| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/07/29, 10:53 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. citizen overseas is linked to acts of terror in the United States. He repeatedly calls for more American killings. On the run in a foreign desert, he is beyond the reach of the U.S. justice system. So the president, acting to protect the country, orders him killed. A CIA drone strike takes him out in Yemen.
Simple, right?
Maybe not.
Do U.S.-born terrorists abroad, in effect fugitives from this country's justice, have the same rights as other Americans protecting them from extra-judicial killings?
The case of Anwar al-Awlaki has all the makings of a possible constitutional crisis in the making,
with the president and his executive branch on one side, perhaps joined by the legislative branch, matched up against the federal courts on the other.
At a hearing earlier this month in Washington, a federal judge asked a Justice Department official whether the Obama administration really believed "a U.S. citizen targeted by the United
States in a foreign country has no constitutional rights?"
Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico in 1971, the son of Yemeni parents. His parents returned to Yemen, taking along their 7-year-old son. Though he returned to the United States to earn a college degree and served as an imam at a U.S. mosque, he became increasingly radicalized. He returned to the Middle East a changed man.
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