So much for holiness and disdain for the vices of the west.
CNN reports that in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, FBI agents surveilled U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and found he was visiting prostitutes.
The network reports Al-Awlaki lived in a Washington suburb at the time and visited prostitutes at least seven times and paid up to $400 for sex.
The information was obtained through a Freedom of Information request by the Judicial Watch, a consevative watch-dog group.
Al-Awlaki was killed in 2011 in Yemen in a U.S. missile strike.
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