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Title: Commander In Chief Obama Bags Another!!!!
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URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/w ... s-killed-in-yemen.html?_r=1&hp
Published: Sep 30, 2011
Author: LAURA KASINOF and ALAN COWELL
Post Date: 2011-09-30 08:09:12 by war
Keywords: CIC Obama Shows, DumbDumbv43, How To Fight!!!
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SANA, Yemen — In a significant and dramatic strike in the campaign against Al Qaeda, the Defense Ministry here said American-born preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading figure in the group’s outpost in Yemen, was killed on Friday morning. In Washington a senior official said Mr. Awlaki had been killed in an American attack by an unpiloted drone firing a Hellfire missile. Mr. Awlaki’s Internet lectures and sermons have been linked to more than a dozen terrorist investigations in the United States, Britain and Canada. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had exchanged e-mails with Mr. Awlaki before the deadly shooting rampage on Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. Faisal Shahzad, who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square in May, 2010, cited Mr. Awlaki as an inspiration. A Defense Ministry statement said that a number of Mr. Awlaki’s bodyguards were also killed. A high-ranking Yemeni security official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Mr. Awlaki was killed while traveling between Marib and al-Jawf provinces in northern Yemen — areas known for having an Al Qaeda presence, where there is very little central government control. The official did not say how he was killed. A senior administration official in Washington said the killing of Mr. Awlaki was important both because he had become Al Qaeda’s greatest English-language propagandist, and also because he had emerged as one of its top operational planners. “First and foremost, we’ve been looking at his important operational role,” the senior administration official said. “To the extent he’s no longer playing that role it’s all to the good.” President Obama’s top national security and counterterrorism officials held a video-teleconference at 6:30 a.m. Washington time to discuss details of Mr. Awlaki’s death as well as its impact on the Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen and the group’s broader organization. Mr. Awlaki’s name has been associated with many plots in the United States and elsewhere after individuals planning violence were drawn to his engaging lectures broadcast over the Internet. Those individuals included Major Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the shootings at Fort Hood in which 13 people were killed; the young men who planned to attack Fort Dix, N.J.; and a 21-year-old British student who told the police she stabbed a member of Parliament after watching 100 hours of Awlaki videos. But his death could also play into the tangled politics of Yemen, where beleaguered President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been resisting months of protests against his 30-year rule, arguing in part that he is a critical American ally in the war against Al Qaeda. In early September the Obama administration’s top counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, said recent cooperation with Yemen was better than it has ever been despite the prolonged absence of Mr. Saleh, who spent four months in Saudi Arabia after a June bomb attack on his presidential palace. President Saleh’s family controls the armed forces responsible for counterterrorism, and the killing of Mr. Awlaki seemed likely to be used to further the argument that the current government is the best ally for the United States when it comes to combating the affiliate group, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. “Awlaki may not matter much to Yemenis, but his presence in Yemen has influenced U.S. counter terrorism policy, which in turn has influenced transition politics,” said Ginny Hill, the head of the Yemen Forum at Chatham House in London.A senior American military official in Washington said Mr. Awlaki’s death will send an important message to the surviving leaders and foot soldiers in Al Qaeda, both in Yemen and elsewhere. “It’s critically important,” the senior U.S. military official said. “It sets a sense of doom for the rest of them. Getting Awlaki, given his tight operational security, increases the sense of fear. It’s hard for them to attack when they’re trying to protect their own back side.” “You take out someone like this, it sends a message,” the military official continued. “Now they have to go into a succession effort that will cause a movement of people, of messages, which makes them more vulnerable. Bottom line, they’ve taken a severe impact.” Earlier this year, the American military renewed its campaign of airstrikes in Yemen, using drone aircraft and fighter jets to attack Qaeda militants. One of the attacks was aimed at Mr. Awlaki. