Anwar Al-Awlaki Killed

We woke this morn­ing to the news that Anwar al-​​Awlaki, one of the remain­ing lead­ers of Al-​​Qaeda, was killed ear­lier today in Yemen. Al-​​Awaki was the Amer­i­can born Al-​​Qaeda imam behind sev­eral ter­ror­ist attempts in the United States over the last sev­eral years. Details about the attack against him are sketchy, but it appears that he was killed while trav­el­ling by car within norther Yemen near the Saudi border.

Of course this does not mean that the war with Al-​​Qaeda is over. There will be those who have enough hate to assume his place. But it shows that Amer­ica is will­ing and able to defend itself against those who want to harm inno­cent peo­ple in the name of a per­verted God. All of the lead­ers who have been killed or cap­tured so far preached a doc­trine of hatred teach­ing the poor and igno­rant to sac­ri­fice their lives for a mis­guided cause, but the same lead­ers have all worked hard to hide (some­times behind the skirts of their wives) from cap­ture or pun­ish­ment while liv­ing a life of rel­a­tive ease. These men are not mar­tyrs or heroes. They are only thugs tak­ing advan­tage of gullible fol­low­ers, like the moronic “shoe bomber” pic­tured here.

It is good news how­ever that al-​​Awlaki is dead. He will no longer be able to use his knowl­edge of Amer­ica as tool against Amer­ica. And the more suc­cess­ful we are in tak­ing the lives of our ene­mies, those who aspire to take a vis­i­ble role as an enemy of the U.S. will have to think more than once about it. One should not be deluded; if some­one takes aim at Amer­ica, he makes him­self a tar­get at the same time.

To read about the suc­cess­ful attack on al-​​Awlaki fol­low this link:

U.S.-Born Ter­ror Boss Anwar Al-​​Awlaki Killed | Fox News.