Trump carries on Obama tradition of killing children in Yemen
NOVANEWS
By Deion Seruelo
Nora Anwar al-Awlaki, an 8-year old U.S. citizen, is first casualty of Trump administration foreign policy; her father and brother were killed by the Obama administration.
In August 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit to subdue the Obama administration’s planned assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico-born imam and lecturer residing in Yemen. While the case’s proceedings lasted for months, it was eventually dismissed by a federal judge and Awlaki was assassinated by a CIA drone strike later in September 2011. The CIA alleged that al-Awlaki was deeply involved in jihadist military operations as a senior recruitment officer but never gave him the opportunity to appear before a court. As a resul...