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Military sued over al-Awlaki Yemen drone death
"The killings violated fundamental rights afforded to all US citizens, including the right not to be deprived of life without due process of law," the legal complaint says.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union say they are giving legal assistance to the plaintiffs.
"There is something terribly wrong when a 16-year-old American boy can be killed by his own government without any accountability or explanation," said Pardiss Kebriaei, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
A justice department spokesman told Reuters news agency the department had seen the complaint and was reviewing it.
Correspondents say the case could face procedural hurdles before it is settled.
In March, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the drone strike policy, saying the US "may use force abroad against a senior operational leader of a foreign terrorist organisation with which the United States is at war - even if that individual happens to be a US citizen."
The US government has not officially accepted responsibility for carrying out the strikes.
The Department of Justice, which is expected to represent the defendants, could contend that state secrets would be expo
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The Founding Fathers of American Jihad: The Impacts and Legacies of Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan, and Ahmad Abousamra
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Three Americans have had a profound impact on the evolution of jihadist English-language propaganda, particularly in the online magazine format, and revolutionized jihadi strategic, operational, and ideological trends in the West: Anwar al-Awlaki (1971-2011) and Samir Khan (1985-2011) who edited Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire, and Ahmad Abousamra (1981-2017) who edited the Islamic State’s Dabiq and Rumiyah magazines. The Americans were not the first to publish English-language magazines designed to appeal to Western audiences and mobilize support for wars in Muslim lands. That distinction arguably goes to the Cultural Council of Afghanistan Resistance and its quarterly magazine Afghan Jehad, which was in print from 1987 to 1992.1 Nor were the Americans the first to produce an online jihadist English-language magazine with the pioneering Australian magazine Nida’ul Islam emerging in the 1990s over a decade before Khan’s Jihad Recollections(a fact acknowledged in the magazine’s second issue).2 Yet these three Americans, in their own ways, revolutionized jihadist English-language propaganda. What separates Al-Awlaki, Khan, and Abousamra f