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said in July that two of his top goals were to remove Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s new leader after the death of Osama Bin Laden in May, and Mr. Awlaki. Word of the killing came after months of sustained American efforts to seriously weaken the terrorist group. In August an American official said a drone strike killed Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, a Libyan who in the last year had taken over as Al Qaeda’s top operational planner after Bin Laden was killed. In July, Mr. Panetta said during a visit to Kabul, Afghanistan that the United States was “within reach of strategically defeating Al Qaeda” and that the American focus had narrowed to capturing or killing 10 to 20 crucial leaders of the terrorist group in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. A month earlier, an American official said the Central Intelligence Agency was building a secret air base in the Middle East to serve as a launching pad for strikes in Yemen using armed drones. The construction of the base was seen at the time a sign that the Obama administration was planning an extended war in Yemen against an affiliate of Al Qaeda, called Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which has repeatedly tried to carry out terrorist plots against the United States. The American official would not disclose the country where the C.I.A. base was being built, but the official said that it would most likely be completed by the end of the year. Last year, the leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen sought to install Mr. Awlaki as the leader of the group in Yemen, which apparently thought Mr. Awlaki’s knowledge of the United States and his status as an Internet celebrity might help the group’s operations and fund-raising efforts. Mr. Awlaki, who came form a prestigious Yemeni family, was accused of having connections to the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a former engineering student at University College London, who is awaiting trial in the United States for his attempt to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it landed in Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009. The bomb did not explode. Mr. Awlaki has been linked to numerous plots against the United States, including the botched underwear bombing. He has taken to the Internet with stirring battle cries directed at young American Muslims. “Many of your scholars,” Mr. Awlaki warned last year, are “standing between you and your duty of jihad.” In Yemen, there was a muted reaction to the news of the death of Mr. Awlaki, who derived his importance from his ability to reach out to the Western, English-speaking world, and held very little importance to the Yemeni population. Many saw the killing as confirmation of their belief that the United States becomes involved in Yemen only for counterterrorism. Mr. Awlaki’s death comes at a time when Yemenis protesters, who have been demonstrating against their government relatively peacefully for eight months, are angry at the United States for not doing more to push President Saleh out of office. Further, if it emerged that Mr. Awlaki was killed by a American drone strike, it will likely further harm the image of the United States among average Yemenis, who are staunchly against outside military intervention in their country. Laura Kasinof reported from Sana, Yemen, and Alan Cowell from London. Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti contributed reporting from Washington. This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: September 30, 2011 An earlier version of this article said that Yemeni forces had carried out the attack. The circumstances of the operation remain unclear.
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#9. To: war (#0)
Just one more and Ø gets another Nobel Prize!
He was reported killed HERE, HERE, and HERE, on December 24, 2009. Does this mean he was dead then, or he's dead now? I'm sure he'll be meeting with Pentagon officials again for dinner, soon... They'll give him a big medal, a fattened bank-account... and perhaps a double- tap, so he doesn't squeal about his CIA ops...
DUMMY DwarF: ...I'm eating a meatball... http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=24347&Disp=35#C35 /Moron http://www.investigativeproject.org/1601/relatives-dispute-claim-that-anwar-al-awlaki
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
I'm glad that he didn't rake you up on that...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Battlefield casualty...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
"without a trial." And like I said,you were and are wrong. Trials only apply to criminals arrested in America for crimes. Treason and fighting for the enemy in foreign countries makes you a combatant,and combatants don't have to be found guilty at a trial before being put to death. The whole idea they do is ludicrous.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
No,he didn't. Somebody gave the orders in his name,just like when bin Laden was allegedly killed.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
Just one more and Ø gets another Nobel Prize! If he takes credit for bagging two more,he gets a free toaster and free checking at one of the banks he bailed out with taxpayer money.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
I wonder if the people who make the actual decisions allowed him in the room to view the strikes this time? This explains why "ex-reagan republican" BBBWWWWAAAAAHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!...dwarf has "the thing" for the POS regime leader:)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. (decided to retire the beatdowns on old worthless retread posters that are bozoed)
