Defend Michael Behenna

Defend Michael Behenna An American Hero

You know I have heard of this soldier but had never researched to find the truth. Well, here it is.

Good freakin’ grief. The Obama administration has lost their mind. What the hell?
You know there is something dead wrong when America won’t defend the brave men who defend our country. This is ludicrous and unbelievable.

Please contact the Michael Behenna Defense Fund where you can watch an Interview on Michael Savage Show, see a Letter to Secretary Robert Gates, read The Michael Behenna Story by Carrie Fatigante, see Clemency Letter from Oklahoma Congressional Delegation, read LA Times article on Michael – Part 1, read LA Times article on Michael – Part 2, SIGN PETITION and know The Testimony The Prosecutors Didn’t Let The Jury Hear (From Their Own Expert Witness)

This atrocity must not be allowed to continue.  I have never trained as an Army Ranger, but I know about some of the training these men receive, a life they prepare to live all for the sake of honor and serving this great country.  The seven army values are: Loyalty | Duty | Respect | Selfless service | Honor | Integrity | Personal courage.  Do you have any idea what it takes to uphold these? These values according to TRADOC (The army training and Doctrine Command).

Let’s take “Selfless Service” = Selfless service is placing your duty before your personal desires. It is the ability to endure hardships and insurmountable odds because of love of fellow Soldiers and our country.

Placing your duty before your personal desires has always been key to the uniqueness of the American Soldier. As citizen-Soldiers, we claim our service to the nation, state and community to be an especially valuable contribution. Imagine a unit where the value of selfless service was not instilled. The unit receives a call to active duty and has only two weeks to deploy. Instead of the unit working as a cohesive team in preparation for deployment, many Soldiers start to actively seek ways to avoid deployment. Remember, the selfless Soldier does not make decisions and take actions designed to promote self, further a career or enhance personal comfort.

For leaders, the age-old phrase of “mission, men and me” still rings true today. Selfless service is the force that encourages every Soldier. It is critical to the esprit and well-being of military organizations. By serving selflessly while on and off duty, we greatly enhance our value to our fellow citizens.

Or, how about LOYALTY, Obama FAILS the first test.  Good freakin’ grief.

Loyalty = Loyalty is the faithful adherence to a person, unit or Army. It is the thread that binds our actions together and causes us to support each other, our superiors, our family and our country. Loyalty: bear true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit and other Soldiers

Supporting a superior or a program even though it is being openly criticized by peers or subordinates requires courage and loyalty. A loyal intermediate would try to explain the rationale behind the decision and support the decision maker. When we establish loyalty to our Soldiers, the unit, our superiors, our family and the Army, we must be sure the “correct ordering” of our obligations are being accomplished and not the easiest. There is no clear rule as to which comes first. Sometimes it will be the service, sometimes the family and sometimes the Soldier.

Open criticism and being disloyal to leaders, Soldiers and the Army destroys the foundation of the organization and results in diminished mission accomplishment. However, loyalty should not be confused with blind obedience to illegal orders. We all take the oath to obey the orders of superiors appointed over us “according to law and regulations.”

Do you think Mr. Obama or any of the politicians (short of the ones that have already served) would ever/could ever give “SELFLESS SERVIE”.  Hell no.

To read more about the Army Core Values.  These are army core values, not Ranger values.  An army Ranger is much much more.

Additional Reading
CMBlake, I’ve posted it before, YES. Tarheeltalker Washington Style Jeopardy  Voting Female SPEAKS! Murtha – It aint America No Mo Tea Party Voters show shift in PA LisainTX Illuminati: Mongol of the New World Order? Voting Female Speaks! Obama to Senate Dems   Obama didnt’ say anything negative about Las Vegas!  Foxwoods Massachusetts Massacre! SamHenry’s Obama Unleashed  Rjjrd Obama to give Haitian Gangs Amnesty Tarheeltalker Has the 2012 Campaign begun? Diary of a Mad Conservative SCOTUS rules to protect free speech Good Time Politics Obama falls into a big sinkhole! Dancing with Czars Rathke and SEIU speaking on 2010 Census????? LisainTX MLK was a Progressive???? M2-Freeviews Dem Healthcare Ponzi Scheme  Diane at FreedomSwings UK goes to Severe Terrorist Alert  CMBlake6 Henry Wallace biggest M…. Newsbird, you go girl!  Michelle Obama appears to have plastic surgery to remove her PERMANENT SCOWL, Buck Teeth I guess we’d have to remove her elbows to keep her arms from going all the way to her knees, oh good grief! Foxwood at The Animal Farm Progressive Pinheads

