Justification for extrajudicial execution of US citizen classified as 'state secret'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10572/
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With Death of Anwar al-Awlaki, Has U.S. Launched New Era of Killing U.S. Citizens Without Charge?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/09/30-1
The Due-Process-Free Assassination of US Citizens is Now Reality
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/30-1
Obama: A Disaster for Civil Liberties
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/30-4
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): CCR Condemns Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/30-1
ACLU Statement on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/30-0
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Extrajudicial Executions
Obama Kills US Citizens In Yemen
By Al Jazeera
Tribal sources told the AFP news agency that Awlaki, the US-born 40-year-old father of five, was killed early on Friday in an air strike that hit two vehicles traveling through an al-Qaeda stronghold in central Yemen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29264.htm
Obama Can Kill Anyone He Wants To
By Robert Dreyfuss
American citizens are supposed to have legal and civil rights that protect them from political or prosecutorial assassinations, even if they are bad guys. Apparently, no longer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29263.htm
Ron Paul Condemns Killing of 'al Qaeda s' Awlaki
By Elizabeth Williamson
'Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,' Mr. Paul said after a breakfast at Saint Anselm College s New Hampshire Institute of Politics. 'If the American people accept this blindly and casually...I think that s sad.'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29265.htm
Obama praises killing of al-Awlaki
Obama also says it 'marks another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al'Qaida.'
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-praises-killing-al-awlaki-155351652.html
Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen - live coverage
Follow our live coverage as Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born al-Qaida leader, is said to be killed in Yemen by drone strike.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/30/anwar-al-awlaki-yemen-live
A Terrifying Precedent
By Michael Ratner
The law on the use of lethal force by executive order is specific. This assassination broke it - that creates a terrifying precedent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29275.htm
ACLU Comment on New York Times Article on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi
This is the latest in a series of one-sided, selective disclosures that prevent meaningful public debate and legal or even political accountability for the government s killing program, including its use against citizens.
http://is.gd/9sfiek
From Information Clearing House
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Weighing the Cost, Building Resistance
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: 'What does it mean to 'feel American' these days? After a decade of the relentless drumbeat warning us to be alert to the terrorist threat, the refrain that this is 'the land of the free, home of the brave' is ringing increasingly hollow.... Have we entirely lost sight of the notion that 'national security' should include securing those attributes that we have long claimed define us as a people, including the fundamental rights and protections of our constitutional system?'
http://www.truth-out.org/weighing-cost-building-resistance/1314827572
Judging a Long, Deadly Reach
Scott Shane, The New York Times News Service: 'The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen struck on Friday by a missile fired from a drone aircraft operated by his own government, instantly reignited a difficult debate over terrorism, civil liberties and the law.... A range of civil libertarians ... questioned how the government could take an American citizen s life based on secret intelligence and without a trial.... killing him amounted to summary execution without the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution.'
http://www.truth-out.org/judging-long-deadly-reach/1317484726
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Anwar al-Awlaki Another Burned Asset?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud/anwar-al-awlaki-another-burned-asset-.html
Anwar Al-Awlaki Has Been Killed Before
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud/anwar-al-awlaki-has-been-killed-before.html
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The Day America Died
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts328.html
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Assassins of liberty
Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
10/03/11
The assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki sets an important precedent, one that will go down in our history as a shameful moment, a turning point, when the policy of endless war empowered the President to kill his own countrymen without benefit of trial. Any American, whose 'preaching' purportedly 'inspires' a terrorist act is now fair game for our Praetorians...
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/10/02/assassins-of-liberty-2/
Finding wisdom in the midst of tragedy
Independent Institute
by Elizabeth Bernard Higgs
09/28/11
The way to peace will never be through killing. The way to peace is mercy. The way to peace is the understanding that forgiving the sins of those who sin against you is a requirement for a civilized and peaceful world. If we, as a society, move too far away from this understanding, we will inevitably fall into barbarism. Is it already too late?
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3164
The perils of a killer president
Ilana Mercer Barely A Blog
by Ilana Mercer
09/30/11
Anwar al-Awlaki was terminated today in Yemen (in violation of that country s sovereignty). According to the say-so of U.S. officials, this American-born cleric is said to have 'played a 'significant operational role' in plotting and inspiring attacks on the United States.' Good enough evidence in the court of the imperial presidency and his adherents and architects (like Dick Cheney)...
http://barelyablog.com/?p=42874
Obama searches for monsters, Ron Paul rejects assassinating Americans
The Nation
by John Nichols
10/01/11
President Obama s authorization of the assassination of an American citizen, New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki - in a drone attack that also killed American citizen Samir Khan, who was raised in New York City and North Carolina - drew high praise from execution-enthusiast Rick Perry, who congratulated Obama by name for 'getting another key terrorist.' But the bipartisan disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law stopped when Texas Congressman Ron Paul was asked about the air strike that on Friday killed the two Americans in Yemen...
