The American-born Islamic cleric who had ties to everything from 9-11 to Maj Nidal Hassan’s murderous rampage at Ft. Hood is done. He has assumed room temperature thanks to a US drone strike.
The same U.S. military counterterrorism unit that got Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen on Friday to kill the U.S.-born cleric suspected of inspiring or helping plan numerous attacks on the United States, including the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up a jetliner, U.S. and Yemeni officials said.
Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a strike on his convoy directed by the CIA and carried out with the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command’s firepower, according to a counterterrorist official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.
His death will deal al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula a serious blow, particularly, says CBS News terrorism analyst Juan Zarate, his work to draw young Muslims into the jihadi mindset.
“His role as a propagandist actually will be very difficult to fill,” says Zarate.
Awlaki was American by birth and used his knowledge of the US, and sermons in colloquial English, to radicalize and inspire would-be terrorists. He also used the Internet to keep in contact with them, from his hideaway in Yemen. More to come.
More: Erick Stakelback looks at how Awlaki was able to influence young jihadis.
–Awlaki’s huge ideological influence on the global jihad was seen on YouTube, where he was a sensation, and in the massive movement of DVD’s and CD’s featuring his sermons. In short, he was a jihadi rock star. Look no further than northern Virginia, where I broke the story in June 2010 for CBN News that the largest Islamic supermarket in the Washington, D.C. area was selling dozens of Awlaki’s DVD’s and CD’s. As the owner of the store told me on camera: “They are very good sellers.” And just minutes from the nation’s capital. What a comforting thought. I talk about Awlaki’s influence at length in my book, The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You About the Islamist Threat.
–Unlike another American-born Al Qaeda propagandist, Adam Gadahn (aka “Azzam the American”), Awlaki, who was an imam at mosques in San Diego and northern Virginia before leaving the U.S. in 2002, had major religious street cred in the radical Islamic world. In my conversation last year in London with Al Qaeda-linked, global terrorist Saad al-Faqih, he went out of his way to praise Awlaki as a religious scholar. Al Faqih, a former associate of Osama Bin Laden, would not offer such praise lightly. I believe that Awlaki’s unique blend of Westernized media savvy and religious gravitas make him, in many respects, even more difficult for Al Qaeda to replace at this stage than Osama Bin Laden.
More at the link.
More: The morally confused Glenn Greenwald wails upon the death of a dual citizen who exploited his command of English to successfully exhort young Muslims to wage war against the United States within our territory.
More: Read Patrick Poole’s posts on Awlaki, Capitol Hill and the media.
Someone’s not coming down for breakfast.
Good for the CIA and the military. Obama victory dance to begin in 3…2….1.
His little PR puppet, “Inspire” publisher Samir Khan, also bit it in the same strike. A great day!
More on that here.
He go boom!
His mistake: if he had been in America we would have offered him free and unlimited vacation time in the five stars hotel in Guantanamo.
And the DoJ would have defended him against those Rambo types of the CIA.
Al Wacked.
I hope they inscribed his Miranda Rights On that Hellfire!
That, or the antiwar civil rights community will be outraged into a frenzy… You know; signs of MoveOn! and Obama as Hitler, burnings in effigy, accusations of Trampling the Constitution(tm) and “Cowboy Nazi!” by tens of thousands in SF, LA, NYC, London, Paris, and Berlin…
Oh wait! GWB is no longer president, and al Awlaki wasn’t some foreign terrorist from an oppressed nation crushed under the jackboot of American Imperialism… Never mind.
yes the same thoughts occured to me as well- where are the protestors, the Code Pinkos crying for “justice” & civilian trials, Obama’s head in a noose for war crimes? oh yeah- doesn’t fit the hate Bush, blame Bush narrative or the Obama can do no wrong picture.
Traitor made a crater. Knocked him off.
Traitor made a crater. Knocked him off.
Congrats to our dictator. We mashed him like a tater.
Traitor made a crater. To drone operators our hats are doffed.
No more hatin’ on the West.
Spreading Islam and splodey vests.
USA tolled your bell.
So now go burn in Hell where there ain’t no virgin women just Hellfire like in Yemen and if the truth I would tell the worst part is the Hippie smell as the price you have to pay, now, forever, and a day.
Traitor made a crater. He got offed.