Actually Pete, treason is a triable offence for a citizen. Nothing de-facto about convicting this POS of treason. And certainly no person convicts based on what the supra-omniscient and "no agenda" media or military leader tells them is the case right? Constitutional steps and all that stuff you know. And this punk had the same rights as John Gacy or Richard Ramirez much as it may pain us to tolerate the trial spectacles. This targeted extra-judicial killing of a civilian might well be a big nail in obama's tire for the reason the commie space cadet seems to be noting (I bozoed the spinning headed kook along time ago but I see the excerpt) The inconvenient truth is this punk rughead was a citizen...and like it or not he has due process rights even if he's on Mars broadcasting Air America propaganda. Here's the deal with citizens....he is alleged to be an enemy combatant .... alleged to be seditious ... and the inconvenient truth here is that he had due process rights that were summarily abridged by this fucker regime leader stomping those into the ground. The very same rights which this fucker regime leader and his filthy followers like dwarf, looseyskank, brainshit etc... falsely try to convey to the the bastard killers in guantanimo -- rights they ---unlike this citizen zawhiri asshole gasbag mouthpiece---are not worthy of. Nothing proven "beyond a reasonable doubt" to any panel of his peers in a court of law that he actually did to deserve execution. The media tells you he's this ogre ----and he may well be---he was certainly an anti american asshole evidenced from viewing his online screechings----but courts have been presented no evidence at all that he "pulled the trigger" on anybody. He might have just been a blathering mouthpiece. So really he's convicted , sentenced and has his execution specifically targeted and directed by (and cheered by dupes) solely via proxy of the words from the fucker in chief. So to be clear...had this "citizen" been lining up an RPG on some US troops then he really becomes and enemy combatant worthy of the short trial given from the time the round leaves the barrel of the SAW to the point of impact. I'm sure you can see the distiction in the scenarios Pete.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. (decided to retire the beatdowns on old worthless retread posters that are bozoed)
Why does Supreme Leader like al Qaida in Egypt and Libya but doesn't like them in Yemen?
I'm glad al-Awlaki was splattered to smithereens but there's another American-born preacher in Chicagostan whose disciples have done far more damage to the U.S. than any American-born Ayatollah in Yemen ever could ever dream of doing.
We were doing drone strikes there before Owe-bama was sworn in? I honestly didn't think we were, and that was an expansion of the Bush administrations use of drone in Afghanistan.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
o please. That one doesn't even pass the laugh test. Need to re read the constitution. The Habeus Corpus part especially. Cause there's nothing between you and the state now...otherwise...;}
True,but first you have to arrest him. Which is impossible when he is living in enemy territory and running around with armed enemy as personal bodyguards. Under those circumstances it is perfectly acceptable to turn him into bait without a trial. His circumstances serve as proof of his guilt. Not to mention his videos where he is encouraging people to kill Americans. And this punk had the same rights as John Gacy or Richard Ramirez much as it may pain us to tolerate the trial spectacles. Wrong. They were mere common murderers. Regular criminals living within the confines of the country,and available for arrest if and when found. The inconvenient truth is this punk rughead was a citizen...and like it or not he has due process rights even if he's on Mars broadcasting Air America propaganda. True,but Air America doesn't call for the violent overthrow of our country and the murder of our citizens. THAT's the difference. Freedom of speech covers the right to protest,but not to promote murder or the destruction of our way of life. he is alleged to be an enemy combatant .... alleged to be seditious ... There is no alleging about it. He is on video tape promoting the murder of American citizens and the destruction of America. but courts have been presented no evidence at all that he "pulled the trigger" on anybody. He doesn't have to. As a cop you know yourself that conspiracy to commit murder and hiring or encouraging others to commit murder makes you as guilty of murder as the one who sets off the bomb or pulls the trigger.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
Of course. Boy Jorge was ordering them long before the invasion of Afghanistan.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
Need to re read the constitution. No,but you need to read it and understand it. You are just playing your standard "America sucks!" game.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
You mean the retail banks that want to get out of the retail bank business? I have a feeling Ø keeps his stash off-shore like many third world or Chicago (but I repeat myself) politico.
