president returned to the country and is looking for the united states help to keep him in power, and some of this was political in nature. sure. absolutely. in fact, the u.s. government discouraged him from returning to yemen, as did the saudi government. we know that from officials in both governments. he went back anyway. he is looking for support. we don t know whether or not the united states was directly involved in the killing, the yemeni government does not have the capability without u.s. assistance to get this done. fran townsend, hope you ll still around. many more questions. live to istanbul to check in with mohammed jamjoom who has information about exactly where al awlaki was killed. good morning. reporter: good morning, christine. we re told by the yemeni embassy in washington, d.c. that the operation that killed anwar al awlaki was killed out in a province of yemen about 140 kilometers from the capital, from sanaa. interesting, because anwar alky was be