More Groveling by Obama

Bowing is Obamas reflex to everyone that is superior to him, even Terrrorist

(h/t Gabriel at Ace of Spades)

Article Posted byRedState streiff (Profile)  Sunday, January 31st at 8:46PM EST

For the life of me I really don’t understand what in Heaven’s name is going on here. When I first encountered it at Ace of Spades I thought they were pulling my chain. But the AP cut line makes clear what is going on:

U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.

The mayor of Tampa isn’t a Third World potentate, totalitarian dictator, or terrorist leader so I can’t understand why Obama would be in full-bow mode. Is bowing now the standard way the President greets people these days? Is he misoriented, for some reason, and thinks Tampa is a terrorist stronghold or an enemy of the United States? Does the US owe Tampa a boatload of money and the bow just good business practice?

D.C. State of mind – Obama style

Hey some liberal had this on his site, wonder why? I guess liberals are gluttons for punishment.

He obviously thought and said (in so many words) on his blog that Obama is so “misunderstood”.  You know what else this left wing weenie democrat said? Huh?????   The left wing weenie  person said, “IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT”! And all the traveling B. Hussein O. is doing is to clean up America’s reputation???? WTH???? America’s reputation is worse now under the usurper than it has been for the last Two Hundred Years!

The LEFT is truly DELUSIONAL.

Good freakin grief! Ahahah

Ya’ll, this is so stinking funny! Enjoy!

Additional reading

Voting Female Speaks! Obama Pelosi Reid Secret Obamacare Hail Mary

Obama to grant TPS (Temporary Protected Status) to undocumented Haitian immigrants-(Temporary?) Another Lie

We all know how much Obama hates America!

I am all for assisting our fellow man, as we are commanded to.  No one would not think of assisting anyone or any country that has been recently devastated as Haiti or any of the many other recently devasted countries due to acts of God.

Now, Don’t think for one minute this will be temporary.  We all know Hussein O. is all out for himself, his cohorts are all out for themselves too.  Even if it means throwing B. Hussein O. under the bus, we’ve already seen that.  As soon as BO tries to stop his downward sprial the far left that has been pulling the strings will throw BO to the wolves, he is nothing to them.

Neverthe less, this November for the Dems will be a blood bath at the polls.

How convenient Rahn Emanuel “never letting a  good crisis” go to waste.  Of course Obama and Co exploiting a suffering people for his own ill gotten gain, but isn’t that what he always does?  Exploit the poor and oppressed, YES but only when it advances the Liberal Left Movement.  The Democrap party is known for doing just that in every situation.

Now, Charlie Rangel will always be distorting the truth when it suits him and his assistance in further ruining America, along with Rahm, Barack, Soros, Pelosi, Reid, etc. etc. etc…

Rangel Salutes Obama Administration For Granting TPS To Haitians In America  What a freakin joke, How stupid do they think we are?

45,000 Haitians may be moving to Florida, all for the good of Obama and Co…

Additional Reading

Voting Female Speaks! Obama high on Liberal Balls Beer!  Foxwoods Massachusetts Massacre! SamHenry’s Obama Unleashed  Rjjrd Obama to give Haitian Gangs Amnesty Tarheeltalker Has the 2012 Campaign begun? Diary of a Mad Conservative SCOTUS rules to protect free speech Good Time Politics Obama falls into a big sinkhole! Dancing with Czars Rathke and SEIU speaking on 2010 Census????? LisainTX MLK was a Progressive???? M2-Freeviews Dem Healthcare Ponzi Scheme  Diane at FreedomSwings UK goes to Severe Terrorist Alert  CMBlake6 Henry Wallace biggest M…. Newsbird, you go girl!  Michelle Obama appears to have plastic surgery to remove her PERMANENT SCOWL, Buck Teeth I guess we’d have to remove her elbows to keep her arms from going all the way to her knees, oh good grief!

Obama and Co.: Coakley lost, not because of us…Arrogant Idiots

Yes! Obama it IS because of you and your Communist Socialist Zombie Trolls doing your best to destroy America and everything that has made her great! GO AWAY! ASAP!

