from SLATE: >U.S. Approves Targeted Killing of American Citizen >Radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was in the news last fall as one of the >potential inspirations for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's shooting spree at Fort >Hood, Texas, in November and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempted Christmas >Day terror attack. Now, in what the New York Times calls an "extremely rare, >if not unprecedented" move, the New Mexico-born imam has been approved for >targeted killing by American troops. Originally believed to be merely >encouraging terror attacks, Awlaki is now thought to be actively recruiting >terrorists as an operative of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, according to >American counterterrorism officials. In Washington on Tuesday, California Rep. >Jane Harman [my Congresscritter -- JD] called Awlaki "probably the person, the >terrorist, who would be terrorist No. 1 in terms of threat against us."
>Read original story in The New York Times >[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html] | Wednesday, >April 7, 2010 < aren't you glad that President McCain was elected? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
