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Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled Aulaqi; Arabic: أنور العولقي Anwar al-‘Awlaqī; April 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was a Yemeni-American[10] imam who was an engineer and educator by training.[11][12] According to U.S. officials, he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved with planning operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda.[3][8][13][14][15][16] He was implicated in helping to motivate at least three attacks on U.S. soil,[17] and was the first U.S. citizen to be added to a list of persons approved for targeted killing by the CIA.[18][19][20] With a blog, a Facebook page, and many YouTube videos, he had been described as the "bin Laden of the Internet".[21][22] U.S. President Barack Obama described Awlaki as "the leader of external operations for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula".[23]
Al-Awlaki reportedly spoke with, trained, and preached to a number of al-Qaeda members and affiliates, including three of the 9/11 hijackers,[24] alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan,[25][26] and alleged "Christmas Day bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab;[27][28][29] he was also reportedly involved in planning the latter's attack.
According to U.S. officials, al-Awlaki was promoted to the rank of "regional commander" within al-Qaeda in 2009.[5][30] He repeatedly called for jihad against the United States.[31][32] In April 2010, Barack Obama approved Al-Awlaki's targeted killing,[18][19][20] an action unsuccessfully challenged by al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups.[33]
Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in Southeast Yemen in the last years of his life.[34] The Yemeni government began trying him in absentia
in November 2010, for plotting to kill foreigners and being a member of
al-Qaeda, and a Yemenite judge ordered that he be captured "dead or
alive".[34][35] U.S. unmanned drones were deployed in Yemen to search for and kill him,[36] firing at and failing to kill him at least once,[37] before he was assassinated in a drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011.[38]
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