https://www.aclu.org/national-security/al-aulaqi-v-panetta
https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/anwar-al-awlaki
http://ccrjustice.org/targetedkillings
Description
In 2010, after reports that Anwar Al-Aulaqi had been placed on executive “kill lists,” CCR and the ACLU filed suit on behalf of his father, Nasser, challenging the government’s authorization for his son’s killing.
On September 30, 2011, U.S. strikes killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, along with Samir Khan and three others. Two weeks later, the U.S. launched another drone strike at an open-air restaurant in Yemen, killing Anwar Al-Aulaqi’s son, Abdulrahman, and six other civilian bystanders, including another teenager. These killings, undertaken without due process, in circumstances where lethal force was not a last resort to address a specific, concrete and imminent threat, and where the government failed to take required measures to protect bystanders, rises to a violation of the most elementary constitutional right afforded to all U.S. citizens – deprivation of life without due process of law.
Status
On April 4, 2014, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss the case.