Report: Fort Hood jihadist spiritual advisor allegedly killed in Yemen raid
Yesterday, ABC News reported that al Qaeda recruiter and Fort Hood jihadist spiritual advisor Anwar al Awlaki was asked by Nidal Hasan if it was okay to kill American soldiers.
After mocking U.S. intelligence in an interview with al Jazeera, Reuters is reporting early this morning that Awlaki has been killed in a military strike in Yemen:
A radical Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base is believed to have died in a Yemen airstrike on al Qaeda militants, a security official said on Thursday.
“Anwar al Awlaki is suspected to be dead (in the air raid),” said the Yemeni official, who asked not to be identified. Yemen said 30 militants were killed in the strike in the eastern province of Shabwa.
He counseled the 9/11 jihadists, hailed Hasan as a “hero” last month, and has been on the lam since 2002.
The question isn’t whether it was right to kill him.
The question is: What took so damned long?
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Side question: Are the soldiers involved in the military strike going to be court-martialed like those 3 Navy SEALs? Because Awlaki sustained much more than a punch to the stomach.
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AWESOME!
To Anwar al Awlaki: if true, say “hey” to Satan for us.
I will consider this a Christmas present from Secretary Gates, and the US Military.
Obama gets no credit, until liberals start admitting President Bush deserves some credit for 8 years of dead terrorists.
Enjoy your virgin goats boys, it’s going to be a long eternity.
I would also like to pause and acknowledge the awesome American Military-Industrial Complex, a.k.a. The Arsenal of Democracy.
I believe the Tomahawk Cruise Missile did this job, launched from a US Navy Destroyer or possibly a submarine.
Thank goodness Obama hasn’t gotten around to canceling these programs yet.
If our President will get half as tough with the enemies of our country as he is with the conservatives in America, we have a chance to win this war.
Yes we can!
Every time an author or professor is caught with child porn on his computer, he claims he was doing research. Haven’t investigators learned this by now? Hopefully the death of Anwar al Awlaki will put an end to Hasan’s “research” — something the Army should have done a long time ago but was too skittish to do because of political correctness.
He’s waiting for you, Hasan. The sooner you plead guilty, the sooner you can whine with him in that place “where their worm dieth not.” That’s how you’ll know there’s no alcohol in your drink — the worm will still be alive and swimming around in your glass.
Karma a pain in the ass. Hope he roasting in a open pit in hell
Hasan needs to die soon too. But the libs are going to want us to feel sorry for the swine because he is a cripple. Ptui!
How convenient….
Small world, isn’t it?
Alpha Mike Foxtrot
I hope there was a Christmas card on the bomb.
Say “howdy” to Mohammed, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin while you there.
Now this is a Christmas present I can really appreciate. Hope it is proved correct. My best wishes to all of Michelle’s readers for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and safe New Year. Michelle is the best and I hope you have a great 2010!!!
Good lord… That was my very first thought from just reading the headline.
Obummer’s employment number increases are due to the overwhelming number of lawyers that are being employed to represent the “victims” of “Boosh’s illegal war”.
Stupid PC infected Pentagon investigators are just as guilty of 14 dead at Fort Hood as the islamic terrorist shooter. May they all burn in Hell.
Nice shooting U.S. Military.
Merry Christmas to Michelle and all those who post comments on her articles. (With the exception of the trolls).
And they say there’s no Santa Claus! Now if we could just deliver a lump of coal to a few thousand more of those deviate weasels…
Tally one on the side of the good guys. Our military is awesome and if they were allowed to do their jobs we’d be rid of this vermin in the world.
Merry Christmas to our soldiers and God bless them!
The question is: What took so damned long?
Maybe we needed a President who supported acting (and encourages others to act) on actionable intelligence in countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan.
Side Question
What Yemen does to it’s own military personnel is their own business. The linked article suggested it was the Yemeni military that carried out the raid. Though if it were a US raid, the rules of conduct are different when under fire and when prisoners are held.
And, as for the Navy Seals, they should have been given nothing more than a good talking to, reminding them how to treat prisoners. Period.
Good. Is is clear who conducted the strike? Yemen or the US?
From the Reuters article:
My question is, how closely does Yemen cooperate with the U.S.?
I thought so.
A Yemeni official said.
And I should believe a Yemeni offical because…?
I’ll believe this story when a U.S. military official who knows, and who has no ties to the socialists in our government, confirms the death of this animal.
Otherwise, as far as I am concerned, this could very well be an example of taqiyya.
Sorry to feel this way, but this is merely one more result of where the destruction of our once beautiful, wonderful country by the socialist / statist / collectivist / opposite-world view disease has brought us: We “cooperate” with a muslim barbarian regime as we struggle to defend our civilization.
Not to worry. Our dear leader is sending replacements from GITMO as fast as he can.
So true!! And well said.
happy,
Sometimes volumes can be said in just a few words.
I was in a store the other day and some old guy was wearing a shirt with Odumbo on it. I asked him if he was a vet. “Yep!” “Did you know that man on your shirt just released 12 prisoners from GITMO just today?” :Blank stare: was all I got back.
I keep waiting for buyers remorse to kick in from the idiots who elected him and the corruptocrats (on both sides).
Sayonara punk!
Strike up the music!
