ACLU sues Obama administration over treatment of terrorist
Albuquerque Express Wednesday 4th August, 2010
The US government is being sued by civil rights groups seeking a legal change to the Obama administration's treatment of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is a US citizen who lives in Yemen.
Al-Awlaki who is on America's most wanted terrorist list will be defended by ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights, who say the government has improperly "asserted authority to use lethal force against US citizens located far from any battlefield without charge, trial, or judicial process of any kind."
The civil rights groups were approached by al-Awlaki's father, who has requested the groups challenge the most-wanted determination against his son.
The government has accused al-Awlaki of being recruiting Americans to perpetrate violent attacks in the US.
It has been reported he communicated with Major Nidal Hasan before last year's shootings at Fort Hood, with Faisal Shahzad, who planted the car bomb in Times Square earlier this year and also played a role in the Christmas Day airline bomb plot.
Al-Awlaki was formally placed on the global terrorist list in July.
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