Awlaki Target of UAV Airstrike In Yemen
The UAV airstrike in Yemen was targeting Ansar al Awlaki, who is one of the leading religious ideologues in al Qaeda and one if its top recruiters (Fort Hood, Times Square, Christmas day bomber). The airstrike apparently missed Awlaki.
Coming on the heels of the bin Laden raid, one could suspect that the targeting may have been inspired by the terabytes of data recovered in the bin Laden raid, but Pentagon officials state that the raid was not based on the bin Laden raid info.