Anwar al-Awlaki was American-born cleric whose fiery sermons made him a larger-than-life figure in the shadowy world of jihad. Al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen by a U.S. missile (drone) strike in September 2011, raising legal questions as to whether the U.S. government could order an American citizen to be executed without a trial. By the time he was killed, he had become a key member of the terror group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was involved in two failed terror plots against the United States and was the founder of AQAP's pioneering English language on-line propaganda tool "Inspire Magazine". One was a 2009 scheme to explode a bomb hidden in an operative's underwear on a U.S.-bound airliner and the other was a 2010 plot involving bombs hidden in printers on cargo planes. Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico to parents from Yemen, while his father was doing graduate work at U.S. universities. His father, Nasser al-Awlaki, was a Fulbright…
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