What a role model.
Aulaqi was a liar from way back:
Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist. Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.
Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ’s Yemen affiliate. Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ’s cause. Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA.
In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike
-—Wait, USAID Paid for a Radical Islamic Terrorist’s College Tuition?
Townhall ^ | February 09, 2025 | Matt Vespa
Ohio State attacker praised ex-Al Qaeda leader as ‘hero’ online, sources say
Fox News ^ | November 29, 2016
Posted on 11/29/2016, 11:40:58 AM by detective
The man who plowed a car into a crowd at Ohio State University before stabbing several pedestrians with a butcher knife on Monday is said to have referred to American-born Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki as a “hero” on his social media accounts.
Law enforcement sources told Fox News on Tuesday that the reference of al-Awlaki on Abdul Razak Ali Artan’s social media accounts is “deeply concerning” because it could suggest he was self-radicalized before launching the attack