{"id":28528,"date":"2011-10-01T01:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T01:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_drone_killing_of_american_al-awlaki_prompts_legal_moral_debate\/"},"modified":"2011-10-01T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T01:26:18","slug":"u-s-_drone_killing_of_american_al-awlaki_prompts_legal_moral_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28528","title":{"rendered":"U.S. drone killing of American al-Awlaki prompts legal, moral debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. drone killing of American-born and raised Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a major figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has re-energized a national debate over the legal and moral quandaries of a government deliberately killing a citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has been roiling throughout the U.S. campaign against terrorism, but Friday&#8217;s drone missile killing of al-Awlaki and a second American, Samir Khan, provided a stark, concrete case of a U.S. policy that authorizes death for terrorists even when they&#8217;re Americans, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p>A government source who was briefed Friday morning by the CIA confirmed the U.S. missile strike, which killed two other persons in a car in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/30\/politics\/targeting-us-citizens\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. drone killing of American-born and raised Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a major figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has re-energized a national debate over the legal and moral quandaries of a government deliberately killing a citizen.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28528\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,201,143,144,114,108,148,486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}