Sanaa:
US-Yemeni radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi has called for the killing of Americans "without hesitation," in a video message posted on jihadist websites, US monitoring group SITE said on Monday.
"Do not consult anyone in killing Americans," Awlaqi said in the 23-minute video, according to SITE. "Killing the devil does not need any fatwa (religious edict)," he added.
"It's either us or you," Awlaqi said, addressing Americans in the video which first surfaced on October 23 when one minute of footage was posted on jihadist forums.
Speaking in Arabic, Awlaqi appears sitting behind a desk with a sheathed dagger in his belt.
The cleric, who was charged last Tuesday in Yemen over alleged ties with Al-Qaida and incitement to kill foreigners, is wanted in the United States on terrorism charges.
Washington has linked the young imam and son of a former Yemeni government minister to a shooting rampage last November at a US army base and to the botched Christmas Day alleged Al-Qaida attack on a US airliner.
Prosecutors on Tuesday told a Yemeni court specialising in terrorism cases that Awlaqi had for months corresponded with Hisham Mohammed Assem, a Yemeni accused of shooting dead French energy contractor Jacques Spagnolo near Sanaa last month, encouraging him to kill foreigners.
The court, under mounting US pressure to fight Al-Qaida after a foiled air cargo bomb plot, on Saturday ordered the arrest by any means Awlaqi for alleged links to Al-Qaida.
"Do not consult anyone in killing Americans," Awlaqi said in the 23-minute video, according to SITE. "Killing the devil does not need any fatwa (religious edict)," he added.
"It's either us or you," Awlaqi said, addressing Americans in the video which first surfaced on October 23 when one minute of footage was posted on jihadist forums.
Speaking in Arabic, Awlaqi appears sitting behind a desk with a sheathed dagger in his belt.
The cleric, who was charged last Tuesday in Yemen over alleged ties with Al-Qaida and incitement to kill foreigners, is wanted in the United States on terrorism charges.
Washington has linked the young imam and son of a former Yemeni government minister to a shooting rampage last November at a US army base and to the botched Christmas Day alleged Al-Qaida attack on a US airliner.
Prosecutors on Tuesday told a Yemeni court specialising in terrorism cases that Awlaqi had for months corresponded with Hisham Mohammed Assem, a Yemeni accused of shooting dead French energy contractor Jacques Spagnolo near Sanaa last month, encouraging him to kill foreigners.
The court, under mounting US pressure to fight Al-Qaida after a foiled air cargo bomb plot, on Saturday ordered the arrest by any means Awlaqi for alleged links to Al-Qaida.
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