Targeting US Citizens?

Looks like the Obama administration has put a US-born Islamic cleric on the hit list.

The Obama administration has authorized the killing of a radical Muslim cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen believed to be hiding in Yemen and thought to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the U.S. to participating in them, according to published reports.

Al-Awlaki has emerged as a prominent al-Qaida recruiter and has been tied by U.S. intelligence to the 9/11 hijackers, along with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, as well as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in November at Fort Hood, Texas.

American counterterrorism officials say they believe al-Awlaki has become a recruiter for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula terrorist network, feeding prospects into plots aimed at the U.S. and at Americans abroad, the officials told The New York Times in a report posted online late Tuesday.

It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an American to be approved for targeted killing, officials told the newspaper. A former senior legal official in the administration of George W. Bush said he did not know of any American who was approved for targeted killing under the former president.

All you who thought that Obama was just going to roll over and surrender to the Islamonutjobs raise your hands.
He's surged in Afghanistan, upped the UAV strikes in Pakistan, continued to target individuals. Yeah, he tried to claim Iraq as his success, which is stupid, but Afghanistan has hardly become a cut-and-run situation, and the widening of the attacks on the Islamonutjobs to other countries is promising that the administration is really standing up to them...

By: Brant