Source: CounterPunch
by Charles Pierson
“Nawar al-Awlaki would have been 16 this year. She was dead long before that. Nawar was just 8 years old when on January 29, 2017 she was killed during a pre-dawn raid on the Yemeni village of al-Ghayil. The raid was carried out by the US Navy’s SEAL Team 6 and commandos from the United Arab Emirates. Donald Trump personally ordered the raid, just nine days into his first term as president, although planning had begun under the Obama Administration. … Nawar might have been just one more nameless casualty of US wars, if not for two facts. Nawar was an American citizen and she was the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric killed in Yemen by a Hellfire missile fired from a US drone on September 30, 2011.” (01/29/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/29/in-memory-of-nawar-al-awlaki-age-8/