Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Real-Life Villains
Disclaimers
Real-Life Villains
Search
User menu
Talk
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Anwar al-Awlaki
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
{{Villain_Infobox |Image = Anwar al-Awlaki sitting on couch, lightened.jpg |fullname = Anwar bin Nasser bin Abdulla al-Aulaqi |alias = "The bin Laden of the Internet." |origin = Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S. |occupation = Imam at Falls Church Mosque<br>Recruiter for [[Al-Qaeda]] |type of villain = Dark Priest |goals = Continue jihad against America (failed)<br>Convince people to convert to Islam and join Al-Qaeda (particularly successful) |crimes = Islam extremism<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>[[Hate crime]]s |hobby = Using social media<br>Making YouTube videos}}{{Quote|Fighting the devil doesn't require consultation or prayers seeking divine guidance. They are the party of the devils. Fighting them is what is called for at this time. We have reached a point where it is either us or them. We are two opposites that will never come together. What they want can only be accomplished by our elimination. Therefore this is a defining battle.|al-Awlaki's opinion of the Middle East's conflict with America.}}'''Anwar al-Awlaki''' (also spelled al-Aulaqi, al-Awlaqi; Arabic: ุฃููุฑ ุงูุนููููโ Anwar al-โAwlaqฤซ; April 21/22, 1971 โ September 30, 2011) was a Yemeni-American preacher and imam, He was also secretly a senior recruiter for [[Al-Qaeda]] and allegedly had a role in planning the [[September 11 attacks]] on the World Trade Center, but this has never been definitively proven. though it is known that three of the 9/11 hijackers were regular attendees at his mosque. He is also a major factor in causing the 2009 Fort Hood [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]], which was carried out by [[Nidal Malik Hassan]]. Hassan, a Muslim who had developed a hatred for America, communicated with al-Awlaki via email several times in the weeks before he committed the shooting, most importantly learning the concept of jihad from him. al-Awlaki was known for his heavy presence on the internet, particularly social media forums like Facebook and YouTube, which he would use as platforms for Al-Qaeda propaganda and as a means of recruiting others into the organization. al-Awlaki also had contacted [[Faisal Shahzad]] and is believed to have influenced him into committing the car bombing attempt in Times Square on May 1, 2010, and possibly was involved in the planning [[Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab]]'s plane bombing attempt on Christmas Day 2009. Shortly after these incidents, he went into hiding, allegedly into southeast Yemen. He was killed in a U.S. drone strike on September 30, 2011.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Real-Life Villains may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Real-Life Villains:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)