Anwar al-Awlaki family angered by U.S. silence

[The Northerner]

The State Department has said that it has not yet received confirmation of the killing of a 16-year-old American in Yemen — and that has angered his relatives, the family of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

The teenager was Awlaki’s son, Abdulrahman, and he was killed in an American military airstrike on Oct. 14. But the strike hasn’t been officially acknowledged. U.S. officials, meantime, say they have not yet been contacted by the teenager’s family, or been provided with confirmation of his death by the Yemeni government.

The family confirms they have gotten silence from Washington.

“What confirmation of the killing do they want,” a family member said in an e-mail to The Post. “They obliterated him with a Hellfire missile? What was left of him was pieces of his clothes.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/awlaki-family-angered-by-us-silence/2011/10/26/gIQAm4jDJM_blog.html

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1. Oh, what's a little murder when we're fightin' fer freedom?

Gee whiz! If you're going to make a liberty omelette, some eggs are gonna get broken. You can't have a delicious freedomburger without grinding up some meat. Get with the program, you people with funny-sounding foreign names! If Abdulrahman had been a little more careful about choosing his father, he coulda been president instead of roadkill on the way to a terrorism-free world.
U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A!