Tag Archives: Anwar al-Awlaki

Nov 21

NYPD Thwarts Terrorist Within Hour of Building Bomb

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HT: New York Daily News

The big news today is the NYPD thwarting a lone-wolf jihadist in the process of building a pipe bomb at his Washington Heights apartment, which according to what he told police would have been done within one hour if they didn’t stop him this afternoon.

Jose Pimentel, who is an U.S. citizen born in the Dominican Republic, wanted to attack soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, various government buildings, including a police station, and apparently test his bombs in mail boxes through the city. He was motivated by Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaida traitor

Read it all at Pundit Press

Oct 04

Ron Paul floats impeachment

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As much as I despise Comrade O. and would love nothing better than to have him impeached, removed from office and imprisoned, I can’t go along with the reasoning of Ron Paul for the impeachment.

Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense.

Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week’s killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader, the Texas congressman said impeachment would be “possible,” but that he wants to know more about how the administration “flouted the law.”

Paul called the killing a movement toward “tyranny.”“I put responsibility on the president because this is obviously a step in the wrong direction,” Paul said. “We have just totally disrespected the Constitution.” Read the rest

There’s no question Obama has flaunted and willfully violated the constitution, and no doubt at all we’ve moved closer to tyranny under his regime than at any time in history with the exception of perhaps FDR. But I don’t think this is actually impeachable.

Anwar al-Awlaki is a traitor that committed treason against the United States, he’d get the death penalty anyway, so that pretty much justifies killing him. Also, I don’t remember reading in the constitution anything about not executing a traitor. So he didn’t get his “due process,” neither did Billy The Kid.

Oct 01

AP – Killing Americans: On uncharted ground in attack

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A piece from the Associated Press via Yahoo News came out last night in which they were raising questions about the United States targeting, tracking, and killing one of its citizens.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama steered the nation’s war machine into uncharted territory Friday when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in al-Qaida.

It was believed to be the first instance in which a U.S. citizen was tracked and executed based on secret intelligence and the president’s say-so. And it raised major questions about the limitations of presidential power.

Anwar al-Awlaki, the target of the U.S. drone attack, was one of the best-known al-Qaida figures after Osama bin Laden. American intelligence officials had linked him to two nearly catastrophic attacks on U.S.-bound planes, an airliner on Christmas 2009 and cargo planes last year. The second American killed in the drone attack, Samir Kahn, was the editor of Inspire, a slick online magazine aimed at al-Qaida sympathizers in the West. Read the rest

I don’t believe for a minute this was “the first time.” The Cold War still holds many secrets.

I’m not so sure this is really a problem the way that some are making it to be. First off, Anwar al-Awlaki committed treason against the United States, that makes him a traitor. The penalty for committing an act of treason is death by hanging. So, he got what was due, and what he would have received had he been caught and brought back. All this action did was save time and money on an unnecessary trial or tribunal. Is it in a grayish area? You bet. But sometimes you have to do what needs to be done. Oh yeah, I’ll give credit where credit is due and tip my hat to Obama for making the call. He did the right thing.

Here’s something else to consider. Had we caught him and brought him back, would you really want the ACLU getting involved and mucking things up? You know as well as I, they would be on the side of the traitor.