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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi, al-Awlaqi; Arabic: أنور العولقي‎ Anwar al-‘Awlaqī; April 21, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American and Yemeni imam and Islamic militant. U.S. government officials said that he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. With a blog, a Facebook page, the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, and many YouTube videos, the Saudi news station Al Arabiya described him as the "bin Laden of the Internet." After a request from the U.S. Congress, in November 2010 YouTube removed many of Awlaki's videos. However, Awlaki's influence continues to be apparent amongst Islamists in the west and internationally, and his statements, articles and lectures are regularly cited and used as inspiration by extremists in the West and worldwide.Renowned author and The Nation writer Jeremy Scahill offers a strongly contradictory description of the accusations made against Anwar al-Awlaki, noting in his writings and book that al-Awlaki was very pro-American and opposed to violence but he frequently criticized and questions American foreign policy with respect to the Middle East and the Muslim World. As a consequence, as a result of direct American influence, he was arrested by Yemeni officials and jailed on false charges. He was then targeted by the U.S. Government and he and his family believed his life was in danger. As the American military campaign against him increased, it caused al-Awlaki to question America's actions and eventually pushed him into supporting anti-government forces in Yemen. Scahill's detailed account of the CIA and U.S. Military and JSOC attacks and campaigns against Awlaki forced him into turning towards al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for protection and response. Scahill also writes extensively about the murder of Al-Awlaki's son, Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, which took places after his father was killed.U.S. officials say that as imam at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia (2001–02), which had 3,000 members, al-Awlaki spoke with and preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers, who were al-Qaeda members. In 2001, he presided at the funeral of the mother of Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who later e-mailed him extensively in 2008–09 before the Fort Hood shootings. During al-Awlaki's later radical period after 2006–07, when he went into hiding, he was associated with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who attempted the 2009 Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner. Al-Awlaki was allegedly involved in planning the latter's attack.The Yemeni government began trying him in absentia in November 2010, for plotting to kill foreigners and being a member of al-Qaeda. A Yemeni judge ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Some U.S. officials said that in 2009, al-Awlaki was promoted to the rank of "regional commander" within al-Qaeda, while others felt that Nasir Al-Wuhayshi still maintained this rank and that Awlaki was only by this point the most influential member in the group. He repeatedly called for jihad against the United States.In April 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama placed al-Awlaki on a list of people whom the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was authorized to kill because of terrorist activities. The "targeted killing" of an American citizen was unprecedented. Al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups challenged the order in court. Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in Southeast Yemen in the last years of his life. The U.S. deployed unmanned aircraft (drones) in Yemen to search for and kill him, firing at and failing to kill him at least once, before succeeding in a fatal American drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011. Two weeks later, al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver, was killed by a CIA-led drone strike in Yemen. Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar's father, released an audio recording condemning the killings of his son and grandson as senseless murders.. }

• Anwar_al-Awlaki abstract "Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi, al-Awlaqi; Arabic: أنور العولقي‎ Anwar al-‘Awlaqī; April 21, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American and Yemeni imam and Islamic militant. U.S. government officials said that he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. With a blog, a Facebook page, the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, and many YouTube videos, the Saudi news station Al Arabiya described him as the "bin Laden of the Internet." After a request from the U.S. Congress, in November 2010 YouTube removed many of Awlaki's videos. However, Awlaki's influence continues to be apparent amongst Islamists in the west and internationally, and his statements, articles and lectures are regularly cited and used as inspiration by extremists in the West and worldwide.Renowned author and The Nation writer Jeremy Scahill offers a strongly contradictory description of the accusations made against Anwar al-Awlaki, noting in his writings and book that al-Awlaki was very pro-American and opposed to violence but he frequently criticized and questions American foreign policy with respect to the Middle East and the Muslim World. As a consequence, as a result of direct American influence, he was arrested by Yemeni officials and jailed on false charges. He was then targeted by the U.S. Government and he and his family believed his life was in danger. As the American military campaign against him increased, it caused al-Awlaki to question America's actions and eventually pushed him into supporting anti-government forces in Yemen. Scahill's detailed account of the CIA and U.S. Military and JSOC attacks and campaigns against Awlaki forced him into turning towards al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for protection and response. Scahill also writes extensively about the murder of Al-Awlaki's son, Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, which took places after his father was killed.U.S. officials say that as imam at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia (2001–02), which had 3,000 members, al-Awlaki spoke with and preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers, who were al-Qaeda members. In 2001, he presided at the funeral of the mother of Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who later e-mailed him extensively in 2008–09 before the Fort Hood shootings. During al-Awlaki's later radical period after 2006–07, when he went into hiding, he was associated with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who attempted the 2009 Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner. Al-Awlaki was allegedly involved in planning the latter's attack.The Yemeni government began trying him in absentia in November 2010, for plotting to kill foreigners and being a member of al-Qaeda. A Yemeni judge ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Some U.S. officials said that in 2009, al-Awlaki was promoted to the rank of "regional commander" within al-Qaeda, while others felt that Nasir Al-Wuhayshi still maintained this rank and that Awlaki was only by this point the most influential member in the group. He repeatedly called for jihad against the United States.In April 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama placed al-Awlaki on a list of people whom the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was authorized to kill because of terrorist activities. The "targeted killing" of an American citizen was unprecedented. Al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups challenged the order in court. Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in Southeast Yemen in the last years of his life. The U.S. deployed unmanned aircraft (drones) in Yemen to search for and kill him, firing at and failing to kill him at least once, before succeeding in a fatal American drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011. Two weeks later, al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver, was killed by a CIA-led drone strike in Yemen. Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar's father, released an audio recording condemning the killings of his son and grandson as senseless murders.".