DohXs I love it. and to all of those IDIOTS who think because he was an american we shouldn’t have blown him away. take an airborn leap at a rotating peirced peice of pastry. anyone who takes up arms against America should be blown away and the sooner the better,
They’ll be arguing about the Constitution and al-Awlaki’s citizenship (which he spit on) for years, but the fact is another facilitator of serial murder is dead and can do no more harm (well, except for the DVDs and CDs). It’s also another body blow to fanatic Islam, so personally, I’m pleased with the outcome.
Piss be upon him
After the HellFire hit the convoy he was alot hotter than room temperature for several minutes. I know Ron Paul has condemned the strike as anti constitutional, but this is where Mr Paul and I part company. This scum was a traitor and was operating as an enemy of the US using a foreign land as a refuge. He was responsible for military attacks that occured on US soil. He had enemy combatant status. I applaud the administration for authorizing the strike that killed him. It is one of the few things Obama has done correctly.
Ron Paul is a good man but he is far from presidential material. I could never vote for him because of his views,
If it’s any comfort, Ron Paul is disingenuous about his views. The guy is a shill who secretly favors everything he pretends to be fighting.
Notice that he never condemns anything. He only presents ideas in a way that gets people angry, so they can only guess he is on their side.
Another terrorist who will be disappointed upon discovering he gets no virgins.
Not according to al-Awlaki;
He preached how much nooky the jihadi’s would get in death.
I wonder how many orgasms he’s had so far? Heh.
I’ve often wondered, what do the women who blow themselves up for the cause get? Probably 70 13 yr old boys who haven’t a clue as what to do? Or, maybe, she gets to be a virgin again to be deflowered and discarded?
Good question!
I’d guess they’re told the blast gives them the ultimate orgasm.
But, you won’t see me in any mosque trying to find the answer.
Those such as Paul and Greenwald are fixated upon a single theory that does not recognize the state of hostilities that we’re in (Yes, it’s a war, but I’ll grant them this much).
So in their own pinhead logic, we’re wrong and Awalaki is right.
May they never have to depend upon the grace of my goodwill to defend them. There may not be any.
Two fer one deal … cool.
Mrthinks the “treasure trove” of info from Bin Hidin’s compound is paying off big time!!!
Islam: Be afraid !!!! There’s nowhere you can hide.
So I’m glad this jerk is dead, too. But it makes NO ONE else queasy that Barack Obama can unilaterally pass death sentences on American citizens for engaging in unapproved political speech??? AttaaaaackWaaaatch!!
“The morally confused Glenn Greenwald wails upon the death of a dual citizen who exploited his command of English to successfully exhort young Muslims to wage war against the United States within our territory.”
Oh please, the American government has had people executed without being given a trial for years now. Criminals like Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, and Pretty Boy Floyd, to name a few, were gunned down by the FBI without being arrested, let alone being given a trial. If people are deemed to be a danger to this country, the Federal Government will find a way to have you killed. In the case of Awlaki, it couldn’t happen to a “nicer” guy.
In fairness, Greenwald worried about the precedent, asking “How would you like the power to kill Americans without trial to be in the hands of Rick Perry or Michelle Bachman?”
But someone else (I forget who) on TV made the excellent point that during the period 1861-65 we killed hundred of thousands of American ‘without trial’ because they had treasonously taken up arms against their government.
FANTASTIC! Now lest get that US born little segment of human debris running around Somalia. I want these traitors killed with all prejudice asap.
Roast Terrorist Surprise, my favorite dish! Just grease, sear, and toss.
Then feed it to the hogs! Soooowheeeeeeeee!
Maybe now Molly Norris can come out of hiding. Remember her? Molly Norris, a freeborn American cartoonist, practicing her lawful trade in the heart of her native land, had to go into hiding because of a death threat from al-Awlaki. I had a hard time believing that pre-Californicated Seattle would have stood for this. Would none of you hippies stand up for her, I wondered? Protect her, roar defiance at The Jihad, dare them to come through you to get to her? Or were they too busy laughing at misspelled Tea Party signs?
The fact that a harmless cartoonist at a run-of-the-mill altie rag had to hide for her life because of a fatwa from the late imam should demonstrate both the international and the Islamic nature of the The Jihad against our liberty and our lives.
Another Al Quaida rodent has been turned into instant landscape. Gee, I wonder if there was enough of him left to wash and prepare for a proper Muslim funeral? Oh well, its just an occupational hazard that comes with being a radical Islamist. I hope his seventy-two butt ugly virgins are worth it.
