With death of al-Awlaki, have Obama and Koh reversed policy?

Anwar al-Alaki has not appeared on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list or on lists at other federal agencies. (Screen shot from FBI website, US Govnmt.)President Barack Obama has enjoyed far more support from media and international advocacy groups for his actions in the war on terrorism than President George W. Bush did.

For instance Obama’s State Dept. legal adviser Harold Hongju Koh said during a press conference in 2010, “This president of the United States said that torture and cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment will not be used going forward with regard to interrogation practices. So there has been a clear turning of the page.”

Koh should now explain why killing someone is more benign than waterboarding. Thus far the international rage towards Bush remains at bay with Obama in office.

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US imam praises Detroit terror attack, says bomber was his student

By Chris Carter

[]WTC site by Kay B. Day]An American-born, pro-jihad cleric has reportedly praised the failed Christmas airliner attack and claimed the alleged perpetrator was his student.

Anwar al-Awlaki is a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents. Before leaving the U.S. in 2002, he served as an imam in Denver, San Diego, and the Washington, D.C. area. While in San Diego, he became the “spiritual advisor” for two of the 9/11 hijackers (and had contact with a third). He also admits to having advised the man who gunned down 14 unarmed Americans at Fort Hood, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Al-Awlaki now lives in Yemen, and counter terrorism experts believe that he works for al Qaeda.

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