SANAA (Reuters) - Islamist forum members expressed disbelief that a CIA drone killed the U.S.-born preacher Anwar al-Awlaki on Friday, but said if al Qaeda confirmed the death he would be remembered as a "great martyr".
The bespectacled Awlaki, who spoke fluent idiomatic English and Arabic, was identified by U.S. intelligence as "chief of external operations" for al Qaeda's Yemen branch and a Web-savvy propagandist for the Islamist cause.
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