White House press secretary Jay Carney refuses to answer questions about al-Awlaki killing;
Unlike the press briefings that followed the killing of Osama bin Laden, White House press secretary Jay Carney largely refused to answer questions about the U.S.-led drone attack that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Islamic preacher turned propaganda chief for al-Qaida, in Yemen on Friday.
"This is a significant fact, that al-Awlaki is dead," Carney told reporters. "Questions about the circumstances about his death . . . I'm not going to get into."
Samir Khan, the Saudi-born American publisher of an al-Qaida propaganda magazine called Inspire, was also killed in the operation.
Carney declined to engage reporters who wanted the White House to offer evidence of al-Awlaki's role in global terrorism, or why al-Awlaki--an American citizen--wasn't given due process.
"What do you think constitutional law professor Barack Obama would make of all this?" one reporter asked.
"I think he spoke about it today," a smirking Carney replied.
Perhaps the White House learned its lesson after the killing of bin Laden, whom officials first said was armed and had used his wife as a human shield. Two days later, Carney was forced revise the initial account in a press briefing with reporters.
"In the room with bin Laden, a woman--bin Laden's--a woman, rather, bin Laden's wife, rushed the U.S. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed," Carney said. "Bin Laden was then shot and killed. He was not armed."
Unlike the press briefings that followed the killing of Osama bin Laden, White House press secretary Jay Carney largely refused to answer questions about the U.S.-led drone attack that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Islamic preacher turned propaganda chief for al-Qaida, in Yemen on Friday.
"This is a significant fact, that al-Awlaki is dead," Carney told reporters. "Questions about the circumstances about his death . . . I'm not going to get into."
Samir Khan, the Saudi-born American publisher of an al-Qaida propaganda magazine called Inspire, was also killed in the operation.
Carney declined to engage reporters who wanted the White House to offer evidence of al-Awlaki's role in global terrorism, or why al-Awlaki--an American citizen--wasn't given due process.
"What do you think constitutional law professor Barack Obama would make of all this?" one reporter asked.
"I think he spoke about it today," a smirking Carney replied.
Perhaps the White House learned its lesson after the killing of bin Laden, whom officials first said was armed and had used his wife as a human shield. Two days later, Carney was forced revise the initial account in a press briefing with reporters.
"In the room with bin Laden, a woman--bin Laden's--a woman, rather, bin Laden's wife, rushed the U.S. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed," Carney said. "Bin Laden was then shot and killed. He was not armed."
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