Osama bin laden does not speak fluent english, but awlaki is american born of yemeni parents in las cruces, new mexico and is fluent in both english and arabic. The author of a dense book on the groups history and internal divisions in yemen, jemhi sat. Ubbay ibn kaab said, o amir ul muminin, have you walked on a field that had a lot of thorny plants. Terrorism scholar meleagrouhitchens debuts with a rigorous analysis of americanborn cleric anwar alawlakis influence on the global jihadist movement. Imam anwar al awlaki s most popular book is umar ibn al khattab.
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