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2013-07-18 Home Front: WoT

Nasser al-Awlaki:The drone that killed my grandson

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Posted by ryuge 2013-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The government has killed a 16-year-old American boy. Shouldnt it at least have to explain why?

Because they (Gov) are "white Hispanics"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-18 03:50|| 2013-07-18 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 He was a Moslem, yes? He was living in Yemen, yes? His father was THE Awlaki? Yes?

Its hard to be stricken at any of that. And besides who really cares?
You might drop a dime in the toilet, so are you going to fish around in the other stuff to get the dime back? Too bad for the dime.
And were any of the Awlaki's your friend? Anybody at all in that family your friends? Fugetaboutit.

Posted by Threater Flusoper9823 2013-07-18 06:55|| 2013-07-18 06:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The poor man. There he is, having achieved personal and professional success in the banana non-republic that was Yemen, and his bloodline is on the way to being wiped out. From The Wikipedia article on Anwar al-Awlaki:

Nasser al-Awlaki, was a Fulbright Scholar[44] who earned a master's degree in agricultural economics at New Mexico State University in 1971, received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska, and worked at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1977.[15][45] Nasser al-Awlaki served as Agriculture Minister and as President of Sana'a University. He was a prominent member of then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling party.[15][45][46][47] Yemen's Prime Minister from 2007 to 2011, Ali Mohammed Mujur, was a relative of al-Awlaki.[48]

Posted by trailing wife 2013-07-18 07:44|| 2013-07-18 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Two points to.consider: the al-awlaki family should take some responibility for choosing their profession that has a lot of risk. And the fact that it was a bad idea to assume you could hide behind a child to avoid the inevitable.

Posted by airandee 2013-07-18 11:54|| 2013-07-18 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree tw. While Anwar probably had it comming he was still a US citizen who was denied his Constitutional rights. The 16 year-old had done absolutely nothing to deserve what Obama gave him. Where is the outrage?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2013-07-18 15:23|| 2013-07-18 15:23|| Front Page Top

#6 "Where is the outrage?"

Silly Deacon. It's aimed at the

Oh, look - SQUIRREL!

Where was I?

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-18 15:26|| 2013-07-18 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Well.

I'm not blood-thirsty like Threater, but I'm not all that wound up about the poor young lad. Yes he's 16 and an American citizen, but he was in the wrong place, wrong time, etc. As much as I want to look after the civil rights of every American, I'm not in favor of stopping the WoT to be sure we don't harm a hair on the young lad's head.

Daddy al-Awlaki was a bad guy. He should have thought of his family a little more and not used them as shields.

Posted by Steve White 2013-07-18 16:01|| 2013-07-18 16:01|| Front Page Top

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