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For those interested in more detail on Anwar Al-Aulaqi’s alleged operational role in terrorist plots, this piece from the Long War Journal back in March, written by Thomas Joscelyn, is well worth a read. It details Al Aulaqi’s email exchanges … Read more »

Professor Michael Lewis writes in with the following guest post:

Why IHL and not Self-Defense Should be Considered the Legal Basis for the Awlaki Operation

Anwar al-Awlaki is dead, apparently killed by a US drone strike in Yemen.  From the

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A senior administration lawyer involved in national security issues writes in with the following:

I read the commentary by He Who Must Not Be Named On This Blog on the killing of Aulaqi, and while I understand that you refuse

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A corollary to Bobby’s second point in this post is that it is not enough to say the words “due process” by way of denouncing the Al Aulaqi strike, as though those words represent a discussion-ending argument. One has to … Read more »

In the flurry of al-Awlaki coverage today, there are two points that I think are particularly worthy of attention.

First, does this show that the U.S. government asserts authority to target based on speech alone?  One might get that impression … Read more »

Over at Salon.com, He Who Must Not Be Named on This Blog is upset by the fact that what he terms the “the due process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality.”

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Anwar al-Awlaki, an influential member of al Qaeda who was one of the most wanted members of any terrorist organization, has been killed in an airstrike in northern Yemen, as Sudarsan Raghavan at the Washington Post reports, as does … Read more »

From the President of GWU Law’s National Security Law Association:

The ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security and GW Law School’s National Security Law Association are organizing a National Security Law Career Fair for all DC-area law schools,

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Here’s the New York Times coverage, the Washington Post story, and the coverage on CBS News. Al Aulaqi appears to have been killed with a drone.

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On Tuesday, lawyers for Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Alghaith Suleiman filed this letter with the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  The letter replies to an earlier letter, which was filed by … Read more »

The case is United States v. Ferdaus, and the complaint and underlying affidavit for the arrest are attached here and here.  In brief, the case involves a US citizen who thought he was working with members of al … Read more »

The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee released  this lengthy study today of oversight of national security and intelligence agencies by member states. Entitled “Parliamentary Oversight of Security and Intelligence Agencies in the European Union,” it includes attachments … Read more »

Charges have just been referred in the al-Nashiri case.  Next step: arraignment.  Thanks to the very-slick new commissions website (www.mc.mil), the charges are available here.  They include some but not all the charges originally specified by prosecutors.   … Read more »

United States v. Alwan is the case in the Western District of Kentucky involving individuals accused of having been insurgents in Iraq who attacked American troops.  There have been some calls for shifting the case into the military commission system, but … Read more »