And two recent media reports have quoted al-Awlaki as admitting he met with AbdulMutallab.
The al-Awlaki family comes from the large and powerful Awalek tribe of southern Yemen.
On Wednesday, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said the attack that killed al-Awlaki was justified.
The al-Awlaki family comes from a large and powerful tribe in southern Yemen called the al-Awalek tribe.
The death of al-Awlaki marks another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates.
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Nidal Hasan of the U.S. Army, who had once attended al-Awlaki's sermons at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia.
When asked why his son would praise Hasan, Nasser al-Awlaki said he did not agree with his son's views.
The U.S. government has refused to confirm reports that its intelligence agencies monitored Hasan's alleged e-mail contacts with al-Awlaki.
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The Obama Administration has never made clear why it thought that capturing Awlaki and bringing him to trial was infeasible.
You said that the U.S. decision on Saleh and the disposition of Saleh is not related to the Awlaki operation.
U.S. authorities killed al-Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
Notably, al-Awlaki gets these special protections because he is a U.S. citizen.
His father, the elder al-Awlaki, is an accomplished academic and had held several positions within the Yemeni government, including minister of agriculture.
Al-Awlaki was killed September 30, 2011, by a drone strike in Yemen.
Al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen last year by a U.S. drone strike.
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Senators are expected to ask Mr Brennan about drone strikes, the memo and the killing of Awlaki when he faces his confirmation hearing.
It has many connections to the government of Yemen, including the country's prime minister, who is a relative of the al-Awlaki family.
U.S. officials believe al-Awlaki played an important role in the failed December 2009 underwear bomb plot and also the thwarted October 2010 cargo bomb plot.
The hypothetical posed by the journalist assumed al-Awlaki was located abroad.
Hasan attended a mosque in Northern Virginia where Awlaki once served.
Al-Awlaki has since been killed in a U.S. drone attack in Yemen, in what was termed a major victory in the U.S. efforts against al Qaeda.
As recently as Sunday, Yemeni officials including provincial governor Al Hasan al-Ahmadi claimed that al-Awlaki was hiding out in the southern mountains of Yemen with al Qaeda.
When asked if his son met with the man charged with trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas day, al-Awlaki's father said it's not likely.
Al-Awlaki acknowledged his son has espoused some controversial views but all of them, he said, would be protected by freedom of speech provisions in the American Constitution.
But the United States has independent intelligence verifying that AbdulMutallab met with al-Awlaki somewhere in southern Yemen before the Christmas Day bombing attempt, according to a U.S. security official with knowledge of the intelligence.
Unlike Mr. Abdulmutallab, who traveled to Yemen for instruction from Mr. Awlaki, investigators haven't found evidence of direct contact between the Tsarnaevs and the radical cleric, the U.S. official familiar with the suspect's statements said.
Had there not been this breakdown in communication, the FBI agent in Washington might have been able to review a broader array of information, including the 16 more recent e-mails Hasan had written to Awlaki, to make his assessment on whether the major was dangerous or not.
Thus, taking these statements together, it seems that Nuland could have comfortably answered that the U.S. would not consider it lawful to kill al-Awlaki while he was on embassy grounds, and would also not consider it lawful to kill him while he was en route to the embassy (unless capture were somehow not feasible).
Earlier last week, Attorney General Eric Holder, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, actually for the first time acknowledged that the United States has actually killed four American citizens, including Ayman al-Aliki, who was the purported head of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, Jude Mohammed and Samir Khan, who were also American citizens.
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