Paging Adam Gadahn…Is Adam Gadahn in the building? You’re next treasonous dirtbag Al Qaida spokesrat.
The other night on O’Reilly, Dick Morris, more or less out of the blue, admitted that he had been wrong in predicting that Obama would dissolve our anti-terror programs. But I suppose O. will have to get more than Bin Laden and al Awalaki to make up for that half-bow to the Arab sultan. Symbolism is more important than substance, right?
And then, dedicated to Mr Lucky’s x% faction here:
Pssst, Obama tried to warn al Awlaki; pass it on.
Psst, Obama is about to drone YOU; pass it on.
Pssst, this story was fabricated by the LSM; pass it on.
You think al-Awlaki heard the “psssst”? Or just the boom?
This is part of Obama’s “Jobs Program”. There’s two administrative jihadi positions available.
I only regret that these a-holes probably never had the chance to experience real fear before they assumed room temperature.
my thoughts too Brent. they should have had to suffer for several hours,
Hey, I am all for shipping POS moon god worshiping Terrorists, but he was an American. Shouldn’t he have been shot at dawn right after a fair trial?
Does that mean, that those who are globalists, and hate the Constitution and Bill of Rights of these United States can be shot on sight too? They do far more damage than the follower of Muhammad.
He was an American? In what sense of the word?
Well Leatherneck, is it safe to say that you have aligned yourself with this “American”? I wonder who should be shot now?
The impeachment process was originally devised as a peaceful alternative to assassination or armed rebellion as a way of ridding ourselves of a criminal and/or tyrant in public office.
If political realities make it impractical or exceedingly improbable that any wrongdoer in office will ever be impeached and removed for violating his oath to uphold the Constitution, then the Constitution means nothing. What alternatives does that leave?
You tell me.
In the midst of the celebration and swaggering, it is worth pausing and considering that a US citizen was assassinated by the US government without due process.
Another Ronulan with his marching orders, eh? Your “U.S. citizen” has been hiding from *U.S. forces* for quite some time now in the dunes of Yemen — the better to plot the further mass murder of more *U.S. citizens* in the name of Islam. What do people like you NEED to realize what and whom we are up against? Anwar al-Awlaki HATED, with every fiber of his being, the United States, its citizens, its history, its unique individual-centered culture, and its Constitution. He PROVED himself, in deed, to hate everything about us. You, sir, much as our jihadi nemeses, are a brainwashed drone who would allow our most mortal enemies to use our freedom-loving ideals and our very Constitution against us in order to win an ideological debating point. Abraham LIncoln refused to put up with this sort of sophistic, traitor-serving crap, and so should we in our time. It has often been pointed out in our post-9/11 era that the U.S. Constitution was never intended to be a suicide pact impervious to the need of The People to defend themselves in time of national peril. Lincoln understood that. Bush understood that. Liberals of the Brave New Left, however, do not. And neither does Ron Paul. Screw him and screw them.
Regardless of his views, repugnant as they may be, Anwar al-Awlaki was a US citizen.
How would have trying Anwar al-Awlaki for treason harmed the interests of the USA?
If the US Constitution is nothing more than an article of convenience, to only be selectively applied according to current popular whim, then it has no more value than the worthless constitutions of banana republics.
Would it have made you happy to have him tried in absentia? We could have re-produced a scene from an old western movie, “We’ll give you a fair trail afore we hang you.” Hypocrisy can provide comfort to some. This is war. And this is the way war should be fought against Jihadists. This is the way Sadam should have been eliminated instead of moving in an army to have our boys become targets for suicide bombers. In reality there is little difference between a foreign enemy and a home-grown enemy except that the latter by law can be pegged as a traitor and that brings a death sentence. By picking out leaders among our enemies and executing them, we avoid killing innocents, save tons of money and make progress.
That piece of steaming shit was a traitor by definition. Here, let me help you:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort….
Anwar Al-Awlaki levied war against these United States, adhered to their enemies AND gave them aid and comfort.
I wonder what he’s thinking now?
“Nobody told me the virgins were all MEN.”
Oh and Ron Paul…you just f**ked your chances of EVER being President with the criticizing of his death.
— Regardless of his views, repugnant as they may be, Anwar al-Awlaki was a US citizen.
