(archived from September 30, 2011)
by Scott
Creighton
“No
person … shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without
due process of law” Fifth
Amendment, US Constitution
It
is being reported that the United States launched a
drone strike in Yemen that killed targeted
US citizen Anwar Awlaki as well as former North
Carolina resident Samir Khan. Now, if he’s actually dead.. this
time… what exactly does it mean? Who did Obama kill without due
process of law and more importantly… why?
While President
Obama (Peace Prize “winner” (Nobel committee admitted they gave
him the award because they wanted to “support his agenda” and not
for anything that he had done “”It
was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve“”))
is busy patting himself on the back for what he calls a “major
blow” against al Qaeda, keep in mind that the entire
al Awlaki story is fraught with bullshit and exaggeration from the
very beginning. Now he supposedly gets killed while riding along with
a completely fraudulent al CIAda psyop by the name of Samir Khan?
Anybody else
thinking about those dead bin Laden photos that were going around the
congress until someone pointed out that they were an internet hoax
dating back to 2005 or so? The congressmen who were shown the photos
refused to tell us who provided them but we have to figure that they
came from high placed officials in the White House. I can’t
remember.. was bin Laden using his wife as a human shield and is it
really customary to rush the body of a Muslim halfway across a
country so you can dump it in the ocean before anyone can see it?
Let’s start
with the basics on Anwar al Awlaki. President Obama says this is a
major blow to al Qaeda. Hmmm….
“But in
truth Mr. Awlaki is hardly significant in terms of American security.
Contrary to what the Obama administration would have you believe, he
has always been a minor figure in Al Qaeda, and making a big deal
of him now is backfiring….
… But no
one should remain under the mistaken assumption that killing Mr.
Awlaki will somehow make us safer.
He is far from
the terrorist kingpin that the West has made him out to be. In
fact, he isn’t even the head of his own organization, Al Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula. That would be Nasir al-Wuhayshi,
who was Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary for four years in
Afghanistan.
Nor is Mr.
Awlaki the deputy commander, a position held by Said Ali
al-Shihri, a former detainee at Guantánamo Bay who was repatriated
to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and put in a “terrorist rehabilitation”
program. (The treatment, clearly, did not take.)
Mr. Awlaki
isn’t the group’s top religious scholar (Adil al-Abab), its
chief of military operations (Qassim al-Raymi), its bomb maker
(Ibrahim Hassan Asiri) or even its leading ideologue (Ibrahim
Suleiman al-Rubaysh).
Rather, he is a
midlevel religious functionary who happens to have American
citizenship and speak English. This makes him a propaganda threat,
but not one whose elimination would do anything to limit the reach
of the Qaeda branch.” New
York Times, Nov. 19th 2010
Anwar al Awlaki
was never indicted on any counts. He was never officially charged
with any crime. He was not the head of any al Qaeda group nor had he
made any weapons or claimed to have planned any attacks and yet he
was supposedly killed on just the say-so of the “progressive’
president of this country… the president of “CHANGE”