Props to the Military, CIA and, yes, to Obama

1) Is it a state secret? The way the storty is being reported is that he is still a citizen. I imagine the news agencies would have looked into this. If it wasn't revoked, I am interested in the reasoning behind that. I don't think its unreasonable to assume the reason was because their case wasn't strong enough.

2) I haven't been able to find this online - have a link to a story on this? If this was true, it seems we'd have enough to revoke his citizenship. Which leads back to question 1.

 

not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but we are at war with al queda. that is the answer your question. i blame myself for never mentioning it before

 

kyle nobody can answer his question! he has questions!

 

We're in a "war" with terrorism, which isn't really a declared war, but revokes the rights of any citizen deemed a "terrorist" by some unknown CIA bureaucrat without any requirement of justification to the American people.

Is he an admitted member of al-Qaeda? Or just a member of terrorism in general? Was he a sympathizer or orchestrator? It seems the government has a responsibility to prove this and based on all the allegations I don't understand why there wasn't a push to abolish his citizenship. He was supposedly placed on an early version of the terrorism watch list in July of 2002, which gave us plenty of time to abolish his citizenship.

 

specifically with al queda. not sure if anyone said that yet.

not sure if i mentioned this yet, but we are at war with al queda. in war you dont really bring dudes to court, you just kill them. yunno in war. and we are in a war. with al queda. apologies if that is the first time i said that.

yes. and we are at war with al queda. the way war works is that you kill the guys on the other side. in this case al queda. we are at war with al queda. they started it. i remember when it happened you might have heard of new york. i live there. it is a city in america. it was attacked as part of the war we are in. with al queda. we are in a war with al queda. that means we kill guys who are in al queda.

nope, al queda specifically. we are in a war with them. they killed some folks in a town called new york.

both, but it doesnt really matter because we are at war and we really just kill al queda folks.

i do, and i can explain it. it is because we are at war. with al queda.

again, if i failed to mention that we are war with al queda during this post i am sorry, i think it will make you more likely to understand if i mention that we are at war with a group called al queda. this group killed lots of american in an attack a few years back. and this guy, he is with al queda. now pay attention because this is the key part. he is part of al queda, and we are in a war with them.

 

The link provided says a FBI bulletin alleges that al-Awlaki trained the underwear bomber and that he recruited and trained operatives for AQAP. Which still begs the question, why wasn't his citizenship revoked.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/18/terrorism-citizenship-constitution-politics-opinions-columnists-richard-a-epstein.html

I found this article, which makes it seems like law makers are dragging their feet on this issue (which makes the decision to pull the trigger a littlle more understandable). I don't find it hard to believe that al-Awlaki was working toward the downfall of our nation, but by not abolishing his citizenship I feel our government has acted in gray area that invites suspicion. Everything is alleged and nothing proven as far as I can see.

 

he's asking if he was such a known al-qaeda terrorist, why wasnt his citizenship revoked prior?

just ignore his motivation, its irrelevant.

 

yes very suspicious. it is as if we are at war and just go around killing the guys we are war with.

remember vietnam? korea? very suspicious. they used to kill indiscriminately. no war was declared therefore no war happened. very suspicious. why wasnt war declared?

 

because we are war and we can kill our enemies regardless of paperwork