Posted on 09/30/2011 7:41:54 AM PDT by old school
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American-born cleric killed in Yemen played a "significant operational role" in plotting and inspiring attacks on the United States, U.S. officials said Friday, as they disclosed detailed intelligence to justify the killing of a U.S. citizen.
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good riddance.
Buh-bye!
One less cockroach. The world won’t miss it.
May he rest in pieces....
Next!
I think, when Al-Queada asks who wants to be leader to step forward, whoever is slowest in stepping back gets to be the new leader.
Obama got Bin Laden, and Nixon landed on the moon.
What silliness. So police cannot shoot criminals who are attacking schools? Al-Awlaki was outside of the control of the United States and presented a clear and present danger to its citizens. Killing him was a clear act of self defense. It was not an execution. If we had killed him after he surrendered to authorities, it would be a different matter.
Has Yemen been the site of yet ANOTHER undeclared war?
Who knew?
Apparently the current regime is quite a fan of these “surgical strike force” engagements. Is this an open-ended type of engagement which shall NEVER see an end, or is it the beginnings of being a “Fu Manchu” kind of international diplomacy?
So, how long before his “Mommy and Daddy” sue the United States government for “illegally” “murdering” their “precious” son?
Takin’ out the trash.
The problem with killing these guys is that you lose a lot of operational intelligence.
On the plus side, especially if you get them quickly, their replacements aren’t as experienced, so it becomes amateur hour for awhile.
I don’t know. It would be nice to have at least bothered to get an indictment, ask for extradition, etc. You know, all those silly little legal niceties that we’ve honored ever since we became a nation over 200 years ago.
I for one am more than just a bit uncomfortable giving ANY President the authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner of an American citizen.
This raised some questions for me. If he was an American citizen, why wasn’t he indicted for the acts he was implicated in? Was he, in fact, an American citizen merely by virtue of having been born in the U.S.? If he was an American citizen were there attempts made to capture him and bring him back to the U.S. for trial? What does this portend for other American citizens, outside of the U.S., who are merely “accused” of a criminal or terrorist act? Could the U.S. government summarily execute you? Where’s the policy that states the government can do this? I’m not a bleeding-heart but offer-this-up for discussion.
Have a nice dirt nap.
So we kill an AQ mucky-muck in Yemen and what’s the first thing that happens? Our d!ckhead of a president jumps in front of the TV cameras to bask in the glory of an assasination by HELLFIRE missile.
We said in the 2008 election that we were so screwed and we were oh so right.
I understand your concern. But under some extraordinary circumstances I could justify it.
The problem with that is what one President considers extraordinary another will consider routine. If this guy had been tried in absentia, convicted, and sentenced to death I wouldn't have a problem with it.
But he wasn't. The President had him killed with nothing more than the stroke of a pen. That's very, very scary. This time it was this creep, a guy it's nearly impossible to argue against. Who's it going to be next time? Or the time after that?
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