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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Family hits out at US in fury at fate of Anwar al-Awlaki's slain son - Middle East, World - The Independent

Family hits out at US in fury at fate of Anwar al-Awlaki's slain son - Middle East, World - The Independent: The family of a American teenager killed in Yemen during a US attack – a week after his terrorist father also died in a US strike – has lashed out at reports that the young man was a militant.

Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16, who was born in Denver, was the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, one of America's most-wanted men, whom an unmanned drone obliterated with a rocket in Yemen last month.

Some US newspapers described the American-born teenager as a militant in the mould of his notorious father, a preacher who was implicated in a series of alleged terrorist plots – including an attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit – over the past five yea

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