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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the father of al Qaeda ideologue Anwar al Awlaki, who sought to have his son removed from a list targeting him for assassination. The judge said the father had no standing to file the case and the executive branch must make such a decision.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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