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Coming in from all away the world. i think that was american troops responding to what has happened. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. jennifer. >> reporter: jon, a senior u.s. military official tells us this was a cia-led title 50 covert operation, it's done in conjunction with jsop, joint special operations command, it's the same configuration that carried out the bin laden raid without the ground forces attached. here's how president obama announced it earlier today: >> earlier this morning, anwar al-awlaki, a leader of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, was killed in yemen. the dea...

Including the harrier jets being used ran low on fuel. today the drones fired hellfire missiles. it's unclear if they took off from the arabian peninsula. we are told they tracked anwar al-awlaki after he left a safe house 40 miles from the saud sa- from the saudi bored. a 25-year-old from north carolina who served as anwar al-awlaki's webmaster. this is how they described his killing. a very bad man had a very bad day. it's a good day for counter terrorism cooperation with the government of yemen. for some time the yemenis have played a key role in the hunt for al-awlaki. the president of yem...

President, the defense depth and acli after an american born terror leader was taken out overseas. al-awlaki believed to have been the regional commander for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. he had been in direct contact with the army psychologist accused of the forwar -- of thed massacre. president obama praised the air strike that killed him. >> military sources confirm that it was two predator drones that fired hellfire missiles at convoy. one vehicle was hit. inside that vehicle were four people. one of the people was anwar al-awlaki. a source said we went back to

Jennifer, you know, is there worry inside the pentagon that -- just a -- well, of, i don't know, being sued? are they worried about the aclu, are they worried about challenges like that, and is that in some way something that now they have to worry about so much that maybe it's affecting their strategy? >> well, they certainly have a lot of legal minds looking at these issues as they do at the justice department. the pentagon will say this was not our operation, this was cia-led and done in conjunction with the joint special operation command, but it was a title 50 operation and there are diff...

From muslims around the world. the military is stepping up attacks on the militants with help from the u.s. hamish macdonald. >> reporter: with helicopter gun ships and u.s. intelligence support, iraq's military is trying to push isis out of city where saddam hussein was born. america has delivered 75 hellfire missiles to the iraqis to help bolster their offensive. that will only last around three days. still waiting for america to decide whether to send air strikes, iraq is trying to build its own air defenses. taking delivery of secondhand fighter jets from russia. the embattled military her...