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| Radical Yemeni cleric Awlaki calls for killing of Americans |
| 2010-11-08 |
| US-born radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al Awlaki has called for the killing of Americans in a new video message posted yesterday on Islamist websites. Awlaki said Americans are from the "party of devils" and that no special religious permissions are needed to kill them, the Associated Press reported. In the 23-minute, Arabic-language message, Awlaki said it was "either them or us." Speaking in Arabic, Awlaki appears sitting behind a desk with a sheathed dagger in his belt. The cleric, who was charged last Tuesday in Yemen over alleged ties to al-Qaeda and incitement to kill foreigners, is also wanted in the US on terrorism charges. Washington linked the young imam and son of a former Yemeni government minister to a shooting rampage last November at a US army base and to the botched Christmas Day 2009 attack on a US airliner. Prosecutors told a Yemeni court specialising in terrorism cases that Awlaki corresponded with Hisham Mohammed Assem, a Yemeni accused of shooting dead French energy contractor Jacques Spagnolo near Sanaa in October, for months and encouraged him to kill foreigners. Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Usama bin Laden and headquarters of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was coming under increasing pressure from Washington to hunt down the cleric. "M. Awlaki is a problem," US Homeland Security and Counterrorism Adviser John Brennan said in January. "He's clearly a part of al-Qaeda in [the] Arabian Peninsula. He's not just a cleric. He is in fact trying to instigate terrorism." Mr Brennan directly accused Awlaki of having links with Major Nidal Hasan, who is suspected of shooting dead 13 people at Fort Hood military base in Texas, and said Awlaki also likely had contact with Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to blow up the Christmas Day plane. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #10 Radical Yemeni cleric Awlaki calls for killing of Americans And Water is wet, so freaking what. Only mouthy Asshole noise. Abut the same as a wet fart. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-11-08 20:26 |
| #9 Meanwhile, back at the ranch... WASHINGTON – Attorneys for the father of a cleric trying to inspire Muslims to kill Americans argued in court Monday to keep his son from being targeted for death by President Barack Obama. U.S. District Judge John Bates heard arguments in the case of Anwar al-Awlaki on the same day that the American cleric made a renewed call for jihad against U.S. citizens in a video posted on extremist websites. Al-Awlaki, believed to be hiding in Yemen, was linked to last year's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, and the attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound flight last Christmas. In the latest video, he said all Americans are the enemy and Muslims should kill any of them at will without consulting anyone. Al-Awlaki's father, Nasser al-Awlaki of Yemen, has sued Obama to stop the targeted killing of his son, who was born in New Mexico, and to force the government to disclose standards for determining whether U.S. citizens can be targeted for death. He argues that the president's authority to unilaterally declare a targeted killing violates his son's constitutional right to due process. "What the government is doing is imposing the death penalty without trial," said Jameel Jaffer, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which along with the Center for Constitutional Rights has taken al-Awlaki's case. Pops and Jameel oughta be air dropped into Yemen to consult with sonny. Preferably without parachutes... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-08 20:24 |
| #8 Anwar al Awlaki ought to change to another line of work. He is no good at what he is doing. He promoted a bottom burning bomb,and he is hunted by Predators. Deer season opened in TX on Saturday, and hunting season opened in Yemen on Awlaki. Hint: Try to get a line of work in which the CIA and other agencies do not spend millions trying to kill you. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2010-11-08 18:18 |
| #7 These goat herders have not really experienced anything like we are capable of in a war. Keep pushing. We will get a leader one day who just says fcuk it and decides to go at it and we will back him or her. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-11-08 18:02 |
| #6 "either them or us." He's made our point precisely: 1. he doesn't consider himself an American 2. he makes it clear it is black and white in the WoT; there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim 3. we have the inherent right to self-defense and he just declared war 4. all Muslims need to be on notice: "Choose ye this day whom you will serve." Allan is an unacceptable choice. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-11-08 16:19 |
| #5 American or not, there comes a point where you just shoot criminals on sight. This guy is armed and dangerous. He's an "American". He's ours to take care of wherever he happens to be wasting air. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-08 14:14 |
| #4 You want war, Awlaki? Well, tomorrow we'll reply by nuking 564 cities and towns in the "Dar al Islam", beginning with Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, Jedda, Dahran, Aden, Khartoum, Cairo, Damascus, Islamabad, Quetta, Qom, Tehran, Isfahan, Natanz, Bandar Abbas, and Beirut. NOW what are you going to do? Going to strike back? Where is the money going to come from when the House of Saud is radioactive ash? Betting on the Iranians, when Qom and Tehran, Abadan, and Bushehr are all radioactive craters? Where are the boomers coming from, when 90% of the rank-and-file Islamists are either dead or struggling to eke out a bare existence from radioactive soil? We've been fighting with hands in boxing mitts, one tied behind us, and both feet in concrete-filled pails. Piss us off enough and we'll go Mogul on you. There won't be many survivors. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-11-08 13:44 |
| #3 Was there ever a point that they didn't stop trying to kill Americans? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-11-08 12:36 |
| #2 OK, we can start with Alwar al Awlaki. He is one "American" that I would favor killing. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-11-08 11:34 |
| #1 Ok 0bama, you have my permission to dronezap him now. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-11-08 11:07 |