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Originally Posted by Homeslice
This article makes the assumption that Presidential approval was obtained or even required.
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It isn't an assumption. It has been reported multiple times that Obama put Awlaki on a targeted killings list toward the beginning of 2010, to the point that Awlaki's father sued the government to get him removed from it. Obviously this was unsuccessful. For what it is worth the Yemeni government also issued a capture or kill warrant against him quite a while ago. From what I understand they also promised that if he was turned in they would not turn him over to America.
He knew the US and Yemeni governments were after him. He could have turned himself in to either government and used the opportunity to attempt to prove his innocence. Instead he decided to hide out and continue to call for Muslim violence against and within America. That it didn't work out so well is his tough shit.
