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  1. Anwar al-Awlaki. Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki ( Arabic: أنور العولقي, romanized : Anwar al-'Awlaqī; April 21 or 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American-Yemeni Islamic scholar, lecturer, and jihadist who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama.

  2. May 7, 2024 · Anwar al-Awlaki (born April 21, 1971, Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.—died September 30, 2011, Al-Jawf province, Yemen) 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 ...

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  3. Oct 3, 2011 · How did the U.S. government kill the al Qaeda leader in Yemen in 2011? What were the implications for counterterrorism cooperation, drone strikes, and legal justification? Read the analysis by Micah Zenko.

  4. Feb 10, 2022 · On the day al-Awlaki was killed, September 3, 2011, DOD’s Armed Forces Press Service reported, “A U.S. airstrike that killed Yemeni-based terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki early this morning is a ...

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  6. Sep 30, 2011 · A profile of the radical American Muslim cleric of Yemeni descent, who was linked to several attacks and plots against the US and its allies. He was killed in a US drone strike in 2011 after surviving several attempts on his life.

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  7. Aug 27, 2015 · T ype ‘‘Anwar al-Awlaki’’ into YouTube’s search bar, and you get 40,000 hits. Most of them bring up the earnest, smiling face and placid voice of the first American citizen to be hunted ...

  8. Sep 27, 2021 · The article examines the legal and constitutional implications of the US drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born al-Qaeda leader in Yemen in 2011. It questions the secrecy, evidence, and precedent of the executive branch's extrajudicial killing of an American citizen.

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