{"id":9006,"date":"2011-10-21T03:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T03:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2011-10-21T03:58:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T03:58:43","slug":"obama-has-awlakis-16-yr-old-son-friends-killed-at-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/10\/obama-has-awlakis-16-yr-old-son-friends-killed-at-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Has Awlaki\u2019s 16-Yr-Old Son, Friends Killed at Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/obama_fist_bump_0605.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9008\" title=\"obama_fist_bump_0605\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/obama_fist_bump_0605.jpg?resize=360%2C235\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#000000;\">16-Year-Old US Citizen, Friends Were Eating Dinner When Missile Landed<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The extra-legal assassination of New Mexico cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was certainly controversial in its own right, but reports about the assassination targeting some sort of terrorist convoy seem to be crumbling under evidence and the number of children killed in the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Among the slain was also Abdel-Rahman Awlaki,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/anwar-al-awlakis-family-speaks-out-against-his-sons-deaths\/2011\/10\/17\/gIQA8kFssL_story.html?wprss=\">Anwar\u2019s 16-year-old son<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">, one of his cousins Ahmed Abdelrahman Awlaki, and several of their friends, who were all teenage boys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And despite the stereotype, the teenage boys weren\u2019t out \u201cdoing terrorism\u201d in some vague non-specific manner in the Shabwa Province. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/18\/us-yemen-awlaki-idUSTRE79H71E20111018\">According to a statement from relatives, they were out to dinner, eating \u201cunder the moon light\u201d when US missiles landed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Though the Obama Administration seems pretty comfortable with assassinating the elder Awlaki, even though he was a US citizen and not charged with any crimes, the killing of the assorted other people, including several teenagers, seems considerably more suspect. Killing children with missiles isn\u2019t exactly new to the president, of course, but Abdel-Rahman\u2019s status as a natural-born US citizen who was never even suspected of a crime is likely to make it difficult to sweep his assassination under the rug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/10\/18\/out-to-dinner-us-assassination-in-yemen-killed-teens\/\">Fuente<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16-Year-Old US Citizen, Friends Were Eating Dinner When Missile Landed The extra-legal assassination of New Mexico cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was certainly controversial in its own..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,97,119],"tags":[197,226,291],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-us-news","category-war","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-yemen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/obama_fist_bump_0605_9006_9e34e.jpg?fit=360%2C235&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}