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NEWS > BUSINESS > AL-QAEDA CONSIDERING LEGAL ACTION FOR THE KILLING OF AL-AWLAKI
AL-QAEDA CONSIDERING LEGAL ACTION FOR THE KILLING OF AL-AWLAKI
October 11 2011
Kabul, Afghanistan – No one in the world protested the killing on Osama bin Laden. Not the American public, not the Pakistanis (putting aside their protests over the method), not even al-Qaeda put up a hue and cry over the death of their beloved leader. He was, after all, the most wanted man in the world and that is something very tough to overcome.
Such widespread acceptance, though, has not been the case with the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Yemeni al-Qaeda leader killed in a drone strike a few weeks back. Everyone from family members to Presidential candidate Ron Paul have questioned the killing of al-Awlaki, an American citizen killed without trial or even arrest. Now an even more powerful critic has stepped forward to defend the legacy of the al-Qaeda operative, the organization itself which has now sicked its legal hounds on the U.S. government, laying the groundwork for a possible lawsuit, or worse, over the killing of the Yemeni leader.
“Where are what they keep talking about regarding freedom, justice, human rights and respect of freedoms?!” al-Qaeda said in part on their official website. According to insiders, the organization has already directed its legal team to look into the case.
The U.S. government recently revealed a new memo which allowed for the killing of al-Awlaki but it’s not yet clear how legally binding such memos might be.
“This is a tough situation for the U.S. for a lot of reasons. No one would argue that al-Awlaki wasn’t a dangerous person and that he needed to be taken out of the picture, but he was an American on foreign soil who had never been convicted of any crime. We know what he did, but the essence of the American legal system is innocent until proven guilty, something which just did not apply here,” said Scrape TV Legal analyst Gabe Hawthorne. “That is the argument against, and likely the argument that al-Qaeda and its lawyers will be making in the coming weeks and months. There’s also the issue with Samir Khan who was also killed in the strike. He was also an American citizen but not involved in terrorist attacks, just blogging, though I imagine that most American politicians consider that a crime worthy of death unto itself.”
Khan’s family did receive a condolence phone call after the killing. It’s not clear if he was mentioned in the memo.
“The real issue for the American government is that this gives a new weapon to al- 
Qaeda. For years they have been on the obverse side of the legal argument but all of a sudden they now have an initiative that they could very well use against the Americans. A lawsuit would certainly be expensive for both sides, but would give the group some legitimacy that they have been lacking,” continued Hawthorne. “With it, they can easily make the argument that they are in the right, that this is the reason for the whole venture itself. That is Americans are willing to kill their own citizens without trial then they would have no trouble killing foreigners, and winning such an argument in court would be devastating to the American efforts and a boon to al-Qaeda. Of course they may have lousy lawyers and may not win at all, but it’s a new front the Americans will have to defend and that is not a good thing.”
U.S. forces recently killed at least three al-Qaeda lawyers via a drone strike in northern Pakistan.
William Ashford, Business Correspondent
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