Reply #10: Yeminia-American Targeted for Assassination [View All]

[pmorlan1]

I just found this AP piece on the Huffington Post and their reporting shows that it was the U.S. who killed al-Awlaki not the Yemini forces. We killed a Yemeni-American without the rule of law. He was born in America yet he received no trial and never got a chance to face his accuser to respond to whatever evidence they were using against him. I find this frightening that our government thinks it's ok to target Americans for assassination.

In a statement, the Yemeni government said al-Awlaki was "targeted and killed" 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the town of Khashef in the Province of al-Jawf. The town is located 87 miles (140 kilometers) east of the capital Sanaa.

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The operation was run by the U.S. military's elite counterterrorism unit, the Joint Special Operations Command – the same unit that got bin Laden. JSOC has worked closely with Yemeni counterterrorism forces for years, in the fight against al-Qaida.

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The 40-year-old al-Awlaki had been in the U.S. crosshairs since his killing was approved by President Barack Obama in April 2010 – making him the first American placed on the CIA "kill or capture" list.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/anwar-alawlaki-usborn-mus_n_988397.html