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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 a Yemeni-American Islamic lecturer, Imam and Jihadist who was murdered in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama.
Sep 27, 2021 · On September 30, 2011, a hunting party of US drones found its quarry while flying over the desert in Yemen. They fired Hellfire missiles at the vehicle carrying Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico–born, firebrand cleric, whom the Barack Obama administration accused of being an operational leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Jul 12, 2024 · Anwar al-Awlaki was an American Islamic preacher and al-Qaeda terrorist killed by a controversial U.S. drone attack. One of the United States’ most-wanted terrorists, Awlaki was directly linked to multiple terrorism plots in the United States and United Kingdom, including an attempt in December.
Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki sheds light upon the Quran, hadeeth and the seerah (particularly the first 13 years in Makkah) and presents lessons to the daiee in order to strengthen his or her methods of conveying the message of Islam to the West.
Aug 27, 2015 · ‘‘Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of the Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen — gone,’’ Obama said to applause. The government has a portentous euphemism — ‘‘removed from the battlefield’’ — for the targeted...
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...
Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S.-Yemeni dual citizen and longtime cleric, propagandist, and operative for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). * On September 30, 2011, Awlaki was targeted and killed in Yemen in the first U.S. drone strike to deliberately target a U.S. citizen.
