Save the clerics!

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.

I'd save the Cleric but I'm not a Fighter~

"because Awlaki is an American, his inclusion on the death list had to be approved by the National Security Council, US officials told The New York Times...

...'We take direct actions against terrorists,' he said. 'If we think direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that.'"

"'The United States works, exactly as the American people expect, to overcome threats to their security, and this individual - through his own actions - has become one.'"

He's been put on a CIA target list to be either captured or killed because he's pretty much the definition of a terrorist, and there is no specific order for assassination, more like a "dead or alive" caveat.