Anwar al-Aulaqi, New Mexico-born and linked to al-Qaeda. The Obama administration is continuing a policy begun under the Bush administration, which authorizes the CIA and the American military to kill American citizens abroad if they are involved in terrorist actions against the U.S. 
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U.S. Army Capt. Cory Petro, left, waits for Afghan elders to arrive for a meeting near Combat Outpost Mizan in Mizan district, Zabul province, Afghanistan, Aug 19, 2010. Posted in World News Tags: Afghanistan War News, Air Force Photo, Al Jazeera, Army Capt, Army Vehicle, Bomb Attack, Bomb Attacks, Callon, Casualties In Afghanistan, Cnn, International Security Assistance, Mizan, Nathanael, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Roadside Bomb, Southern Afghanistan, Troops In Afghanistan, U S Air, U S Air Force, U S Army, Us Army Comments Off
At least 19 people including five civilians die as insurgents strike against pro-Moscow leader Ramzan Kadyrov
At least 19 people were killed today after Islamist rebels launched an audacious attack on the heavily defended residence of Chechnya’s pro-Kremlin president, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Chechen officials said that 12 insurgents and two guards were killed after the rebels slipped into Tsentoroi, Kadyrov’s home village, also known as Khosi-Yurt, in the early hours of this morning . Russian TV reported that five civilians had also been killed in fierce fighting.
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12 suspected rebels killed in Chechnya: president — AFP
Chechen militants killed 5 police in Kadyrov’s home village — RIA Novosti
Kadyrov’s native village attackers eliminated — RIA Novosti
Police defeat Caucasus Emirate assault on Chechen president’s hometown — Long War Journal
Rebels attack Chechen leader’s home — Al Jazeera
Chechen Leader’s Village Is Attacked — New York Times
19 dead in shootout in Russia’s Caucasus — AP
Chechen president fights militants in home village — CNN
Militants Strike Kadyrov’s Home Village — Moscow Times
In Chechnya, A Blood Feud Ends—and a Despot Digs In — Time Magazine
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Nineteen-month old Amina at Save the Children’s clinic for severely manlnourished children in Aguie, Niger, yesterday. Two of her siblings have already died within the past year.
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BAGHDAD — In one of the broadest assaults on Iraq’s security forces, insurgents unleashed a wave of roadside mines and a more than a dozen car bombs across Iraq on Wednesday, killing dozens, toppling a police station in the capital and sowing confusion among the soldiers and police who responded.
The withering two-hour assault in 12 towns and cities, from southernmost Basra to restive Mosul in the north, was as symbolic as it was deadly, coming a week before the United States declares the end of combat operations here.
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