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Scott Shane
The US has argued that Anwar al-Awlaki had joined the enemy.
THE killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen hit by a missile fired from a drone operated by his own government, has reignited a difficult debate over terrorism, civil liberties and the law.
The Obama administration had long argued that al-Awlaki, 40, had joined the enemy in wartime, shifting from propaganda to an operational role in plots against the US, and last year it decided that he could be targeted for capture or death like any other al-Qaeda leader.
It was unclear whether the same formal determination had been made about another radicalised American killed in the same strike, Samir Khan.
Some civil libertarians questioned how the [...]
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