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Anwar al-Awlaki

Early life

Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico in the United States in 1971 to parents from Yemen, while his father was doing graduate work at U.S. universities. His father, Nasser al-Awlaki, was a Fulbright Scholar

In 1978, when al-Awlaki was seven years old, he returned with his family to Yemen.[18][51] He lived in Yemen for 11 years, where he studied at Azal Modern School.

In 1991, al-Awlaki returned to the U.S. state of Colorado to attend college. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University (1994), where he was president of the Muslim Student Association.[52] He attended the university on a foreign student visa and a government scholarship from Yemen, claiming to be born in that country,

He spent a summer of his college years training with the Afghan mujahideen.

Soon after his return to the U.S. in 1990 to attend college, al-Awlaki applied for a Social Security number, falsely giving his birthplace as Yemen rather than the U.S.

Al-Awlaki had listed Yemen rather than the United States as his place of birth on his 1990 application for a U.S. Social Security number, soon after arriving in the US. "The bizarre thing is if you put Yemen down (on the application), it would be harder to get a Social Security number than to say you are a native-born citizen of Las Cruces", Gaouette said.[2]

Al-Awlaki used this documentation to obtain a passport in 1993. He later corrected his place of birth to Las Cruces, New Mexico.

The New York Times suggested later that al-Awlaki had claimed birth in Yemen (his family's place of origin) to qualify for scholarship money granted to foreign citizens

sounds like another fine citizen .... one who uses his nationality to get a free ride, then turns against the country that gave him so much..



Following the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 incident David Barron and Martin Lederman, lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, were tasked to declare whether deliberately killing Awlaki, despite his citizenship, would be lawful, assuming it was not feasible to capture him.[208] Confronted by 18 U.S.C § 1119 which states that "A person who, being a national of the United States, kills or attempts to kill a national of the United States while such national is outside the United States but within the jurisdiction of another country shall be punished" both lawyers discovered a 1997 U.S. district court decision. The case involved a woman who was charged with killing her child in Japan. The district court judge handling the case ruled that the terse overseas-killing law must be interpreted as incorporating the exceptions of its domestic-murder counterpart, writing, “Congress did not intend to criminalize justifiable or excusable killings.”[208] Both lawyers concluded that the foreign-killing statute would not impede a drone strike by arguing that it is not unlawful “murder” when the U.S. government kills an enemy leader in war or national self-defense.

In January 2010, White House lawyers considered the legality of attempting to kill al-Awlaki, given his U.S. citizenship. Opportunities to do so "may have been missed" because of legal questions surrounding such an attack.[203] But on February 4, 2010, New York Daily News reported that al-Awlaki was "now on a targeting list signed off on by the Obama administration"

considering his connections to terrorism in the United States. his claims of foreign birth, and the fact that there was significant legal discussion before shooting on a vehicle with enemy combatants.. I am certainly ok with his untimely death..


to read more..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
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