This is terrible! We're going to have to put up with whining from the lefties for days...
IF this is one in the same individual, i.e. that he is al-Qaeda, went to school in California, was a taxi driver in Boston, is a natural born American citizen, has an alias nickname the same as his attorney's first name in Syria and Jordan, was perhaps let go by Amman, Jordan authorities only three weeks ago and--finally--has now met his fate in a desert east of Sa'ana, Yemen at the hands of hi-tech CIA and the Yemeni govt., this is a big story indeed.
Need to firm it up even more. Thanks to the Freepers scouring news sources, Western and Arabic alike!
No major news outlet in the US is making this connection yet, from what I can tell. But all the research points to the connection.