Anwar Al Awlaki Lectures MP3

Anwar Al Awlaki Lectures MP3

Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi, al-Awlaqi; Arabic: أنور العولقي‎‎ Anwar al-‘Awlaqī; April 21, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American[8] and Yemeni imam and Islamic lecturer. U.S. government officials allege that, in his position as a senior recruiter and motivator, he was centrally involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda,[2][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and he became the first United States citizen to be targeted and killed by a U.S. drone strike.[16][17] President Barack Obama ordered the strike.[18] His son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki (a 16-year-old U.S. citizen), was killed in a U.S. drone strike two weeks later.[19] On January 29, 2017, Al-Awlaki's 8-year-old daughter, Nawar Al-Awlaki, was killed in a U.S. commando attack in Yemen which was ordered by Obama's successor, Donald Trump.[20][21][22][23] With a blog, a Facebook page, the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, and many YouTube videos, al-Awlaki was described by Saudi news station Al Arabiya as the "bin Laden of the Internet".[24][25] After a request from the U.S. Congress, in November 2010 Google removed many of al-Awlaki's videos from its websites.[26] According to The New York Times, al-Awlaki's public statements and videos have been more influential in inspiring acts of terrorism in the wake of his assassination than before his death.[27]

As imam at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia (2001–02), al-Awlaki spoke with and preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers, who were al-Qaeda members.[28] In 2001, he presided at the funeral of the mother of Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who later e-mailed him extensively in 2008–09 before the Fort Hood shootings.[29][30] During al-Awlaki's later radical period after 2006–07, when he went into hiding, he was associated with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted the 2009 Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner.[31][32][33] Al-Awlaki was allegedly involved in planning Abdulmutallab's attack.

The Yemeni government tried him in absentia in November 2010, for plotting to kill foreigners and being a member of al-Qaeda. A Yemeni judge ordered that he be captured "dead or alive".[34][35] Some U.S. officials said that in 2009, al-Awlaki was promoted to the rank of "regional commander" within al-Qaeda.[36][37] Others felt that Nasir al-Wuhayshi still held this rank and that al-Awlaki was an influential member in the group.[36] He repeatedly called for jihad against the United States.[38][39]

In April 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama placed al-Awlaki on a list of people whom the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were authorized to kill because of terrorist activities.[40][41][42] Al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups challenged the order in court.[40][42][43][44] Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in southeast Yemen in the last years of his life.[34] The U.S. deployed unmanned aircraft (drones) in Yemen to search for and kill him,[45] firing at and failing to kill him at least once,[46] before succeeding on September 30, 2011.[17] Two weeks later, al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver, Colorado, was also killed by a CIA-led drone strike in Yemen.[19][47][48] Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar's father, released an audio recording condemning the killings of his son and grandson as senseless murders.[49] In June 2014, a previously classified memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Justice was released, justifying al-Awlaki's death as a lawful act of war.[50] Some civil liberties advocates have described the incident as "an extrajudicial execution" that breached al-Awlaki's right to due process, including a trial.[51]