Anwar al-Awlaki

Obama’s controversial drone strikes

February 9, 2013 | Opinion, PerryScope

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Kaleidoscope By Perry Diaz Criticized by Republicans for “leading from behind” during the Libyan revolution, President Barack Obama is now being criticized by his Democratic party mates for his use of unmanned drones in targeting and killing known al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, Yemen, and other countries where they’re based.  And one of his unlikely supporters turns out to be – are you ready? – Read More …

US Launched Deadly Drone Strike From Saudi Arabia: Reports

February 9, 2013 | Politics & Government

The MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft. (U.S. Air Force)

By LEE FERRAN  ABC NEWS The CIA used a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia to launch the September 2011 strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-profile American member of al Qaeda, according to reports. The purported existence of the drone base in the Middle Eastern nation was revealed in a pair of reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post today, a Read More …

Was Obama’s order to kill al Qaida cleric an assassination?

October 3, 2011 | Politics & Government

By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Lawyers signed off on the targeted killing of Anwar al Awlaki, the radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric whose violent death provokes fresh questions about right and wrong in wartime. Rules, after all, still apply even when the missiles start flying. The Obama administration considers Awlaki’s killing the justified elimination of a proven national security threat. Critics, including Republican presidential Read More …

‘A Due Process in War’

October 3, 2011 | Opinion

Editorial of The New York Sun October 2, 2011 In respect of the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, this newspaper is with our friends at the Wall Street Journal, who issued over the weekend a particularly well-put editorial saying that the administration deserves our congratulations and our thanks. Our view is that America is at war. The war began the moment we were attacked — that Read More …

Killed by Same Unit That Got Bin Laden: Details About the Operation that Killed Anwar al-Awlaki

October 1, 2011 | Politics & Government

by Jonathon M. Seidl The Blaze WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The same U.S. military unit that got Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen on Friday to kill an American-born cleric suspected of inspiring or helping plan numerous attacks on the United States, including the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up a jetliner, U.S. and Yemeni officials said. Anwar al-Awlaki was Read More …