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Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi, Arabic: عبدالرحمن العولقي; August 26, 1995 – October 14, 2011) was a 16-year-old United States citizen who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen. He was the son of Anwar al-Awlaki.
But Abdulrahman al-Awlaki wasn't on an American kill list. Nor was he a member of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninusla.
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 alleged 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 ...
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.
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Awlaki's killing came just two weeks after his father, Anwar, was also killed in a US drone strike. That time, however, the US had intended to kill Anwar, who they accused of being a high-level al-Qaeda operative. He was the first US citizen to be targeted and killed in the US drone programme. In 2012, Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar's father and Abdulrahm...
LaHood noted that the two drone strikes which killed father and son had brought the issue of the lethal strike programme to national attention. "The case definitely put a spotlight on drone killings and focused attention on the US policy behind them, and forced some transparency and information being released around the killings," she said. After t...
Just like Awlaki, thousands of civilians have been killed as a result of US bombings. According to a reportreleased last month by the group Airwars, at least 22,679 people have been killed as a result of US air and drone strikes in the 20 years of the "war on terror". That number could even be as high as 48,308 civilians, the large gap between the ...
Oct 18, 2011 · Anwar al-Awlaki was a member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and wrote angry and ugly sermons for them. The Administration says that it had to kill him because he had become...
Oct 3, 2011 · Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric with ties to al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate, gives a sermon in an undisclosed location in October 2008. After covert military operations are...
