Lawyers Seeking Terror Suspect’s Case Sue U.S. -- New York TimesWASHINGTON — A group of human rights lawyers want to stop the Obama administration from authorizing the military and the C.I.A. to kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen believed to be hiding in Yemen.
But the group has found itself in a Catch-22-like bind: because the government has designated Mr. Awlaki a terrorist, it would be a crime for the lawyers to file a lawsuit challenging the government’s attempts to kill him.
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More News On The Legal Right For the U.S. To Target For Assassination U.S. Citizens
Civil rights groups sue Treasury over targeting of terror suspects for killing -- Washington Post
Treasury unit grants license for al-Awlaki lawyers -- AP
Treasury to allow Anwar al-Awlaki lawsuit -- Politico
Lawyers Win Right to Aid U.S. Target -- New York Times
Government grants license to challenge targeting of U.S. terrorists -- CNN
ACLU Sues U.S. Government Over Awlaki's Hit List Designation -- ABC News
The Dean of the Al Qaeda Bar Strikes Again -- The American
My Comment: I take offense to the news media labeling these lawyers as civil/human rights lawyers .... they are not. They are lawyers who are in the pay of (and/or support of) the most extreme forms of radical Islam and Jihad.
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You mean in your comment that these lawyers are working for AL-CIAda....
They are working as lawyers, but their clients are always always always radical Jihadists. Human rights lawyers .... they are definitely not.
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