Anwar al-Awlaki Killed In Yemen Air Strike

[Hobbes]

Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki -- whose fluency in English and technology made him one of the top terrorist recruiters in the world -- was killed in Friday airstrike in Yemen, officials said.

Al-Awlaki's death, confirmed by U.S. and Yemeni officials, dealt yet another dramatic blow to an al Qaeda network still reeling from the killing and capture of several top leaders this year, most notably Osama bin Laden.

U.S. officials say al-Awlaki -helped recruit Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian man known as the underwear bomber, who was charged with trying to blow up a transatlantic flight as it landed in Detroit on December 25, 2009.

The militant cleric is also said to have exchanged e-mails with accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hassan, who is accused of killing a dozen fellow soldiers and a civilian in a rampage at the Texas Army post.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/30/world/africa/yemen-radical-cleric/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


It's noteworthy that he was a US citizen although in my mind he forfeited his citizenship when he declared war on America.

 

[Glocktogo]

Once again, kudos to Nobel peace prize winner Barack Hussein Obama for an extralegal military assassination well done!

 

[.45Fats]

Once again, kudos to Nobel peace prize winner Barack Hussein Obama for an extralegal military assassination well done!

it wasn't extralegal military assassination...there was reliable intel that he was holding WMDs in his rectum at the time.

moral of the story don't argue when the nice TSA man wants to give you an "enhanced" pat down.


(did I miss any hotpoints??? damn...nothing about him being unemployed and drawing welfare...maybe next time they kill one)

 

[cjjtulsa]

Good riddance.

 

[KOPBET]

Once again, kudos to Nobel peace prize winner Barack Hussein Obama for an extralegal military assassination well done!

For once I agree with Ron Paul on this one. Extralegal military assassination of an American citizen.

Good riddance, but so long US Constitution.

 

[Mr10mm]

We need to carpet bomb that whole country.



http://youtu.be/V_79VsTLeO8

 

[vvvvvvv]

As much as I disagree with it, there wasn't anything extralegal about it under domestic law. International law is a little grey there, though.

 

[reddog1]

Another ghost gone. Didn't they kill him already?

 

[VIKING]

Got his buddy with him...

 

[donner]

"I don't think that's a good way to deal with our problems," Paul told reporters. "Al-Awlaki was born here; he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it's sad.

"I think what would people have said about Timothy McVeigh? We didn't assassinate him, who we were pretty certain that he had done it. Went and put through the courts then executed him. To start assassinating American citizens without charges, we should think very seriously about this."

Here is Ron Paul's quote from an NPR news article