Nobody even cares much when they do it to American citizens.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a American citizen born in New Mexico.
Didn't stop several US administrations from hunting down him and his family to the other side of the planet to systematically assassinate them.
He was killed by a drone strike in September 2011 [0], in October 2011 his 16 years old son, also a American citizen, was killed in another drone strike in Yemen.
One of his surviving daughters, was killed during a NAVY Seal raid in 2017, when she was only 8 years old. It was the first mission greenlit under Trump, the Pentagon and US press claimed "no civilian casulties" [1], while local sources later reported dozens of dead women and children [2].
For over a decade this family of Americans has been targeted and hunted down with the full might of the American military and Five Eyes surveillance apparatus, but it's all okay because they are "terrorists".
It seems like Anwar al-Awlaki was what the US call a terrorist. I don't know why the CIA killed his kids though. It's too much of a coincidence that two of his kids were killed.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a American citizen born in New Mexico.
Didn't stop several US administrations from hunting down him and his family to the other side of the planet to systematically assassinate them.
He was killed by a drone strike in September 2011 [0], in October 2011 his 16 years old son, also a American citizen, was killed in another drone strike in Yemen.
One of his surviving daughters, was killed during a NAVY Seal raid in 2017, when she was only 8 years old. It was the first mission greenlit under Trump, the Pentagon and US press claimed "no civilian casulties" [1], while local sources later reported dozens of dead women and children [2].
For over a decade this family of Americans has been targeted and hunted down with the full might of the American military and Five Eyes surveillance apparatus, but it's all okay because they are "terrorists".
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/us-servicemember...
[2] https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-o...