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SANAA (AFP) - – US-Yemeni radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi has called for the killing of Americans "without hesitation," in a video message posted on jihadist websites, US monitoring group SITE said on Monday.
 
"Do not consult anyone in killing Americans," Awlaqi said in the 23-minute video, according to SITE.
 
"Killing the devil does not need any fatwa (religious edict)," he added.
 
"It's either us or you," Awlaqi said, addressing Americans in the video which first surfaced on October 23 when one minute of footage was posted on jihadist forums.
 
Speaking in Arabic, Awlaqi appears sitting behind a desk with a sheathed dagger in his belt.
 
The cleric, who was charged last Tuesday in Yemen over alleged ties with Al-Qaeda and incitement to kill foreigners, is wanted in the United States on terrorism charges.
 
Washington has linked the young imam and son of a former Yemeni government minister to a shooting rampage last November at a US army base and to the botched Christmas Day alleged Al-Qaeda attack on a US airliner.
 
Prosecutors on Tuesday told a Yemeni court specialising in terrorism cases that Awlaqi had for months corresponded with Hisham Mohammed Assem, a Yemeni accused of shooting dead French energy contractor Jacques Spagnolo near Sanaa last month, encouraging him to kill foreigners.
 
The court, under mounting US pressure to fight Al-Qaeda after a foiled air cargo bomb plot, on Saturday ordered the arrest by any means Awlaqi for alleged links to Al-Qaeda.
 
The Yemen-based branch of Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility Friday for a parcel bomb plot last month and said it was behind the September downing of an American cargo plane in Dubai, according to SITE Intelligence Group.
 
The two parcels addressed to synagogues in Chicago and containing the lethal explosive PETN hidden in ink toner cartridges were uncovered in Dubai and Britain on October 28, sparking a global security alert.
 
Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and headquarters of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been under intense pressure from Washington to hunt down Awlaqi.
 
Awlaqi has not immediately been linked to the parcel bombs, but American officials have long accused him of instigating "terrorism" from Yemen, where he is believed to be hiding in a remote area of Shabwa.
 
"Mr. Awlaqi is a problem," US Homeland Security and Counterrorism Adviser John Brennan said in January.
 
"He's clearly a part of Al-Qaeda in (the) Arabian Peninsula. He's not just a cleric. He is in fact trying to instigate terrorism," said Brennan.
 
He directly accused Awlaqi of having links with Major Nidal Hasan who is suspected of shooting dead 13 people at Fort Hood military base in Texas and said he also have had contact with Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to blow up the Christmas Day plane.
 
"What Nidal Hasan did was heroic... and I call on all Muslims serving in the US army to follow his path," Awlaqi said in a video posted by AQAP on jihadist websites in May.
 
"Nidal Hasan is one of my students and I am honoured by that," he said in the video.
 
Awlaqi also defended Abdulmutallab, saying the operation he carried out "was very successful even though it did not even kill anyone."
 
"Those who were to be killed in the plane are nothing compared to... a million women and children in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan," whom he accused the US military of having killed.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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