Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is facing criminal charges for his role in a mass street rally against the government, his lawyers say.

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The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki was believed to have been a major blow to the propaganda efforts of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen. But when it comes to his death’s impact on the ability of the group to carry out attacks, the picture remains as cloudy as it was when Awlaki was killed nearly four months ago . Read full article > >

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Former CIA official: Al-Qaeda in Yemen still nimble

The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled that forensic evidence offered by prosecutors in the case against Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition leader, may be unreliable.

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Malaysian Opposition Leader Acquitted in Sodomy Trial

The High Court ruled that forensic evidence offered by prosecutors in the case against Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition leader, was unreliable.

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Malaysia Court Acquits Anwar Ibrahim of Sodomy Charge

Anwar case thrown out, blasts reported outside courtroom.

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Malaysia Leader Not Guilty of Sodomy

One week after a U.S. military airstrike killed a 16-year-old American citizen in Yemen , no one in the Obama administration, Pentagon or Congress has taken responsibility for his death, or even publicly acknowledged that it happened. The absence of official accountability for the demise of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a Denver native and the son of an al-Qaeda member, deepens the legal and ethical murkiness of the Obama administration’s campaign to kill alleged enemies of the state outside of traditional war zones. Read full article > >

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U.S. airstrike that killed American teen in Yemen raises legal, ethical questions

In the days before a CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki last month, his 16-year-old son ran away from the family home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to try to find him, relatives say. When he, too, was killed in a U.S. airstrike Friday, the Awlaki family decided to speak out for the first time since the attacks. Read full article > >

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Anwar al-Awlaki’s family speaks out against his son’s death in airstrike

While the Obama administration was busy last week tamping down reports that the Japanese government has scuttled President Obama’s plans to visit Hiroshima and publicly apologize for America’s dropping of the atom bomb , another apology received less notice. According to the Charlotte Observer, an official from the State Department called the family of American al-Qaeda terrorist Samir Khan “to offer the government’s condolences on his death in a U.S. drone attack last week in Yemen.” Apparently Khan, who was killed alongside Anwar al-Awlaki, was not on the U.S. government’s targeting list , making his death “collateral damage” in the eyes of the Obama administration. So an official from the State Department called his family — much as they might the families of innocent women and children accidentally killed in a U.S. strike — to express our condolences for his accidental death. Read full article > >

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Condolences for killing a terrorist?

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula confirmed the deaths of the American citizens Anwar Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, but said their killings went against the principles the United States says it was founded upon.

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At War Blog: Al Qaeda Group Confirms Deaths of Two American Citizens

A secret memo offers a glimpse into the legal debate that led to the Obama administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, in Yemen.

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Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen

Former vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday called last week’s CIA drone strike against al-Qaeda operative Anwar Awlaki a validation of the George W. Bush administration’s terrorist-fighting strategy, and said that President Obama should apologize for his past criticism of those policies. Cheney endorsed the killing of Awlaki as “justified,” despite Awlaki’s U.S. citizenship, and suggested that the Obama White House was being hypocritical when it approved a deadly strike against the New Mexico-born Awlaki while condemning Bush’s use of so-called enhanced interrogation methods of al-Qaeda prisoners. Read full article > >

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Cheney: After Yemen strike, Obama owes apology to Bush

The U.S. State Department issued a “worldwide” alert Saturday, urging overseas travelers to be mindful of “the potential for retaliation against U.S. citizens and interests” following the killing of American-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

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When Anwar al-Awlaki walked out of a home in the northern Yemeni town of Khashef and stepped into a Toyota pickup Friday morning, he had finally entered the crosshairs of an armed drone that flew noiselessly overhead. Few violent jihadists had been hunted more assiduously than Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who through his reported role in a succession of plots targeting the United States had risen near the top of the list of American terrorist targets. Yet he had eluded several airstrikes aimed at him. Read full article > >

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Yemeni al-Qaeda took a blow but remains a threat to U.S.

Huge costs and uncertain outcomes in two wars have led the United States to embrace drones, like those used in the strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, in the fight against terrorism.

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A government spokesman said that the United States should show more appreciation to Yemen’s embattled president for his assistance in finding Anwar al-Awlaki.

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Yemen Notes Its Own Role in U.S. Attack on Militant