It’s hard to believe, but the story surrounding the Paris satirical magazine attack has gotten even more convoluted, with reports that one of the gunmen involved with the attack met with US cleric Anwar Awlaki in Yemen.
Awlaki was the first US citizen assassinated back in 2011 by the Obama Administration under its “kill list,” and his son was also assassinated shortly thereafter. An influential cleric on the Internet, officials blamed him for the rise of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on the grounds that his rhetoric was being used as a recruitment tool.
Now the speculation is that Awlaki may have “inspired” the attack, or potentially even “ordered” the attacks before he died, almost four years ago.
There’s nothing really grounding this speculation in reality, and it seems to rest on the fact that intelligence officials can’t place the gunman with any actual AQAP people, but do believe he met Awlaki.
Yet as a hugely influential cleric from the West, it’s unsurprising that a Westerner traveling to Yemen for religious studies would have an opportunity to meet him while there, and well short of evidence of an attack on a French magazine being four years in the making, and planned essentially from beyond the grave.
Blowback terrorism — And the French know it not?
Since the beginning of civilization, Western Europe has always been ruled by the high achiever upper half of society. As evidenced by the lower half owning none of the wealth or political power. For the glory of Western Europe comes from the reality that they have always been the highest achievers on earth, as evidenced by their deadly superiority having won every war they have provoked, wars of aggression being each and everyone of them.
So, the war-hawk upper half of France knows full well that their French Foreign Legion is the root cause of all the blowback terrorism they suffer, it being piddle little punishment considering the trillions that they have plundered from the Middle-East and Africa.
So the Us killed Anwar Awlaki because of his rhetoric ?
Rhetoric defention from http://www.merriam-webster.com/
rhet·o·ric
noun ˈre-tə-rik
: language that is intended to influence people and that may not be honest or reasonable
: the art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people
Isn't thatv form of speech or expression that charlie hebdo engaged in??
Then they killed his son simply because he was son nothing more.
And how convenient as well- with both of the men dead, there's no possibility of them speaking for themselves. Perhaps the Paris gunmen were really killed to prevent their having their day in court and having the opportunity to list their reasons for the attack.
While I don't in any way condone terrorism, it's very interesting that those who might have the most revealing testimony are the ones who end up dead before they can speak to the public.
That's they killed Usama Ben Laden execution style.
Is this an attempt to justify his killing after the fact so it becomes legal and to legitimize preemptive killings so most Americans accept that?
So they want to set the stage to reopen discussion of the fate of 16-year-old Abdelrahman Awlaki? Let's have that conversation, it's overdue.
Sounds more like a false flag job to me. I think the western war oligarchs are trying to insite war in Europe! An Arab buddy of mine told me few Arabs in the Middle-East ever heard of ISIS , ISIL, IS, or anything about an "Islamic" group. They only know that group fighting in the Mid'-East as Daesh which means "cutting through" which has little to do with Islam. Basically, what my buddy is saying is that these concepts of an Islamic State, an Islamic movement, a "clash between civilizationtions", is a fabrication by the Western Powers (U.S.A. et. al.) So, it goes to say whenever one hears someting about some "Islamic" terrorist threat, one can be rest assured that if it is not something created by the West, the spin sure is.