B. Hussein O. and his Radical Agenda to kill off America, not hard to figure out at all

 

This is what Osama Obama thinks about every single American, Liberal or Conservative...he is not discriminating, He hates you ALL THE SAME!

Yes, that is correct The Usurper in Chief has an agenda and it is not hard to figure out, actually the man is an open book, in regards to his Radical about near crazy (people I have come to beleive without a doubt the man is Schizophrenic (we know narcissistic)) Communist Agenda.  Did I say Obama is an “Open Book”?  Well of course we know that is only true of his Communist Agenda and Intentions.  He is a closed book when it comes to his credentials (NONE) to be an American President.  Yes his first day in office and first line of business was to further conceal his records.

Hey folks, had to throw this in here.  Have you noticed how freakin stupid and idiotic this administration is?  The OBAMA administration has Changed Osama Bin Laden’s NAME!!!! Ahahahaha  What a bunch of weenies! Just like their leader follower is.   They are so scared about every time anyone (AND THEY HAVE) slips up and calls Barack Obama, Barack Osama! Ahahahahha.

ISN’T THAT FUNNY?????????  I think it’s hilarious! Ahahaha

Hey! Why doesn’t he take Michelle to the Muslim countries? Huh? Because he’d have to bust her in the chops on a regular basis and we all know Michelle busts him in the chops, Michelle runs that house, In other words, Michelle wears the pants and Osama Obama wears the lace on his panites.

All one has to do is just look at the proof we have of his constant and consistant hiding of his personal records.  His first day in office was to further conceal his records from the public eye.  You think he’s honest? Nope.  No, No he’s not, actually he is a very corrupt, diabolical, and dishonest person.  Since day one of his campaign then presidency, he has done nothing but tell one bald face lie after the other.  Constantly.  It truly is disgusting.  Amazing and disgusting.

Yes, now we know people in Washington hell bent on keeping the Clinton’s out of the White House dug this dirt bag up and shoved him to the front line. 

To further the American Dream? NO.

To have the first black (half/whatever) president? NO.

For the good of America? NO.

We know now, it’s because he is and has been nothing but a puppet to further the Radical Communist Agenda of the exact people that put his ridiculous self in any political office at all.  Obama was totally raised and indoctrinated by the same freaks that are destroying America and Americans every month all over the world; Muslim Islamic Extremist bastards. Marxist, Communist, Extremist hell bent on the destruction of America.

Oh, and now Osama has got everyone (dems, lefties, lame stream media, etc.) calling every screw up because, “We inherited this mess”, what babies, unable to move forward only continuing the “blame game”.  This just proves what weak scared weenies they all are.  Good freakin’ grief.

Further reading!

Voting Female Speaks!:  MSNBC’s take on Scott Brown? Vote 10 times to keep ‘those bastards out’; Ed? you gonna do a shooting spree next?

Coakley to Mass Voters: “Curt Schilling (Scott Brown supporter) is a Yankees Fan”; That’s equiv to telling voters Obama is a Republican; On What PLANET do you live?!?!; Update: Response from Curt Schilling

Free Views: The Democrat-Socialist “Solution” to Healthcare Can be Summarized with 2 Words

Kyniko’s Moonbat Patrol: Obama Schlepping For Newsweek Magazine??

On My Watch The writings of Sam Henry: Breaking OFA Letter sends troops after Talk Radio

Check out CREEPING SHARIA for a real Kick in the pants! Los Angeles Firm Launches Sharia-Compliant Hedge Fund

Check out Dancing Czars Brown Supporters: The Most Motivated Voters Ever?

Check out “From the Right” Unprecedented Warming and Swimming in Cash

Over Three Dozen Terrorist Training Camps in USA-Video

Hello People, what is so great about several of the Terrorist Training Camps is that Muslim Women are taught to slit the throats of their victims, law abiding Americans of course. See this way they can be very close to the people they intend to infiltrate and murder, isn’t that sweet? These are not Domestic Terrorist, these are the real McCoy! Oh yes they are, you know…The Muslims Islamic Extremist ones, Not the Domestic Terrorist. The only Domestic Terrorist we have are running ruining our country and the government as we speak.