No, we cannot sweep his “views” aside. His views are identical with those of Zawahiri et. al. He became an “illegal combatant” against the U.S. and all Americans. He was a special case, and we were correct to kill him on the battle field. Hell, even Jimmy Carter would have given the order to put him down at the first opportunity.
— How would have trying Anwar al-Awlaki for treason harmed the interests of the USA?
Because we did not have to risk any American lives to take this illegal combatant down in the field. Protecting U.S. personnel (especially those in our elite units) is of far greater interest to us than capturing the target alive.
— If the US Constitution is nothing more than an article of convenience, to only be selectively applied according to current popular whim, then it has no more value than the worthless constitutions of banana republics.
Strawman. Try again.
This is war, dude, not the Judge Judy Show.
Are you inferring that in the case of war, anything goes?
In 20th century wars, execution without trial lead to war crimes charges.
No, I’m saying that an airstrike against an enemy target isn’t traffic court.
Sorry hoss, the enemy doesn’t get a fair trial (unless they feel like surrendering), just a 500 lb bomb down their throats if we can arrange it. And, after we’ve blown them to hell, they don’t a chance to appeal it either.
Oh, let me get this straight…..so a US citizen was assassinated without due process by our non US citizen president. Does this pretty much sums it up? You anti-Obama, sleeper cells of America types are very clear in your course and it’s just a matter of time before America finally wakes up and sees this.
Dave…I can’t believe you are really THAT stupid. The raghead was a traitor. He was giving aid and comfort to the enemy and levying war against the United States. He died in an act of combat, not an assassination, so tough titty on you.
The true punchline here for people like you is that you would call a terrorist a US citizen yet accuse our very own president of being an illegal alien in this country. Can this twisted ideology continue to thrive in America?
another STUPID ASS heard from. anyone taking up arms against you and me as Americans should be blown away post haste,
“In a video posted to the internet on November 8, 2010, al-Awlaki called for Muslims around the world to kill Americans “without hesitation”, and overthrow Arab leaders. He said that no fatwa (special clerical ruling) is required to kill Americans: “Don’t consult with anyone in fighting the Americans, fighting the devil doesn’t require consultation or prayers or seeking divine guidance. They are the party of the devils.”–wiki
Have fun burning in hell, scum.
The more of these rats we kill, the better, and the less time spent on trials and suchlike the better.
And, I hope Greenwald chokes on it.
Why cant you open your minds and THINK for a moment people. The PRINCIPLE that Obambi and his REGIME have just established is that if THEY consider you to be an enemy they can take you out even if you are a CITIZEN. Remember all the DISGUST America expressed when RUSSIA did that to Trotsky and to other dissidents over the years . So tell me what makes America any better. And THAT is the scary thing. Al Alwaki deserved to be TRIED as a Traitor and then put to death if convicted but not RUBBED OUT in the Chicago way of the GANGSTER USURPER masquerading as a Natural Born Citizen that America has stupidly allowed to be President.
To hell with you. I remember September 11, 2001. “We will never forget” — we said back then — which I took to mean that we, Americans, will track down the people who did this to us, unto the ends of the Earth, and kill them like the dogs that they are. Apparently Ron Paul missed that message. I guess he was too busy spinning cover stories for the filth who did the deed then, and who wish to repeat the deed tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that, until we no longer live in a free nation. The only “DISGUST” I am feeling right now, on this happy occasion, is towards YOU and your devious, lying, self-serving ilk.
The point dear Dr is not that Mohammedan Terrorist Scum do not deserve to be punished but that the US Govt REGIME does not have the moral right to be Judge , Jury and Executioner especially to its own CITIZENS. This is also even more disgusting HYPOCRISY from a Government REGIME that will not call a Mohammedan Terrorist a Mohammedan and who not only wants to but IS granting Terrorist SCUM their Miranda Rights and Civilian Trials . Now if you DR cant see the colossal HYPOCRISY and immorality of Obambi and his REGIMES actions than I PITY you.
Pragmatist, how do you justify Bush going into Iraq? Did we have enough concrete evidence at that time that Saddam had WMDs or is aligned with Osama Bin Laden? Saddam is a Sunni and Osama Bin Laden is a Shiite. Was it a justifiable war? You anti-Obama types are all so predictable in that when the ideology matches with yours, you will find justification at any cost but when the ideology does not matches with yours, you will do or say anything to condemn it, even when it is YOU who is wrong.
