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'''Anwar al-Awlaki'''  (born on the 22nd April, 1971 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, died 30th September, 2011 in Yemen) was a radical Muslim preacher who encouraged his followers to attack western targets by facilitating and coordinating several terrorist attacks. According to U.S government officials Awlaki became a senior talent recruiter and leading figure for Al- Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen. Awlaki had been perhaps the most prominent English-speaking advocate of violent jihad against the United States, with his message carried extensively over the Internet. He was an inspiring, clever lecturer who spoke directly to the concerns of young Muslims in the West. He had been described as the 'bin Laden of the Internet.' His online lectures and sermons had been linked to more than a dozen terrorist investigations in the United States, Britain and Canada. Awlaki had been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was linked to Nidal Malik Hasan an army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas November 2009 and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit bound airliner on December 25th 2009.

Anwar al- Awlaki was born in New Mexico in 1971, he later returned to Yemen with his family when he was seven years old.  Awlaki returned to the United States when he decided to pursue his undergraduate and master degrees at state colleges in Colorado and California. He received his B.Science degree in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University in 1994; during his time there he was also President of the Muslim Student Association.  Later he earned his M.Arts degree in Education Leadership from San Diego State University.

During his time in the USA and UK many of his followers and sponsors were closely connected to the International Muslim Brotherhood. Awlaki’s earlier works was more comparable with the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood than with Al-Qaida. Before Awlaki made any clear Al-Qaida statements, he did however show admiration for Sayyid Qutb’s (an originator of the contemporary "anti-Western Jihadist movement") writings who was one of the Intellectual Godfathers of Salafi Jihadism. It is believed, Awlaki became radicalized and identified with the Al-Qaida, while he was imprisoned in Yemen.

 

By early to mid-1990’s Awlaki had already begun to gain a following among American Muslims. He saw ‘the danger of Western culture diluting and damaging Islam and Muslims by America and its allies and infighting within the ''ummah'' (The global Islamic Nation). He drew substantial inspiration from the Muslim Brotherhoods version of Salafism. He was especially influenced by Yusuf al Qaradawi’s work concerning the spread of Islam in the West. However he only emerged as a public figure in the months following 9/11 where he was seen as a moderate and critic of Al-Qaida.

In early July 2010 the CCR (Center for Constitutional Rights)  and the ACLU ( American Civil Liberties Union) were retained by Nasser al- Awlaki, the father of U.S citizen Anwar al-Awlaki to bring a lawsuit in connection with the governments decision to authorize the death of his son, who was placed on kill lists maintained by the CIA and the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) earlier this year. The lawsuit sought to remove Anwar from the targeted killing list. ACLU's Jameel Jaffer said: the United States is not at war in Yemen, and the government doesn't have a blank check to kill terrorism suspects wherever they are in the world. Among the arguments we'll be making is that, outside actual war zones, the authority to use lethal force is narrowly circumscribed, and preserving the rule of law depends on keeping this authority narrow.