Many of these Terrorist Training Camps are in the Northeast; specifically Hancock, New York. These terrorist and their terrorist camps within the United States are claiming a Muslim majority in the US of A and are “digging in”.

Has anyone wondered why the president does not go to church? I think I can tell you, he’s a closet Muslim and the only reason he attended the Racist Jeremiah Wrights church was because he indoctrinated his congreation in American and Whitie Hate, straight up and B Hussein O LOVED IT!

Dirt Bag Nadal Hasan is being hailed as Allah’s Hero, Ahahahahah.  It has now been proved Coward Hasan had many connections with the Muslim Establishment in the United States.  Remember he yelled Allah Akbar as he cowardly, shamelessly, and brutally murdered 14 unarmed army comrades.  Not only is Nadal Hasan a dirt bag, but a COWARD Too.  Apparently that is what Muslim Islamic Extremist Desire to be remembered as, Scum Bag Cowards.  I really cannot see any act they commit as anything but. I know how proud Muslim Islamic Extremist’s must be of this fact.

Here is a video Muslime Woman (Muslim Islamic Extremist’s) training in the US at throat slitting and etc. by the group, Jamaat ul-Fuqra.

America needs to shut up and hold the CAIR Council on American-Islamic Relations responsible as well as many other Muslim Islamic Facades in the USA accountable and kick their Jihad butts back to where they came from.  Yes of course the Lame Stream Media Government Run Media is partly to blame as they have refused to report The Terrorist ties CAIR currently has.  Despite CAIR’s obvious ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas as well as their agenda to infiltrate and take over America; Americans appear to obviously still be in denial of their ridiculous Pro-Jihadist appetite.

Read More Here

Read Voting Females Blog of Sarah Palin has the answers, Obama Does not; Lastest Al Qaeda Recrutment Tool: Janet Incompitano’s Infidel Photo Invasion of Islamic Modesty

Read Creeping Sharia Blog of Illinois State Police hire Hamas-linked Muslim chaplain

Read Arlenearmys Blog Obama Invites Black Panther Leader to White House

Never More True of the Usurper and Company

Obama, his Communist Pigs, and their take over of America

How much more true than this? Reading this blog, linked below. Works and Days; Victor Davis Hanson.

December 23rd, 2009 9:54 am

Where Did These Guys Come From?

The Origins of Obamism
I do not think it will be easy to delay Obamism. It is not just that both houses of Congress are under liberal leadership with ample majorities, with a White House and captive media egging them on. The problem is that now the entire engine of the federal government is harnessed in the most unapologetic way to pushing through a far left agenda. There is no shame, no hesitancy in using the full powers of the state. How does that work out? Without qualification (remember we are in a new age of transparency and ethical reform) votes are bought with hundred-million-dollar earmarks; the attorney general predicates judicial action on the political ramifications of indicting or not indicting; federal bureaucracies (watch the EPA if cap and trade stalls) are devoted to the new Caesar rather than the letter of the law. Such a strange scenario we have found ourselves in—a clear majority of Americans is opposed to almost everything Obama has to offer; congressional representatives know they are acting against the will of the people, but know too that they are offered all sorts of borrowed money for their districts to compensate for their unpopular actions. And a charismatic commander in chief believes that he can charm even the angriest of critics, and that anything he promises (Iran’s deadlines, closing of Guantanamo, new transparency, no more lobbyists, etc) means zilch and can be contextualized by another “let me be perfectly clear” speech spiced with a couple of the usual “it would have been impossible for someone as unlikely as me to have become President just (fill in the blanks) years ago” No, I would not count Obama out. So what drives his agenda? What are its origins? Here are the three most prominent catalysts.

Equality of Result
What Barack Obama advocates is as old as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics, the agenda of the classical dêmos and Roman turba. It is why the French Revolution emphasized égalité and fraternité, while the Founding Fathers instead championed the freedom of the individual from the despotism of the state. In short, equality of result doctrine ignores the role of markets, of skills, of tragedy itself that renders some of us ill, others in perfect health, some born gifted, others less so, some evil by nature, others good, and instead promises that the state can even us all out through its power of material redistribution. Give us all the same amount of money and perks at the end of the day, and then utopia reigns under the benevolent watch of Ivy-League professors and organizers. It is a given that what we make is not our own, but predicated on the liberality of society. Thus, for those who were too greedy, too conniving, or even too lucky, the state must step in to ensure that we end up the same. In its most benign form, we know this as progressivism or communitarianism, a big government, high tax philosophy that co-exists within democracy. Its more pernicious strains are socialist, in which the state ensures, through bureaucratic fiat and a labyrinth of laws that curb free expression, that redistribution is institutionalized. And the virulent form (thankfully with the fall of the Soviet Union and the transformation of China not so global-threatening any more) is, of course, a murderous communism, in which any means necessary are justified to ensure the desire ends and the rule of anointed apparat. Remember, history’s greatest killers (Stalin and Mao) do it all “for the people.”