Osama was a Shiite?
That’s it, Dave, F in the class, retake, do homework next time, OK?
To Hell with you twice over, Pragmatist. You are the pathetic anti-Obama type that would do anything or say anything, even to side with the terrorists if it meant that you stand against President Obama. Your type are the closet terrorists that this country is overlooking. You probably think that Bush ordered this drone hit too, just as you probably gave Bush credit for the Osama Bin Laden strike. Go find another country to live you anti-American filth.
Dave you are just yet another Jingoistic Yank spouting mindless non thinking drivel.
Oh gawd. We’ve got a pantywaist briton in the room. Now I get it.
There is no extradition treaty with Yemen. If captured we would never have been able to get him to Guantonomo for trial. Obama is a destructive president when it comes to the economy and our traditions, but I give him credit for offing Al Queda scum. None of these “Americans” had any rights as enemy combatants. Just because your an American doesn’t afford you any shield if you work in war for the other side.
And there you have it straight from a NON THINKING morons mouth.
It is YOU and your ilk whom are the true morons of this country because you rather go against our president and undermine his success and in the course truly undermine this country. This president is actually ripping Al Qaida apart, piece by piece, and it irks you and the people who share your twisted ideoly down to your very core. YOU are what is wrong with America right now because YOU and people like you are the “sleeper cells” of America.
Listen Obambi loving Dave him and his REGIME want Mohammedan Terrorist SCUM to be given their MIRANDA RIGHTS on the Battlefield , they want the the GitMo Terrorists to have a FAIR trial in a CIVILIAN Court. But then on the other hand they think they have the RIGHT to act a Judge, Jury and EXECUTIONER to a American CITIZEN who has been convicted in no COURT of Law. Then idiots like you come along and try to tell people that if we dont just lurve Obambi we are not Patriots. Its morons like you and your USURPER Affirmative Action Kid President who are giving America a bad name. The only success Obambi had with this is making America LESS safe not more and establishing the precedent of a GANGSTER Government wiping out just who they like without due process just like the Russians did with Trotsky and many others.
Poor dumb…..very dumb Pragmatist, giving America a very bad name was declaring an unjustifiable war without enough concrete evidence to prove to the civilize world that what we were doing was just. Your “reverse civility” is very apparent and very transparent. Only a 10 year old would follow you like a clown.
Dave oh Dave ….poor dumb extremely dumb Dave. The War was LEGITIMATELY declared by BOTH Democrats and Republicans. Unlike Obambi’s ILLEGITIMATE action killing an American CITIZEN in a FOREIGN Country that the USA was not at war with. This is an even WORSE action than the disgusting actions by the Russians who at least had the CIVILIZATION to take their CITIZEN only and not to fire missiles that could cause God knows what collateral damage.
Really, what’s the big deal? One dead terrorist, a billion to take his place. Its good for nothing more than a few days of PR for Obama.
What’s the old saying?
A journey of a billion dead terrorists starts with one dead terrorist.
Or, something like that.
Are you claiming that the US is facing a billion terrorists?
The Obambi REGIME way NEVER mention Islam and Terrorism in the same sentence NEVER call a Terrorist a Terrorist unless he is a HOME GROWN Terrorist and then NEVER admit that he is also a MUSLIM and a Eastern Asian too. Give FOREIGN Terrorists Miranda Rights and Civilian Trials but wipe out American CITIZENS with air strikes. Then sit back and let the sycophants and idiots like Dave sing your praises.
Pragmatist, then I take it that you really don’t mind having a Muslim American opening a mosque right next to your home. Is this really about this terrorist or ALL about this president? Your tricks and “reverse civility” will only con a little kid or people with less than an IQ of 50. Wake up, Pragmatist, wake up!
President/ terrorist or terrorist/ president, I bet you people can’t tell the difference between who is whom in this scenerio. Did I hit a nerve on this website?
Dave my immature little friend just THINK , I know thats a difficult thing for a guy like you to do. You have a President and a REGIME which is perfectly happy to give FOREIGN Muslim Terrorists Miranda Rights and a trial in CIVILIAN Courts. A REGIME which will not even utter the word Terrorist and Islam in the same sentence but a HYPOCRITICAL Regime which has acted as Judge Jury and EXECUTIONER to an American CITIZEN who has not been CONVICTED of any crime whatsoever.
