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Terrorist and traitor Anwar al-Awlaki assumes room temperature with the assistance of Predator Drone strike
This morning, Anwar al-Awlaki abruptly imitated the consistency of chunky salsa after a careful applications of Hellfire missiles.
Senior Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki and another America-born militant were killed in Yemen early Friday morning by a CIA-led U.S. drone strike, marking the highest-profile takedown of terror leaders since the raid on Usama bin Laden’s compound.
Fox News has learned that two Predator drones hovering above al-Awlaki’s convoy fired the Hellfire missiles which killed the terror leader. According to a senior U.S. official, the operation was carried out by Joint Special Operations Command, under the direction of the CIA.
President Obama called the strike a major “milestone” in the fight against Al Qaeda and its affiliates.
“The death of Awlaki is a major blow to Al Qaeda’s most active operational affiliate,” Obama said Friday. “He took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent Americans … and he repeatedly called on individuals in the United States and around the globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous agenda.”
He said the strike is “further proof that Al Qaeda and its affiliates will find no safe haven anywhere in the world.”
Al-Awlaki was a U.S.-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the network’s most active branch. He was involved in several terror plots in the United States in recent years, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks. President Obama signed an order in early 2010 making him the first American to be placed on the “kill or capture” list.
The Yemeni government and Defense Ministry announced al-Awlaki’s death, without giving details. But American sources confirmed the CIA and U.S. military were behind the strike on al-Awlaki, whom one official described as a “big fish.”
The strike hit a vehicle with three or four suspected Al Qaeda members inside, in addition to al-Awlaki. According to a U.S. senior official, the other American militant killed in the strike was Samir Khan, the co-editor of an English-language Al Qaeda web magazine called “Inspire.”
Kahn, in his 20s, was an American of Pakistani heritage from North Carolina. His magazine promoted attacks against U.S. targets, even running articles on how to put together explosives. In one issue, Khan wrote that he had moved to Yemen and joined Al Qaeda’s fighters, pledging to “wage jihad for the rest of our lives.”
In response, Uncle Nitwit Ron Paul jumped at the chance to beclown himself, criticizing the killing of an American traitor and terrorist, calling it an “assassination.”
Ron Paul aggressively criticized President Obama today for al-Awlaki’s death.
“No I don’t think that’s a good way to deal with our problems,” Paul said in a media avail after his remarks at the Politics + Eggs event here. “He was born here, Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it’s sad.
“I think what would people … have said about Timothy McVeigh? We didn’t assassinate him, who certainly he had done it. Went and put through the courts then executed him. To start assassinating American citizens without charges, we should think very seriously about this.”
Does he feel the same about Bin Laden? ”
Not exactly. Because he was involved in 9/11 and I voted for authority to go after those individuals responsible for 9/11. Al-Awlaki nobody ever suggested that he was participant in 9/11.”
This is precisely why Ron Paul will never get my vote. During the 2008 campaign, I found plenty to dislike about him. And today’s leap of (il)logic just reconfirms to me why there’s just way too much crazy mixed in with the Ron Paul kool-aid.
Those who conduct war against the United States should not be surprised when the United States returns the favor.
Al-Awlaki may have been born here, but he made a conscious and very public decision to wage war against America. He radicalized the Fort Hood killer, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. He was linked to the failed Christmas “underwear” and Times Square bombers. But most importantly, he left our country so he could train more terrorists to conduct attacks against us. American soldiers didn’t drag a U.S. citizen out of his house and shoot him in the street. Al-Awlaki wasn’t denied due process. This traitor was killed on the battlefield as he made preparation to carry out murder against American soldiers and our citizens.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
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