By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
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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