Nasser al-Awlaki

Nasser al-Awlaki
Ethnicity Arab

Nasser al-Awlaki is a Yemenite scholar and politician. He is also the father of Anwar and grandfather of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki who both were killed by a U.S. drone. After the deaths of his son and grandson, Nasser published a 6 minute audio message condemning the U.S. for the killings.[1] In the audio he accused President Obama:

I urge the American people to bring the killers to justice. I urge them to expose the hypocrisy of the 2009 Nobel Prize laureate. To some, he may be that. To me and my family, he is nothing more than a child killer.
—q.v. TIME, CNN[2][3]

He claimed his son was far from any battlefield.[1]

In 2010 Al-Awlaki had stated he believed his son had been wrongly accused and was not a member of Al Qaeda.[4]

His son was a U.S. citizen, having been born in New Mexico in 1971 while Nasser was earning his master's degree in agricultural economics at New Mexico State University.[5] A Fulbright Scholar, Nasser received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska, and worked at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1977.[6][7]

Nasser was a prominent member of then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling party. He served as Agriculture Minister and President of Sana'a University.[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nasser Al-Awlaki Blasts U.S. For Killing of Son and Grandson via @intelwire". News.intelwire.com. December 2, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ "An American Teenager in Yemen: Paying for the Sins of His Father?". Time. October 27, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Official: Drone attack kills Al-Awlaki's son in Yemen". CNN. October 15, 2011.
  4. ↑ Newton, Paula (11 January 2010). "Al-Awlaki's father says son is 'not Osama bin Laden'". CNN. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Warren Richey (August 31, 2010). "Anwar al-Awlaki: ACLU wants militant cleric taken off US 'kill list'". Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on October 22, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Sharpe, Tom (November 14, 2009). "Radical imam traces roots to New Mexico; Militant Islam cleric's father graduated from NMSU". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Raghavan, Sudarsan (December 10, 2009). "Cleric linked to Fort Hood attack grew more radicalized in Yemen". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 10, 2009.
  8. ↑ Shane, Scott (November 18, 2009). "Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 22, 2009. Retrieved November 20, 2009.
  9. ↑ Holmes, Oliver (November 5, 2009). "Why Yemen Hasn't Arrested Terrorist Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki". TIME. Archived from the original on November 12, 2010. Retrieved November 11, 2010.

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