NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-is-ki...
WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020413820457660230125234082...
Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/30/anwar-al-awlaki-al-qaida?new...
Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/anwar-al-aulaqi-us-born-...
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15121879
CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/30/world/africa/yemen-radical-cleric/inde...
ABC: http://abcnews.go.com/International/anwar-al-awlaki-killed-officials-yem...
This was the first CIA-run drone strike in Yemen since 2002. All previous strikes were carried out by the military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) or were cruise missiles launched from U.S. Navy vessels off the Yemeni coast.