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|occupation = |publication = al-Qaeda magazine ''Inspire'' |known_for = |religion = Islam |children = 5 |parents = Nasser al-Awlaki (father) |website = |footnotes = }} Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi, al-Awlaqi; (アラビア語:أنور العولقي) ''Anwar al-‘Awlaqī''; April 21, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American and Yemeni imam and Islamic lecturer. U.S. government officials allege that he was a senior recruiter and motivator who was involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blog.adl.org/extremism/boston-marathon-bombers-inspired-by-anwar-al-awlaki )〕〔〔(How Anwar Al-Awlaki Inspired Terror From Across the Globe ) retrieved 4 February 2012l〕 and he became the first United States citizen to be targeted and killed in a United States drone strike.〔 His son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, was killed by a U.S. drone strike two weeks later.〔 With a blog, a Facebook page, the al-Qaeda magazine ''Inspire'', and many YouTube videos, al-Awlaki was described by Saudi news station Al Arabiya as the "bin Laden of the Internet." After a request from the US Congress, in November 2010 Google removed many of al-Awlaki's videos from its websites. Al-Awlaki's teachings are still influencing Islamists in the West and internationally, with his statements, articles, and lectures being cited and used as inspiration by Islamic extremists. He led something of a double life in the United States. Outwardly a conservative religious man, he also frequented prostitutes, and his numerous encounters were followed by the F.B.I.〔("The Lessons of Anwar al-Awlaki" ) feature story by Scott Shane in ''The New York Times Magazine'', 27 August 2015, accessed August 30, 2015〕 As imam at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia (2001–02), al-Awlaki spoke with and preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers, who were al-Qaeda members.〔 In 2001, he presided at the funeral of the mother of Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who later e-mailed him extensively in 2008–09 before the Fort Hood shootings. During al-Awlaki's later radical period after 2006–07, when he went into hiding, he was associated with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted the 2009 Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner. Al-Awlaki was allegedly involved in planning Abdulmutallab's attack. The Yemeni government tried him ''in absentia'' in November 2010, for plotting to kill foreigners and being a member of al-Qaeda. A Yemeni judge ordered that he be captured "dead or alive."〔 Some US officials said that in 2009, al-Awlaki was promoted to the rank of "regional commander" within al-Qaeda. Others felt that Nasir al-Wuhayshi still held this rank and that al-Awlaki was an influential member in the group.〔 He repeatedly called for ''jihad'' against the United States.〔(Scott Shane and Robert Worth, "Challenge Heard on Move to Kill Qaeda-Linked Cleric" ), ''The New York Times'', November 8, 2010. Retrieved November 11, 2010.〕 In April 2010, US President Barack Obama placed al-Awlaki on a list of people whom the US Central Intelligence Agency were authorized to kill because of terrorist activities.〔〔〔 Al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups challenged the order in court. Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in Southeast Yemen in the last years of his life.〔("Yemen charges U.S.-born cleric with plot to kill foreigners" ), Associated Press. November 2, 2010; retrieved November 2, 2010.〕 The US deployed unmanned aircraft (drones) in Yemen to search for and kill him, firing at and failing to kill him at least once, before succeeding on September 30, 2011. Two weeks later, al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a US citizen who was born in Denver, was killed by a CIA-led drone strike in Yemen.〔(Kasinov, Laura, "Fatal Strikes Hit Yemen as Violence Escalates", ''The New York Times'', 15 October 2011 )〕〔Herridge, Catherine, "Obama Administration Pressed for Accountability After Americans Killed in Anti-Terror Airstrikes", Fox News, October 25, 2011 ()〕 Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar's father, released an audio recording condemning the killings of his son and grandson as senseless murders. In June 2014, a previously classified memorandum issued by the United States Department of Justice was released, justifying al-Awlaki's death as a lawful act of war. ==Early life== Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico in 1971 to parents from Yemen, while his father, Nasser al-Awlaki, was doing graduate work at US universities. His father was a Fulbright Scholar who earned a master's degree in agricultural economics at New Mexico State University in 1971, received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska, and worked at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1977.〔〔 Nasser al-Awlaki served as Agriculture Minister in Ali Abdullah Saleh's government. He was also President of Sana'a University.〔 Yemen's Prime Minister from 2007 to 2011, Ali Mohammed Mujur, was a relative. The family returned to Yemen in 1978, when al-Awlaki was seven years old.〔 He lived there for 11 years, and studied at Azal Modern School. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anwar al-Awlaki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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