Thursday, December 1, 2011

Citizens Targeted If At War With US

Obama Lawyers: Citizens Targeted If At War With US -- Yahoo News/AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets when they take up arms with al-Qaida, top national security lawyers in the Obama administration said Thursday.

The lawyers were asked at a national security conference about the CIA killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen and leading al-Qaida figure. He died in a Sept. 30 U.S. drone strike in the mountains of Yemen.

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My Comment: If President Bush was doing this .... I can hear the screaming. But .... different President .... different reaction.

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