bull shit...;} fuck the fbi and cia. fuck norad and the ss. and of course ysrael...note how we look more like them every gd day...;} you get none of my rights. and you need to bring your military home now. because your democracy is gone. you really want to go john wayne here? the threat is here...;} Am I a Threat to National Security? by Justin Raimondo • September 30th, 2011 • Related • Filed Under * No Related Post Filed Under: Featured • Justin Raimondo [Subscribe online to Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Click here for details]. feature photo When I first saw the memo from the FBI’s counterterrorism center in Newark, declaring that I’m “a threat to National Security,” not to mention an “agent of a foreign power,” I was incredulous. These can’t be real FBI documents, I thought to myself. Someone is pulling my leg. Sadly, no. As I discovered upon further investigation, the memo is all too real. The provenance of the documents, which indicate that the feds launched a “preliminary investigation” of Antiwar.com, myself, and our webmaster, Eric Garris, is as follows: An obscure blogger made an FOIA request for information about the FBI’s investigation of the “High Fivers”—the five Israelis who were arrested on September 11 and held for six months on suspicion that they had some foreknowledge of the events on that dark day. I wrote about this subject in the August 2003 issue of Chronicles—and, what do you know, that piece is included in the FBI file! Isn’t it encouraging to learn that our state-subsidized sneaks are reading this magazine?
who authorized the potus to assassinate an American? you have no answer...;}
Whose “National Security” is being threatened here—and on behalf of which “foreign power”? My alleged “crime” is to have written in too much detail about the possibility that agents of a foreign power (Israel) had some degree of foreknowledge of what happened on September 11, 2001. This is clearly what upset the FBI—because, if that is true, then where were our intrepid G-men while Israeli agents were crawling all over the place as the Twin Towers burned? They did indeed arrest five of them and interrogate them for months before quietly deporting them; and I, apparently, became a “threat to National Security” by noticing this inconvenient fact.
Ysrael or US, sneaky. U Pic 'Em...;}
Print NEW YORK — New York City police say about 700 protesters have been arrested after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours. Note I had to go foreign to find this.
I'll need you to post the part that allows a potus to kill an American w/o being charged.
And what part of your constitution allowed for the war in Libya? Allain Jules 1st October, 2011 Translated by Cailean Bochanan Is a mega history being written now in Libya. Judging by statements by the TNC things are going from bad to worse. So what new stink bomb are these losers about to unleash. NATO can’t live up to their lies and is visibly dragging its feet while the TNC has it in for NATO for not bombing enough. Just setting the scene.
You are so freaking confused you not only think this is a democracy,but you want the military at home to enforce a police state. "Gone" is the ideal form of democracy.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
you have no answer...;} When did Barry assassinate anyone? Do you even know the definition of the word assassinate?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
Whose “National Security” is being threatened here— America's,since he was recruiting people to overthrow our government and murder American citizens. and on behalf of which “foreign power”? Think you are being clever here because there is a religion involved here instead of a specific nation,don't you? You're not. The "foreign power" is "Islam".
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
Nope. To YOU the decision is "Islam or US",and you have clearly chosen Islam.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
The War Powers Act,for one. This may have escaped your attention because your Burka was in the way,but Americans were killing a lot of other Americans during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812,and none of the ones being killed while fighting for the British ever had "their day in court".
