Reply #35: I am speaking about this man:

[sabrina 1]

Anwar al-Awlaki

Anwar al-Awlaki is an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool for extremist indoctrination. Mr. Awlaki is perhaps the most prominent English-speaking advocate of violent jihad against the United States. The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of Mr. Awlaki, who is in hiding in Yemen.

Mr. Awlaki, born in New Mexico in 1971, served as an imam in California and Virginia. He has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was linked through e-mails with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in November 2009 and then to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25. He also had ties to two of the 9/11 hijackers although the nature of association remains unclear.

And according to the article, he has done nothing more than preach:

Mr. Awlaki has never been accused of planting explosives himself, but terrorism experts believe his persuasive endorsement of violence as a religious duty, in colloquial, American-accented English, has helped push a series of Western Muslims into terrorism.

So, why is he not protected by the 1st Amendment? Provocative speech is really all he is accused of?