by Erik Kain on October 6, 2011
When Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen and radical Muslim, was killed by US special ops in Yemen recently many Americans assumed the kill was authorized by president Obama. This was either praised as bold foreign policy or decried as a bridge too far depending on where you turned. But the story might actually be much [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 30, 2011
Adam Serwer has some good background on the case of Al-Qaeda-linked radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki who has reportedly been killed by US special ops in Yemen. As Kevin Drum notes, this is the first US citizen assassinated abroad by the US government, and the second killed in the war on terror. The Bush administration killed [...]
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