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Nasser al-Awlaki (Arabic: ناصر العولقي; 1946 – 28 September 2021) 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 .
Nasser Al-Awlaki sued U.S. officials over the killing of three Americans including his son in Yemen. The judge said the suit raises fundamental constitutional questions but there's no easy...
- 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 ...
Jul 18, 2013 · Because of an editing error, an Op-Ed on Thursday incorrectly described Anwar al-Awlaki, the writer’s son, at the time of a lawsuit challenging the government’s targeted-killing program.
Oct 14, 2011 · In 2012, Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar's father and Abdulrahman's grandfather, filed a lawsuit with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU against the US government over the killings.
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.
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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.
