Nasser al-awlaki biography
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Obituary: Anwar al-Awlaki
In May 2010, Faisal Shahzad, the US citizen of Pakistani origin who has admitted attempting to bomb New York's Times Square, said he had been inspired by the violent rhetoric of Awlaki, according to US officials.
Two months later, the US treasury department named Awlaki a "specially designated global terrorist", blocked his assets and made it a crime for Americans to do business with him or for his benefit.
And in late October of that year, he was the only man named by the head of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) when he outlined major threats to the country in his first public speech.
Only days later, two suspect packages containing bombs and addressed to synagogues in the US city of Chicago were sent from Yemen. They were carried by plane and intercepted in the UK and Dubai.
US officials blamed al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for the failed attack and again linked the plot to Awlaki.
In late 2010, the Yemeni authorit
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Anwar al-Awlaki
American-Yemeni imam and suspected Islamist extremist (1971–2011)
Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (Arabic: أنور العولقي, romanized: Anwar al-'Awlaqī; April 21 or 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American-Yemeni lecturer and jihadist who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki became the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and killed by a drone strike from the U.S. government.[7][8] U.S. government officials have claimed that al-Awlaki was a key organizer for the Islamist stridbar group al-Qaeda.
Al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 to parents from Yemen. Growing up partly in the United States and partly in Yemen, he attended various U.S. universities in the 1990s and early 2000s.[9] He also worked as an imam despite having no religious qualifications and almost no religious education.[10] Al-Awlaki returned to Y
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Nasser al-Awlaki
Yemeni scholar and politician (1946–2021)
Nasser al-Awlaki (Arabic: ناصر العولقي; 1946 – 28 September 2021[1]) was a Yemeni scholar and politician, serving as Agriculture Minister of Yemen in Ali Abdullah Saleh's government. He was also President of Sana'a University.[2][3][4]
Biography
[edit]He was a Fulbright Scholar and earned a master's degree in agricultural economics at New Mexico State University in 1971.[5] He received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska, and worked at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1977.[6][7] Nasser al-Awlaki served as Agriculture Minister of Yemen in Ali Abdullah Saleh's government. He was also President of Sana'a University.[2][3][4] Yemen's prime minister from 2007 to 2011, Ali Mohammed Mujur, was a relative.[8]
He was the father of Anwar and grandfather of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who were killed in sep