Are all americans fair game?
Awlaki has come out and called for the killing of americans in a new video out today.
Im not sure how many of you know this, but it was only a few years ago that awlaki was considered a moderate in islamic circles. His lectures were well researched, and his orative skills were great, and he spoke excellent english, and his lectures were NOT about terrorism. For this reason he commanded a great following amonst western muslims all over the world.
what happened in the last 5-6 years im not so sure. by the looks of it the US has marginlised him and it seems that he's gone off the other extreme by becoming radical while on the run.
Im not so sure what he means by americans, because he essentially is 'american' himself. ButI hope muslims are much smarter than to listen to this ramble.
do you think americans are fair game? civilians? armed soldiers?...mothers, children?.. where does it end?
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Radical Yemeni cleric Awlaki calls for killing of 'party of devils' Americans | News.com.au
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.
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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.
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