Hopefully this will be confirmed soon, in any case, good news.
I hope in the few seconds before oblivion he felt nothing but fear.
Little comfort here: Yemen and Arabia are quite late in killing the jihadi–while Arabia is still funding jihadist schools and movements all over the world-including here. This particular jihadi group was a threat to the Arabian Royal Family and that is the only reason they were killed. The Wahhabi Invasion of America continues, Wahhabi schools in America continue. This was an in house dispute and not part of the war on “Man Made Disasters”.
Hussein Obama and the traitors of the left continue to stop us from using coal and our own oil and gas to escape Arab oil dependence. Treason it is. Yes we are to be glad Anwar al Awlaki is dead. But if we take the more generous view that ONLY 10% of mohammedans are jihadi that leaves 99,999,999 to go.
But what are 3,000 dead Americans in New York-13 at Fort Hood, The Cole, the Embassies, The El Al counter in LA, Mall shootings as long as we have diversity?
Treason is not too strong a term. Allah Akbar Mr. President, All Power to the Soviet.
Talk about KARMA!!! Yesterday he was mocking the US to everyone’s favorite MUSLIM “NEWS SOURCE”… Today he gets to meet his 72 VIRGINS, OR raisins, however you may interpret the KORAN… Remember, there are many religions in the world, but only one RELIGION OF PEACE!!!
Thanks Obama.
I take it that was in reply to my post #20?
When the Navy shot down Mo Kadhaffi’s Migs back in the early 80′s we had a fellow fighter pilot walk into work the next morning singing Queen’s song. It fits here as well:
“Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone
And another one gone
Another one bites the dust”
http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/Queen/Another-One-Bites-The-Dust–2146211
OK, this probably is just a conspiracy theory, but I put nothing past Obama. The reason for the secrecy in releasing documents related to Hasan’s involvement with wacko jihadist by the federal government, and the news that Anwar al Awacko may have been killed, are both related to suppressing information direcly related to Obama that he does not want to see the light of day.
Whether Alwacko is dead or just presumed dead isn’t impotant, just that he won’t talk anymore.
Sweet! is all I can say.
Well it is Christmas Eve and I have to do what married men and grandfathers all over the civilized world have to do: go out and buy a pack of every kind of battery ever made by anyone anywhere.
Merry Christmas good people and you too zzzy.
This may be the only good news this Christmas.
I never use this word, but….
AWESOME!
Message delivered.
Thank you, U.S. military.
Good. Enjoy the flames of hell. Say hi to Teddy K for us.
In keeping with the spirit of the season, I pray the Lord have mercy on his soul, and on the souls of the many more jihadis I hope are sent to Him soon.
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I pray this is true. But there are many like him equally deserving of an explosive finish.
Hey Anwar! How’d you like a fat lip?!
Oops, too late! Better luck next time!
Ha!
I believe thhis is properly pronounced “All Leaky”.
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Jihadi–meet Hellfire Missile from Predator drone!
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I hope his Miranda Rights warning was printed on the side of the warhead section. And that his lawyer was notified by automatic E-mail that taxpayer paid legal services would no longer be required.
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Maybe turning the GITMO Jihadis loose in Yemen isn’t such a bad thing. It can be a pretty tough neighborhood to survive in! Tee up the Fort Hood Jihadi Major for round 2.
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John Bibb
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Dah-dah dum, dum, dum, another one bites the dust!
Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va. will be turning out another one to replace him.
*Another good news story amongst all the bad news; Sweeeet!; These little victories are nice, no question about it, but until the western world gets off its’ politically correct high horse and understands the following, the root cause problem will only grow larger: We are dealing with a 7th century invented religion of death cult savages intent on destroying our way of life; If we wish to maintain our way of life, we must face this truth and confront it fully!
According to a Breitbart article here, Hasan had emailed this nutball about killing US soldiers.
I wonder who dropped the ball on finding these emails? I wonder how they concluded he was only conducting “research”….unless they decided asking about killing US soldiers wasn’t unusual for a Muslim.
If they knew he was emailing a normal jihadi, was it political correctness that kept them from digging deeper into his emails?
Great job soldiers, thank you for your service and all you do for your country.
Two scoops! Courtesy of the U.S. Military. So what really happened…someone forgot to ask the White House for permission?
Regardless, it is a present for America. Merry Christmas, everyone.
What a lovely Christmas gift:-)
[Payback is SUCH a witch, isn't it, Anwar? But if true justice prevails, your mentee, Nidal, will soon be joining you in Hell.]
That question would only make sense if the people on the ground were in custody, in which case the answer would be, “yes.” There is a huge, obvious difference between bombing the enemy in the field and allegedly abusing a prisoner; I’m amazed that distinction seems so elusive to some.
Sounds like the solution is to make sure the terrorist die on battlefield, saves a lot of trouble and a lot of anguish over their, “rights”, from some people.
Latest Fox report, scumbag cleric alive and well:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581151,00.html?test=latestnews
On December 24th, 2009 at 9:23 am, zeroangel said:
Hope in what?
Why cant we launch a rocket from a sub and just claim to not know what happened.
Errah, will someone please mirandize the corpse and get it to NYC as soon as practical so his due process rights are not violated??!!
Errah, If at first you don’t succeed . . .