Multiculturalism
But there is another element to Barack Obama besides progressive statism. A number of contemporary –isms and –ologies (multiculturalism, moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, post-modernism) also help to explain Obamism, especially in cultural terms. Our universities subscribe to race/class/gender theory of exploitation, in which much of the unhappiness of today’s women, of today’s nonwhite, and of today’s poor originates with the privileges of the white Christian Western male that are predicated on oppression.

It works like this: The ghetto resident, the denizen of the barrio, the abandoned and divorced waitress with three young children, can all chart their poverty and unhappiness not to accident, fate, bad luck, bad decisions, poor judgment, illegality or drug use, or simple tragedy, but rather exclusively to a system that is rigged to ensure oppression on the basis of race, class, and gender—often insidious and unfathomable except to the sensitive and gifted academic or community organizer.

So Obama combines the age-old belief that the state is there to level the playing field (rather than protect the rights of the individual and secure the safety of the people from foreign threats), with the postmodern notion that government must recompensate those by fiat on the basis on their race or class or gender. Remember all that, and everything from the Professor Gates incident, to the dutiful attendance at the foot of Rev. Wright to Van Jones become logical rather than aberrant. Michelle Obama could make $300,000 and she will always be more a victim than the Appalachian coal miner who earns $30,000, by virtue of her race and gender.

The Chicago Way

A third and final ingredient to Obamism is the Chicago way. Here we see an interesting updated version of the old big-city, Daley thuggery. Rahm Emanuel threatens recalcitrant congressmen with reminders of the long Obama memory. The Axelrod/Jarrett clique ensures that the government channels stimuli to blue-states, that key Congress people are bought off with tens of millions of government largess, that every campaign promise—from no lobbyists and airing on C-span health care debates to posting impending legislation on the Internet for set durations and “reaching across the aisle”—is simply cynical fluff that no sane person would take seriously.

So?

In short, we have a traditional statist bent on redistribution (Obama’s words, not mine), updated with the postmodern belief that race/class/gender oppressions require government affirmative reactions (which also abroad explains why we reach out to enemies and shun allies), all energized by an ends justify the means Chicago bare-knuckles apparat.

And?

These true believers, then, don’t really care that the Blue Dogs (if such really exist) bite the dust in 2010, if Harry Reid goes up in smoke, or indeed, if Barack Obama is reelected. Instead, they will institutionalize an agenda that will affect America for generations, move it sharply to the left, and earn a spot in the academic pantheon of American heroes.

Asking why would Obama & Co. be so self-destructive to push through an array of proposals that have no more than 45% of the public’s support is like asking whether the English Prof who teaches incomprehensible Foucauldian theory worries whether he has only 2 students, or whether the well-off union boss is all that upset that membership has sunk to 30% of the workforce, or multimillion-dollar-earning Sarah Palin-interviewing Katie Couric is worried about her sinking ratings, or whether the New York Times columnists are upset that their mother paper is broke with subscription and readership down, and laying off thousands of blue-collar employees.

Instead, for the true believer, it is all about the self, and the sense of the self—and damn all other considerations. (We saw that with Jimmy Carter as well; that he destroyed liberal Democrat politics for a generation meant nothing; that he won prizes and jet-setted the world for thirty years meant everything. For these people, it is always about them—all the time. Let us eat cake as they end up liberal icons for the duration).

What Are We Left With?

The most blatant cynicism in recent American political history—a man who ran as a bipartisan who is the most partisan we’ve seen, a healer whose even flippant comments are designed to offend, a statist who assumes that the sheared sheep cannot stampede somewhere else, a reformer who trusts his honey-laced rhetoric can disguise Daley style-corruption.

On that happy note.

