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Five years ago, President Obama took the extraordinary decision to target Anwar al-Awlaki, a charismatic American-born imam turned Al Qaeda terror plotter, for taking ...
Nov. 8, 2010— -- A new video featuring American-born radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki surfaced online today, in which he calls America "Satan" and urges Muslims to murder Americans.
Sept. 30, 2011 — -- When President Obama addressed the nation about the death of high-profile al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar al-Awlaki today, he said the drone strike that took out the ...
Of course, both Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan were, at the very least, traitors to their country — they had both gone to Yemen and taken up with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and al-Awlaki ...
In the first few months after the Sept. 11 attacks, Anwar al-Awlaki was also downplaying reports of "hate speech" at American mosques. His words back then may offer clues to his later actions.
In the days before a CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki last month, his 16-year-old son ran away from the family home in Yemen's capital of Sanaa to try to find him ...
With the exception of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki was the most fearsome member of al Qaeda ever faced by the United States. The American-born Awlaki preached jihad from Yemen and directed plot… ...
Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born cleric killed Friday, sought to use weapons of mass destruction to attack westerners in his role as chief of external operations for Al Qaeda in the Arabian ...
1971: Anwar al-Awkali is born to Yemeni parents in New Mexico. Seven years later, al-Awlaki and his family move to Yemen.1991: He returns to the United States to attend Colorado State University. H… ...
A recently resurfaced record reportedly shows that USAID paid for al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend Colorado State University when he was a student here in the '90s.
Al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son was reportedly killed in a similar strike in Yemen about two weeks later. It's unclear from the documents whether the embassy ever actually sought to contact Anwar Al ...
Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald have been having an interesting exchange about the Anwar al-Awlaki case. To review, the A.C.L.U. and the Center for Constitutional Rights are suing the Obama ...