Samir Khan

Type: Person

Name: Samir Khan

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

American held in Pakistan was killed in drone strike

PESHAWAR, May 23: An American citizen killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said on Thursday.The Obama administration revealed on Wednesday ... [Published DAWN Group - May 24 2013]

Entities: Pakistan, Drone, Shabqadar (Pakistan), Counter-Terrorism, Yemen

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 3 reports

Anwar Al-Awlaki

In Drone Speech, Obama Gets Slippery on Killing U.S. Citizens

President Obama has an eerie and alarming ability to detach himself from his own dubious actions.This character trait was on full display in his speech on Thursday at the National Defense University.When he talked about the need to shut down Guantanamo, ... [Published Progressive Magazine - May 24 2013]

Entities: Anwar Al-Awlaki, Barack Obama, Drone

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Drone use legal, effective, just: Obama

font size decrease font size increase font sizeUS President Barack Obama has defended his administration's use of drones as legal, effective, and just.The US president claimed the strikes have been effective in targeting militants and have made the ... [Published IRIB World Service - May 24 2013]

Entities: Drone, Barack Obama, Yemen, Assassination, Eric Holder

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

U.S. acknowledges killing of four U.S. citizensin counterterrorism operations

The Obama administration Wednesday for the first time acknowledged killing four U.S. citizens in âcounterterrorism operationsâ abroad. The deaths of three of the Americans â Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Awlaki, and Samir ... [Published Lucianne.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Counter-Terrorism, United States, Anwar Al-Awlaki

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 101 reports

Eric Holder

Obama Administration Admits Drone Strikes Accidentally Killed U.S. Citizens

Washington, May 23 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration has formally acknowledged U.S. drone strikes killed four U.S. citizens in Yemen and Pakistan.In a letter to the U.S. Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed the United States deliberately ... [Published Radio Habana Cuba - May 23 2013]

Entities: Drone, Obama Administration, Eric Holder, Yemen, United States

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Amnesty: US drone strikes seem illegal

Amnesty International has delivered a damning indictment of the Obama administration's use of drone strikes overseas and questioned its legality. Amnesty said on Wednesday that US drone policy, which is shrouded in secrecy, appears to carry out extrajudicial ... [Published Morning Star Online - May 23 2013]

Entities: Drone, Illegal, National Defence University, Salil Shetty, Samir Khan

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Opening Act: Anwar al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, Jude Kenan Mohammed

Yesterday's release of Eric Holder's targeted killing letter was the apertif for today's presidential speech on foreign policy. The Wall Street Journal's preview spoils a line about Gitmo. The House Ways and Means committee, being helpful, creates ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - May 23 2013]

Entities: Samir Khan, United States, Counter-Terrorism, Josh Rogin

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 4 reports

Yes, America Says: America Drones the American People

The U.S. government admitted for the first time Wednesday that it intentionally droned American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki RELATED: Obama, who has a "kill list" of terrorist suspects, RELATED: The letter also said that the United States had killed three ... [Published Yahoo! News - May 22 2013]

Entities: Drone, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Samir Khan

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

U.S. drone strikes kill 4 Americans since ?09

Al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric, was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen. The other two known cases are Samir Khan, who was killed in the same drone strike as al-Awlaki and al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, a Denver native, ... [Published Durango Herald - May 23 2013]

Entities: Drone, Yemen, Samir Khan, United States

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Obama plans shift on drone strikes, Guantanamo

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of ... [Published TwinCities.com - May 23 2013]

Entities: Drone, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Guantanamo (Cuba), Yemen

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Drone Strikes Justified - Avoiding War Realities is Not

Up close and personal - that describes targeting individuals in wartime, even when impersonal drone aircraft and electronics are employed.On March 7, the United States Senate voted 63-34 to confirm John Brennan to head the CIA, but only after intensive ... [Published Scripps Howard News Service - May 20 2013]

Entities: Drone, DUE PROCESS, Phoenix (Arizona, United States), CIA Central Intelligence Agency

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

Jihadist magazine in CIA's sights

The United States and Britain are intensifying a search for the editor of al-Qaeda's English language magazine, after its bomb-making recipes were followed by the Boston Marathon attackers.The CIA is believed to have stepped up efforts to find Yahya Ibrahim, ... [Published New Zealand Herald - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: jihadist, FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bomb, Scott Stewart

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