Everything, as my dear late mother lectured me, happens for a reason, or at least presents a sort of logic—irony, paradox, karma, and nemesis being the best ways of interpreting our unfathomable existences. It took messianic narcissistic Barack Obama to expose the full extent of the mess that a once noble tradition of 19^th-century liberalism had devolved into. Only he could have rammed it down the throats of the American people, and when he is done, we will suffer, but also sicken of it for quite a while.

Obama: Foreign Cops will have New Police powers in the U.S.

 

 

 

 

In his ignorance Obama continuously, aggressively, and purposefully weaking America.

 

Obama gives foreign cops new police powers in U.S.
Sovereignty apparently set aside as agency exempted from law

Hey, my name is Barack my next act will be giving the KEYS OF THE HEN HOUSE TO THE FOX… Ahahaha

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Posted: December 28, 2009
8:57 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Another more exhaustive review of this at Blackfive.net

A little-discussed executive order from President Obama giving foreign cops new police powers in the United States by exempting them from such drudgery as compliance with the Freedom of Information Act is raising alarm among commentators who say INTERPOL already had most of the same privileges as diplomats.

At David Horowitz’s Newsreal, Michael van der Galien said the issue is Obama’s expansion of President Ronald Reagan’s order from 1983 that originally granted those diplomatic privileges.

Reagan’s order carried certain exemptions requiring that INTERPOL operations be subject to several U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act. Obama, however, removed those restrictions in his Dec. 16 amendment to Executive Order 12425.

That means, van der Galien wrote today, “this foreign law enforcement organization can operate free of an important safeguard against government and abuse.”

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“‘Property and assets,’ including the organization’s records, cannot be searched or seized. Their physical locations are now immune from U.S. legal or investigative authorities,” he wrote.

Obama’s Executive Order 12425 said he was removing the Reagan limitations on INTERPOL:

Anwar al-Awlaki and dirt bag Nidal Hasan

Wanted: Alive for deportation to the nearest desert, leave Hasan in wheelchair. NOTE: check on Hasan in two weeks. Hasan does not deserve U.S. Execution by firing squad

This one is for killroy and his friends…

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 06:18 AM PST

By Barry Rubin

This story seems to blow the lid off the killings at Fort Hood. Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric who is a U.S. citizen now living in Yemen, says that the mass murdering major, Khalid Hasan, asked and was given by him a religious ruling authorizing him to shoot the soldiers. This would prove premeditation, a rational decision based on Islamic law, and the Jihadist motivation of the attack beyond any ability to conceal it.

Awlaki’s al-Jazira interview is translated by MEMRI which, it should be noted, does not at all sensationalize the story. While Awlaki could be talking big or “taking credit” for the terrorist operation, he was the imam at Hasan’s mosque in the Washington DC area for some time. His account is credible though it obviously should be investigated closely.

According to the interview, Hasan sent Awlaki an email on December 17, 2008, in which he asked, in Awlaki’s words whether “killing American soldiers and officers…is a religiously legitimate act or not.”

After an extensive correspondence, Awlaki complied, blessing the attack three days before it happened:

“Because Nidal’s target was a military target inside America, and there is no question about this. Then, also, those members of the military were not regular soldiers; rather they were prepared and preparing themselves to go to battle and to kill downtrodden Muslims and to commit crimes in Afghanistan….”

This information is of the greatest importance. Hasan went to his imam, asked to be assured that shooting his fellow soldiers was a recommended deed under Islamic law, and was told to go ahead. Incidentally, Awlaki has thus become an accessory to the crime and U.S. authorities should ask the Yemeni government to ensure he can be interviewed and extradited.

The ABC network’s coverage claims that it was not clear from the transcript whether Awlaki gave Hasan a green light to kill his fellow American soldiers. While Awlaki doesn’t say in so many words that he told him to go ahead, it is quite clear from the transcript that this is precisely what he did do.

Some reports of a Yemeni government air attack on an al-Qaida meeting claim that Awlaki was one of the targets.

Once again, MEMRI has done excellent work and you might consider making a donation to them. The full text of the interview can be obtained by writing memri@memri.org or jttmsubs@memri.org. with the words “Al-Awlaki Interview” in the subject line.

Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley), and The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan). To read and subscribe to MERIA, GLORIA articles, or to order books. To see or subscribe to his blog, Rubin Reports.