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
Trying to change the subject,Buckwheat?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
Do you even know the definition of the word assassinate? He didn't do it himself. He gave the orders for the assassination.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Awww...Quay...you're so...so BITTER...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Need I remind everyone that he already had... BTW, it looks like the Lockerbie guys are going to be handed over to the US...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
We were doing drone strikes there before Owe-bama was sworn in? Of course. Boy Jorge was ordering them long before the invasion of Afghanistan. In Yemen? I don't think we were, sneaky. I'm fairly certain that was begun under Owe-bama. And its not like I'm a big fan of him, or his administration. But no, Bush wasn't using drones to kill terrorists in Yemen from what I've seen.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
In Yemen? No,but in other Muslim countries. What's so special about Yemen?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Nov 2011
We were doing drone strikes there before Owe-bama was sworn in? Of course. Boy Jorge was ordering them long before the invasion of Afghanistan. In Yemen? No,but in other Muslim countries. What's so special about Yemen? Owe-bama ordered it, it worked spectacularly, sneaky. Thats what is 'special' about it, because as we both know he's screwed up just about everything else. But he got this specific policy decision RIGHT. And so credit where credit is due.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Agreed,assuming HE is the one who actually decided to do it,instead of someone on his staff that did it in his name and notified him it was being done.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Either way, the buck stops in the Oval Office. No way would they be bombing inside another country without POTUS signing off on it, at least as it pertains to an extended campaign as this clearly is. He did the right thing HERE. Its a refreshing change I don't expect to see anywhere else before he's fired for gross incompetence next year.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Commander In Chief Obama Bags Another!!!!
#10. To: war (#0)
(Edited)
Commander In Chief Obama Bags Another!!!!
Again?
Capitalist Eric: Foreplay before the president's staff? 
#11. To: Capitalist Eric (#10)
(Edited)
But there was no official confirmation that any of the men had been killed.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#12. To: Fred Mertz (#8)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#13. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#14. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
Like I said:
#15. To: Badeye (#5)
That said, credit where credit is due. The President did order these strikes there.
#16. To: Sebastian, war (#9)
Commander In Chief Obama Bags Another!!!!
#17. To: sneakypete (#3)
The only time Barry has ever bagged another guy was in a bath house.
#18. To: sneakypete (#14)
(Edited)
And like I said,you were and are wrong. Trials only apply to criminals arrested in America for crimes. Treason and fighting for the enemy in foreign countries makes you a combatant,
#19. To: war (#0)
#20. To: war (#0)
(Edited)
American-born preacher Anwar al-Awlaki
#21. To: sneakypete (#15)
No,he didn't.
#22. To: sneakypete (#14)
Trials only apply to criminals arrested in America for crimes.
#23. To: e_type_jag (#18)
Actually Pete, treason is a triable offence for a citizen.
#24. To: Badeye (#21)
We were doing drone strikes there before Owe-bama was sworn in?
#25. To: mcgowanjm (#22)
o please. That one doesn't even pass the laugh test.
#26. To: sneakypete (#16)
If he takes credit for bagging two more,he gets a free toaster and free checking at one of the banks he bailed out with taxpayer money.
#27. To: sneakypete (#25)
No,but you need to read it and understand it. You are just playing your standard "America sucks!" game.
#28. To: sneakypete (#25)
No,but you need to read it and understand it. You are just playing your standard "America sucks!" game.
#29. To: sneakypete (#25)
#30. To: All (#29)
#31. To: All (#30)
#32. To: sneakypete (#25)
No,but you need to read it and understand it. You are just playing your standard "America sucks!" game.
#33. To: sneakypete (#25)
#34. To: mcgowanjm (#27)
and you need to bring your military home now. because your democracy is gone.
#35. To: mcgowanjm (#28)
who authorized the potus to assassinate an American?
#36. To: mcgowanjm (#29)
#37. To: mcgowanjm (#30)
Ysrael or US, sneaky.
#38. To: mcgowanjm (#32)
I'll need you to post the part that allows a potus to kill an American w/o being charged.
#39. To: mcgowanjm (#33)
And what part of your constitution allowed for the war in Libya?
#40. To: sneakypete (#35)
When did Barry assassinate anyone?
#41. To: Happy Quanzaa (#20)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#42. To: Happy Quanzaa (#19)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#43. To: sneakypete (#36)
America's,since he was recruiting people to overthrow our government and murder American citizens.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#44. To: sneakypete (#24)
#45. To: Badeye (#44)
We were doing drone strikes there before Owe-bama was sworn in? Of course. Boy Jorge was ordering them long before the invasion of Afghanistan.
#46. To: sneakypete (#45)
#47. To: Badeye (#46)
But he got this specific policy decision RIGHT. And so credit where credit is due.
#48. To: sneakypete (#47)
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