(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”