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They did murder an American journalist for criticising their rules in his writing
by anonkogudhyfhhf 4y ago
They did murder an American journalist for criticising their rules in his writing
- samirillian 4y ago[flagged]
- jjtheblunt 4y agoWhat?
- aww_dang 4y ago>Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki was a 16-year-old United States citizen who was killed while eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant in Yemen by a drone airstrike ordered by U.S. President Barack Obama on October 14, 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla... >Nawar "Nora" al-Awlaki was an eight-year-old American citizen who was killed on January 29, 2017, during the Raid on Yakla, a commando attack ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nawar_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nawar_al-Awlaki >Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki was an American imam who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki became the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and killed by a drone strike from the U.S. government.[7][8] US government officials argued that Awlaki was a key organizer for the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
- jjtheblunt 4y agoI didn’t know about these. Thanks for the links and explanation.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoSignificantly less American than Anwar al-Awlaki, the US citizen Obama ordered assassinated. Jamal Khashoggi was a US resident, but never gained citizenship.
- CydeWeys 4y agoHe was an al Qaeda member with ties to 9/11. Not the same situation at all as a journalist.
- naturalauction 4y agoSure, but his son (who was also killed in a separate strike) was 4 when 9/11 happened and was 16 when he was killed.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoTerrorist or not, he was a US citizen entitled to a fair trial.
- CydeWeys 4y agoEvery Confederate killed during the Civil War was a US citizen too (secession is illegal and not recognized). At some point, if people are trying to kill you, you kill them back.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoEquating an army marching on your city and a man saying things in Yemen is silly.
- CydeWeys 4y agoBy the end of the war we were the ones marching on them, killing them in their cities, and burning them down. War is war. The world would be a better, safer place for us if every single al Qaeda member worldwide were dead. I'm glad the US military is trying to get as many of them as possible. The main issue I'm worried about here is collateral damage -- that can cause the actions to be counter-productive.
- TheGigaChad 4y ago[dead]
- mc32 4y ago[flagged]
- chii 4y agoif he was an american citizen, then he's american. Doesn't matter who or what he's working for.
- yunohn 4y agoHe was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, which is how he became such a harsh critic of the country’s shortcomings. He was never a citizen of the USA. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1035565/jamal-khashoggi-murder-nationality-saudi-arabia-journalist-remains https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1035565/jamal-khashoggi...
- khuey 4y agoHe had a green card.
- mc32 4y agoA green card is a residency card; it does not confer citizenship. Lots of Journalists with American citizenship have residency cards of other countries in order to be able to work from those places. It does not make them Japanese, or Korean or Chinese, etc.
- bumbledraven 4y agoHe was Saudi, not American. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi : “Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi … was a Saudi journalist, dissident, author…”