U.S Citizen Killed by US gov't airstrike in Yemen

The American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a major al Qaeda figure who U.S. officials say inspired several terror plots against the U.S., was killed overnight in Yemen in a CIA drone strike, U.S. and Yemeni officials told ABC News.

A senior U.S. official told ABC News the U.S. had been tracking the high-profile jihadist for some time and had just been waiting for the perfect moment to strike. A Yemeni official said al-Awlaki was killed along with an unknown number of al Qaeda confederates.

"They were waiting for the right opportunity to get him away from any civilians," a senior administration official told ABC News.

President Obama said in an announcement today that al-Awlaki's death was a "major

Even Eisenberg himself admits that al-Awlaki bore a eerie resemblance to what Eisenberg looked like when playing the bearded, bespectacled title character in the 1985 Michael Douglas-Kathleen Turner film.

The cleric had a “really striking resemblance to that [Jewel] character. I wonder if he based his image on the movie,” Eisenberg told ABC News.

The 62-year-old Eisenberg is alive and well and living in Maine. The actor has traded celluloid for Vaudeville, frequently travelling to Europe and South America to stage his one-man show, “Exceptions to Gravity.”

With his now-gray beard and balding head, Eisenberg said that he no longer looks much like his Jewel character or al-Awlaki — and that’s a good thing, he said, for practical reasons.

“I suspect it would have caused problems because I do travel internationally a lot,” he said.

He said that he’s not the only Vaudeville entertainer who could be confused for a terrorist.

Shoe bomber Richard Reed, he said, is “the spitting image” of one of The Flying Karamazov Brothers.

"Mr. Awlaki is a terrorist who's declared war on the United States,"

100%. He got what he deserved. If he had been brought in for trial, I would have been dissapointed.

Lesson: citizens should not declare war on the USA. [usatoday.com]

Months after the 9/11 attacks, as the U.S. Secretary of the Army was eager to have a presentation from a moderate Muslim as part of an outreach effort to ease tensions with Muslim-Americans, a Pentagon employee invited al-Awlaki to a luncheon in the Secretary’s Office of General Counsel.[84][85]

Al-Awlaki was the Congressional Muslim Staffer Association’s first imam to conduct a prayer service at the U.S. Capitol in 2002.[86][87] The prayers were for Muslim congressional staffers and officials for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

What about presidents that declare War without Congressional Approval....?

Seems like Bush and Obama do not want to be upstaged by a regular american citizen...

‘Assassinating’: Ron Paul & Gary Johnson Critical of U.S. for Killing Al-Alwalaki [theblaze.com]

Only Congress can declare war. Presidents engage in police actions.

Congress can pull funding if they find that politically viable.

Lesson: citizens should not declare war on the USA. [usatoday.com]