Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Anwar al Awlaki’s son said he hoped ‘”to attain martyrdom as my father attained it” just before he was killed in a US Predator airstrike, according to a Yemeni journalist. Nasser al Awlaki, Anwar’s father, denied he supports terrorism.

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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