December 2, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Obama lawyers: Citizens targeted if at war with US 01 Nov 2011 U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets when they take up arms with ‘al-Qaida,’ top national security lawyers in the Obama regime said Thursday. The lawyers were asked at a national security conference about the CIA killing of [...]
Tag: anwar al awlaki
December 2, 2011
October 20, 2011
Two Awlaki teenage relatives killed in Yemen attack: family
October 19, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Two Awlaki teenage relatives killed in Yemen attack: family 18 Oct 2011 Two relatives of an assassinated U.S.-born militant cleric who were killed in an air strike last week in southern Yemen were teenagers out for dinner with friends when they were hit, their family said in a statement [...]
October 9, 2011
Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen
October 8, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen 09 Oct 2011 The Obama administration’s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive, [...]
October 7, 2011
Secret panel can put Americans on ‘kill list’
October 6, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis White House death panel, fully operational: Secret panel can put Americans on ‘kill list’ 05 Oct 2011 American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. [...]
October 2, 2011
Anwar al-Awlaki obituary
Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been killed at the age of 40 by missiles fired from an American unmanned drone in Yemen, was an effective propagandist for radical Islam and a key figure in the dissemination of the message of al-Qaida and related groups. With his fluent English, grasp of contemporary western culture and ability to [...]
October 1, 2011
How Anwar al-Awlaki was sheltered by a sultan in lawless southern Yemen
The sultan of the Awalik tribe was tall, old and frail, but his soft voice carried the weight of tribal authority: his pronouncements are adhered to by almost 2 million Awalik tribesmen. Sultan Fareed is a close ally of the government, but when I met him in August 2010, his tribe was also giving shelter [...]
October 1, 2011
Al-Qaida cleric death: mixed emotions at Virginia mosque where he preached
At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, the killing of the influential al-Qaida figure drew a knot of conflicting emotions about the man who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism. Many worshippers at Dar al-Hijrah for Friday services said they were glad [...]
October 1, 2011
October 1, 2011
Death of Anwar Al Awlaki Doesn’t Solve Yemen’s Problems
As a well-known scholar and English-speaking orator, Anwar al Awlaki was a big deal for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist organization he represented in Yemen. His death on Friday, now a high-profile international news story, was also significant as his group lost a powerful asset on the public stage. But, according to [...]
September 30, 2011
Anwar al-Awlaki’s extrajudicial murder | Michael Ratner
Is this the world we want? Where the president of the United States can place an American citizen, or anyone else for that matter, living outside a war zone on a targeted assassination list, and then have him murdered by drone strike. This was the very result we at the Center for Constitutional Rights and [...]