This story does not make sense. And the fact that CBS News revised the original version of this story ( [link to www.cbsnews.com] ) also smells.

In the original version (which was a link on Drudge early Friday morning), the third paragraph said:

"A U.S. government official confirms to CBS News senior security correspondent David Martin that al-Awlaki was killed. Yemen's Defense Ministry was first to tell CBS News of the strike, but given previous reports which turned out to be erroneous, the relatively rapid U.S. confirmation is crucial, and bolsters witness accounts that it was a U.S. drone strike that killed the al Qaeda figure."

So, they admit that al-Awlaki has pulled a Mark Twain in the past - "the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" - so now it is important that the US quickly confirm the kill? Why the rush?

Then in the original version of the story, the tenth paragraph said "CBS News' Khaled Wassef says Al-Awlaki was first reported dead following U.S. air strikes on southern Yemen in December 2009, and then again in November 2010. He was also the target of a U.S. drone attack that killed two al Qaeda operatives in southern Yemen on May 5, 2011."

Sounds like the Steven Seagal movie from 1990 - "HARD TO KILL".