http://tinyurl.com/3t866pq
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cheney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rick+Perry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=endless+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+secret
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=barbarism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=terrorist+threat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=terrorist+act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+citizen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+liberties
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=extrajudicial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=execution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=kill+list
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=airstrike
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Anwar+Awlaki
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Center+for+Constitutional+Rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ACLU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jonathan+Turley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elizabeth+Williamson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nancy+Murray
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kade+Crockford
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Scott+Shane
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Ratner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Elizabeth+Bernard+Higgs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ilana+Mercer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Nichols
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With Death of Anwar al-Awlaki, Has U.S. Launched New Era of Killing U.S. Citizens Without Charge?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/09/30-1
The Due-Process-Free Assassination of US Citizens is Now Reality
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/30-1
Obama: A Disaster for Civil Liberties
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/30-4
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): CCR Condemns Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/30-1
ACLU Statement on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/30-0
--------
Extrajudicial Executions
Obama Kills US Citizens In Yemen
By Al Jazeera
Tribal sources told the AFP news agency that Awlaki, the US-born 40-year-old father of five, was killed early on Friday in an air strike that hit two vehicles traveling through an al-Qaeda stronghold in central Yemen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29264.htm
Obama Can Kill Anyone He Wants To
By Robert Dreyfuss
American citizens are supposed to have legal and civil rights that protect them from political or prosecutorial assassinations, even if they are bad guys. Apparently, no longer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29263.htm
Ron Paul Condemns Killing of 'al Qaeda s' Awlaki
By Elizabeth Williamson
'Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,' Mr. Paul said after a breakfast at Saint Anselm College s New Hampshire Institute of Politics. 'If the American people accept this blindly and casually...I think that s sad.'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29265.htm
Obama praises killing of al-Awlaki
Obama also says it 'marks another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al'Qaida.'
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-praises-killing-al-awlaki-155351652.html
Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen - live coverage
Follow our live coverage as Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born al-Qaida leader, is said to be killed in Yemen by drone strike.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/30/anwar-al-awlaki-yemen-live
A Terrifying Precedent
By Michael Ratner
The law on the use of lethal force by executive order is specific. This assassination broke it - that creates a terrifying precedent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29275.htm
ACLU Comment on New York Times Article on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi
This is the latest in a series of one-sided, selective disclosures that prevent meaningful public debate and legal or even political accountability for the government s killing program, including its use against citizens.
http://is.gd/9sfiek
From Information Clearing House
--------
Weighing the Cost, Building Resistance
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: 'What does it mean to 'feel American' these days? After a decade of the relentless drumbeat warning us to be alert to the terrorist threat, the refrain that this is 'the land of the free, home of the brave' is ringing increasingly hollow.... Have we entirely lost sight of the notion that 'national security' should include securing those attributes that we have long claimed define us as a people, including the fundamental rights and protections of our constitutional system?'
http://www.truth-out.org/weighing-cost-building-resistance/1314827572
Judging a Long, Deadly Reach
Scott Shane, The New York Times News Service: 'The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen struck on Friday by a missile fired from a drone aircraft operated by his own government, instantly reignited a difficult debate over terrorism, civil liberties and the law.... A range of civil libertarians ... questioned how the government could take an American citizen s life based on secret intelligence and without a trial.... killing him amounted to summary execution without the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution.'
http://www.truth-out.org/judging-long-deadly-reach/1317484726
--------
Anwar al-Awlaki Another Burned Asset?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud/anwar-al-awlaki-another-burned-asset-.html
Anwar Al-Awlaki Has Been Killed Before
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud/anwar-al-awlaki-has-been-killed-before.html
--------
The Day America Died
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts328.html
--------
Assassins of liberty
Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
10/03/11
The assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki sets an important precedent, one that will go down in our history as a shameful moment, a turning point, when the policy of endless war empowered the President to kill his own countrymen without benefit of trial. Any American, whose 'preaching' purportedly 'inspires' a terrorist act is now fair game for our Praetorians...
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/10/02/assassins-of-liberty-2/
Finding wisdom in the midst of tragedy
Independent Institute
by Elizabeth Bernard Higgs
09/28/11
The way to peace will never be through killing. The way to peace is mercy. The way to peace is the understanding that forgiving the sins of those who sin against you is a requirement for a civilized and peaceful world. If we, as a society, move too far away from this understanding, we will inevitably fall into barbarism. Is it already too late?
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3164
The perils of a killer president
Ilana Mercer Barely A Blog
by Ilana Mercer
09/30/11
Anwar al-Awlaki was terminated today in Yemen (in violation of that country s sovereignty). According to the say-so of U.S. officials, this American-born cleric is said to have 'played a 'significant operational role' in plotting and inspiring attacks on the United States.' Good enough evidence in the court of the imperial presidency and his adherents and architects (like Dick Cheney)...
http://barelyablog.com/?p=42874
Obama searches for monsters, Ron Paul rejects assassinating Americans
The Nation
by John Nichols
10/01/11
President Obama s authorization of the assassination of an American citizen, New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki - in a drone attack that also killed American citizen Samir Khan, who was raised in New York City and North Carolina - drew high praise from execution-enthusiast Rick Perry, who congratulated Obama by name for 'getting another key terrorist.' But the bipartisan disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law stopped when Texas Congressman Ron Paul was asked about the air strike that on Friday killed the two Americans in Yemen...
http://tinyurl.com/3t866pq
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cheney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rick+Perry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=endless+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+secret
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=barbarism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=terrorist+threat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=terrorist+act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+citizen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+liberties
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=extrajudicial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=execution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=kill+list
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=airstrike
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Anwar+Awlaki
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Center+for+Constitutional+Rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ACLU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jonathan+Turley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elizabeth+Williamson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nancy+Murray
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kade+Crockford
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Scott+Shane
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Ratner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Elizabeth+Bernard+Higgs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ilana+Mercer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Nichols
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