails, the first to Al-Awlaki and the second is his reply.
Undercover ... Sun investigation emails
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