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Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (Arabic: أنور العولقي, romanized: Anwar al-'Awlaqī; April 21 or 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American-Yemeni lecturer, and jihadist who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki became the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and ...
May 7, 2024 · Anwar al-Awlaki (born April 21, 1971, Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.—died September 30, 2011, Al-Jawf province, Yemen) was an American Islamic preacher and al-Qaeda terrorist killed by a controversial U.S. drone attack.
- Jarret Brachman
Aug 27, 2015 · Here is Awlaki on what makes a good marriage; on the nature of paradise; on Jesus Christ, considered a prophet by Muslims; on tolerance; on the holy month of Ramadan; and, more quirkily, on ...
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- Scott Shane
Sep 30, 2011 · A profile of the radical American Muslim cleric of Yemeni descent, who was linked to several attacks and plots against the US and its allies. He was killed in a US drone strike in 2011 after surviving several attempts on his life.
- The Recruiter
- Two Narratives
- Spiritual Adviser
- Prostitutes and Other Indulgences
Al-Awlaki speaks fluent English and in the last few years al-Qaeda relied on him to provide the ideological framework for new recruits to join its global jihad, which he did primarily through his internet blog and lectures. Through a series of email exchanges, U.S. investigators said, al-Awlaki allegedly counselled a U.S. army psychiatrist named Ni...
There are two narratives that surround al-Awlaki’s rise through the ranks of global jihad. His own version is that he was obliged, according to the tenets of his faith, to join al-Qaeda after the U.S. attacked the Muslim nations of Iraq and Afghanistan and intervened in Pakistan and Yemen. But investigators working with the Sept. 11 commission sugg...
What the Pentagon didn't know when it promoted al-Awlaki as a moderate imam in the weeks after 9/11, inviting him for lunch as part of an outreach program to American Muslims, was that he was the "spiritual adviser" to three of the Sept. 11 hijackers with whom he had many "closed-door meetings." 9/11 investigators believe hijackers Hani Hanjour, Kh...
Al-Awlaki’s ability to speak the Arabic language and to quote the Qur'an and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, coupled with his charismatic style of delivery, made him a darling in his own community and a much sought after speaker at Islamic conferences in North America and Europe. In the late 1990s, his lectures on DVDs, CDs and cassettes were ...
Oct 3, 2011 · How did the U.S. government kill the al Qaeda leader in Yemen in 2011? What were the implications for counterterrorism cooperation, drone strikes, and legal justification? Read the analysis by Micah Zenko.
Feb 10, 2022 · Following Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the Obama administration released a 2010 Justice Department memo signing off on killing Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American citizen, without a trial.
