Posted on 10/10/2011 2:23:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Al Qaeda: Al-Awlaki killing unlawful By: Mackenzie Weinger October 10, 2011 12:41 PM EDT
Al Qaeda’s Yemeni wing charged the U.S. violated its own Constitution and laws in the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, according to a statement on Monday confirming the American-born cleric is dead.
Like presidential candidate Ron Paul and others who have condemned the killing as an unconstitutional, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula used a legal argument to attack the drone assassination of the cleric and another American citizen, Samir Khan, who produced the Al Qaeda web magazine Inspire.
“The Americans killed the scholar Shaykh Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, but they did not prove any crime they committed and they never presented any proof against them from their laws of unjust freedom,” AQAP wrote according to a translation of the statement by Flashpoint Partners. “So, where is the freedom, justice, human rights and respect of freedoms they boast of? Did America become so suffocated that it contradicted — and everyday it contradicts — these principles it claims it established its country on?”
AQAP joined other critics — including presidential candidates Paul and Gary Johnson and organizations such the ACLU — in accusing the U.S. of acting unconstitutionally by assassinating a U.S. citizen without due process.
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Chutzpah!
Unfortunately, you are correct.
Who cares.
I have always wondered about this since it states something to that effect on page five of American Passports.
FUAQ
MURDERING 3000 INNOCENT AMERICANS (AND OTHER NATIONALITIES) IS UNLAWFUL.
You F-ing braindead murdering scumbags. Pig shit be upon you.
INDICT OBAMA NOW!!!
Yeah, well, what are you going to do when you have a Mohammedan running things. They kill people and don’t think laws apply to them.
it doesn’t matter
He is an enemy commander and is subject to being killed if located
He is no different than Admiral Yamamoto who was known to be flying in to Bougainville and shot down by P 38’s
The argument for not killing him was because there was fear about revealing sensitive info derived from code breaking. There was no problem at all with killing him.
I agree he needed killing... but Obama and friends might decide the same for Tea Party members. It would cost more to kill him with due process - but it’s a way that safe guards all of us who are conservatives.
‘Belligerents’ blow up as readily as the next guy or gal and being as belligerency knows no borders and boundaries these days, he was fair game.
Next case.
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