With al-Awlaki dead, al-Qaida lacks Western voice

With al-Awlaki dead, al-Qaida lacks Western voice

The killings of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and another American al-Qaida propagandist in a U.S. airstrike Friday wipe out the decisive factor that made the terrorist group's Yemen branch the most dangerous threat to the United States: its reach into the West.