Anwar al-awlaki and samir khan md

Challenging the government's decision authorizing the CIA and JSOC to target and kill Anwar Al-Aulaqi in Yemen.

Al-Awlaki and Khan are perhaps best known for founding and editing Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's....

Today, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit challenging the government’s targeted killing of three U.S.

citizens in drone strikes far from any armed conflict zone.

In Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta (Al-Awlaki v.

Samir ibn Zafar Khan (Decem – Septem) was a Saudi Arabian naturalized U.S. citizen, jihadist militant, and the editor and publisher.

Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the leading English-language propagandist for al-Qa`ida, was killed in an American drone strike in

Al-Awlaki and Khan are perhaps best known for founding and editing Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's.

Three of the most influential individuals in the evolution of English-language jihadist propaganda are the Americans Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan, and Ahmad.

Together, they introduced Salafi, Islamist and in some cases Salafi- jihadi thought to an audience of Western Muslims who were seeking new and culturally.

Panetta), we charge that senior CIA and military officials violated the Constitution and international law when they authorized and directed drone strikes that resulted in the deaths of three U.S. citizens – Anwar Al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, and 16-year-old Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi – in Yemen last year.

The killings were part of a broader program of “targeted killing” by the U.S.

government outside the context of armed conflict and based on vague legal standards, a closed executive process, and evidence never presented to the courts.

On September 30, 2011, U.S. strikes killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, who had been placed on CIA and JSOC “kill lists” over a year before, and another American, Samir Khan.

Two weeks later, on October 14, U.S. strikes killed 16-year-old