Then dweebs like you come along and try to tell us that its just because we dont like Obambi. What a cretin you are.
Dave my immature little friend just THINK , I know thats a difficult thing for a guy like you to do. You have a President and a REGIME which is perfectly happy to give FOREIGN Muslim Terrorists Miranda Rights even on the BATTLEFIELD and then a trial in CIVILIAN Courts. A REGIME which will not even utter the word Terrorist and Islam in the same sentence but a HYPOCRITICAL Regime which has acted as Judge Jury and EXECUTIONER to an American CITIZEN who has not been CONVICTED of any crime whatsoever. By all means take him prisoner and TRY him but please no more cringe worthy HYPOCRISY from both YOU and the Obambi REGIME.
Then dweebs like you come along and try to tell us that its just because we dont like Obambi. What a cretin you are.
Just waiting for one Obambi loving moron on here to call me RACIST. Come on deluded moonbats you know you want to. LOL
BTW jingoistic Yanks ‘My Country right or (as it definitely was in this case WRONG’ is not a defendable position especially in a War Crimes Trial. No matter how much you bluff and bluster and try to justify it.
“President/ terrorist or terrorist/ president, I bet you people can’t tell the difference between who is whom in this scenerio.”
Bet I can.
Obambi’s the one in a suit and tie. The terrorist is the dead guy.
So lets examine your pathetic logic shall we Dave.
Seems you think that “Guys in suits cant be Terrorists”
Which is both pathetically stupid and also very revealing of your illogical immature mindset.
‘Seems you think that “Guys in suits cant be Terrorists”’
Probably does seem that way…to a moron like yourself.
I wasn’t propounding a syllogism, simply making an observation about a particular case.
From reading all the posts … I’ve concluded that Obama has succeeded yet again with his “divide and conquer” strategy.
This treasonous SOB, Al Wacko needed to be killed … end of story.
Husky surely Al Alwacki as an American CITIZEN deserved to be treated AT LEAST equally with the treatment the Obambi REGIME gives to FOREIGN and other HOME GROWN MOHAMMEDAN TERRORIST SCUM. You know Miranda Rights, Civilian TRIALS and never ever calling them Muslims or Terrorists.
Not to do this but to proceed against him without ANY due process of law at all and to act as Judge, Jury and EXECUTIONERS for an American CITIZEN is HYPOCRISY of the highest stinking smelly order.
Its the HYPOCRISY that makes this stink not the killing of a Mohammedan Terrorist SCUMBAG and if Americans do not wake up to that and to what you have in the White House then God help you.
In fact I am certain that the Obambi REGIME’s actions in EXECUTING one of their OWN CITIZENS without due process on another Nations Territory contravenes the INTERNATIONAL LAW OF NATIONS. Time for Obambi and his cohorts to be arrested and taken to the Hague and put on trial for WAR CRIMES.
jeux sans frontiéres.
Post demise of al-Awlaki (his 40th Birthday would have been the day after he joined the virgins) a few of the tee vee pundits have referenced him as an “engineer” who studied at the University of Colorado.
Most of said pundits have failed to mention that al-Aw got a scholarship under false pretenses (pretenses=not acknowledging US citizenship) to attend the U of C.
They’ve also failed to mention this “imam’s” being arrested, twice, for soliciting prostitutes in San Diego, his obsession with sex & his sermonizing to the faithful in Virginia on the glories of the shimmering shaft once they’d met the virgins.
Presumably, al-Aw’s shaft is shimmering as we speak.
Certainly, there should have been a process server standing out there in the Yemani desert as al_Awlaki and his chief propagandist at Inspire (also American born) stopped their SUV’s for a bite of breakfast.
Assassination of “enemy” leaders is a most dangerous and unconscionable practice. The agency (in this case the United States Government) which conducted the operation also controlled the nature and amount of information released about the person assassinated so as to “justify” its actions. There are no restraints whatsoever, no checks, no verification. How does this differ from what Bashir, Qhadafi, or the leaders of Iran do to their opponents. Or more significantly how does this practice differ in substance from the action of Hitler and his minions in their efforts to exterminate an “odious” race.
Jeez, for once a liberal wanker does something right (takes part in the killing of a terrorist traitor) and a bunch of idiots start complaining about it.
