Search results
Nasser al-Awlaki ( Arabic: ناصر العولقي; 1946 – 28 September 2021 [1]) was a Yemeni scholar and politician. He was the father of Anwar and grandfather of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who were killed in separate U.S. drone strikes.
- 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 ...
Nasser Al-Awlaki sued administration officials personally for the killing of his son and al-Qaida cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, his grandson and another American. His lawyers argued the...
Overview. Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S.-Yemeni dual citizen and longtime cleric, propagandist, and operative for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). * On September 30, 2011, Awlaki was targeted and killed in Yemen in the first U.S. drone strike to deliberately target a U.S. citizen.
Nasser al-Awlaki is the father of Anwar and grandfather of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki stated he believed his son had been wrongly accused and was not a member of Al Qaeda.
Al-Awlaki, who had dual US-Yemeni citizenship, was killed yesterday morning five outside Kashef in the al-Jawf Province, 90 miles east of Sanaa, the capital, in what is believed to have been a...
People also ask
Who is Dr Nasser Awlaqi?
Who is Nasser al-Awlaki?
Who was Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki?
Does death of Anwar al Awlaki solve Yemen's problems?
By killing Anwar al-Awlaki, a highly influential radical cleric, in 2011 the United States hoped to deal a blow to weaken terrorist forces by decapitating al-Qaeda’s inspirational recruitment influence.