Sure, Obambi is a waste of o2 and a scumbag lefty, but even scumbags do something right once in a great while.
Savor the moment.
I am not addressing the unbelievers, because they can not understand the smaller facts while they can can not see the big signs of Almighty God. Those who have a faith, (christians, muslims,jews) can any of them tell me in which part of their religious books, they are allowed to launch a war such as ” War on Terror”? I believe those who think Awlaki went to hellfire, need to first find if they are true believers. A believer will never claim that a believer like Awlaki will be in hellfire. Killing poeple for the sake of personal or national interests is not allowed in any religion.
Killing poeple for the sake of personal or national interests is not allowed in any religion.
Oh, I guess countless MUSLIM acts of slaughter over recent years (recent decades really) is on higher ground than just run-of-the-mill slaughter.
See bottom 1/2 of page for the past 2 months alone
Much of it right there in Afghanistan, Dr. Afghan
(for the record, I’m not sure al-Awlaki qualifies as a “believer” about anything, except in his own ego, rhetoric and self-importance)
To all the jingoistic name calling Yanks gloating about the death of an American CITIZEN and posting your bloodthirsty moronic joy on here. Just open your minds and THINK. Obambi has now established the precedent of the REGIME being allowed to act as Judge Jury and EXECUTIONER to American CITIZENS without any due process of Law at all. Whats more this SAME HYPOCRITICAL DISGUSTING REGIME will not even allow the mention of Islam and Terrorism in the same sentence nor will they clearly define acts by Mohammedan as Terrorism and they are giving FOREIGN Muslim Terrorists their MIRANDA RIGHTS and CIVILIAN Trials. But they are quite happy to KILL an American CITIZEN while at the SAME TIME seeking to call Water Boarding Muslims as TORTURE and calling Gitmo a CONCENTRATION CAMP and seeking to PROSECUTE the CIA members who did it.
Now if you Patriotic jingoistic morons want to stamp your feet and cheer this disgusting HYPOCRISY by your PRESIDENT and his REGIME then shame on you.
…are giving FOREIGN Muslim Terrorists their MIRANDA RIGHTS and CIVILIAN Trials.
It is weird to mirandize the Underwear Bomber (for example) and now there is controversy over whether he was mirandized in a timely fashion.
…Gitmo a CONCENTRATION CAMP and seeking to PROSECUTE the CIA members who did it.
My understanding is that the charges against CIA people have (finally) been dropped.
All the attention foisted on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 4 or 5 head AQ honchos at Guantanamo (attention unwanted by them, as they requested “martyrdom” years ago) is not consistent that the regime killed Awlaki as it did. The argument is that Awlaki’s status as an “enemy combatant” overrode his rights as an American citizen.
It seems like the point of your rant is to call anyone who approves the killing of Awlaki a “patriotic jingoistic moron”.
No the point of my ‘rant’ as you call it is to highlight the colossal HYPOCRISY of Obambi and the REGIME and the colossal STUPIDITY of the morons who support such HYPOCRISY.
Got yourself a topic here, prag, where your self-satisfied little notions of ignorant jingoistic morons and pathetic dweebs can really expand into the stratosphere
“Pragmatist” is a misnomer.
You aptly describe the Obama paradox. Unfortunately most miss the point.
Thanks, we already know that Obambi is a lying, two-faced, double-dealing, leftist sack of crap.
And al-Awlaki is still dead (if the reports are correct), and that’s a real good thing, no matter what Obambi is.
As usual the Jingoists are too busy glorying in their bloodlust to see the real problem. Obanbi and his disgusting HYPOCRITICAL REGIME have now established the principle that THEY can act as Judge Jury and EXECUTIONER on American CITIZENS while at the SAME TIME protecting Mohammedans from even being CALLED Terrorists and giving them their MIRANDA RIGHTS and CIVILIAN Trials.
I thank God I am not an American with such a HYPOCRITICAL fudged up REGIME in charge and such a bunch of bloodthirtsy brainless UNTHINKING idiots cheering them on.
“I thank God I am not an American…”
Yeah, I thank God you’re not an American too.
“I believe those who think Awlaki went to hellfire, need to first find if they are true believers.”
I believe that there aren’t too many things in this world lower than a backstabbing, traitorous, terrorist dog, like the late al-Awlaki. If there’s a hell, it was designed for scum like him.
Don’t much care what you believe. That’s your business.
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