My son, who preferred Obama over Romney had some pretty startling things to say............

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11. One of the terrorists targeted and taken out was actually an American...

who went somewhere and joined AQ and became a leader, did videos calling for the killing of Americans and such. He was popular and a leader because he could speak English well (of course), he was an American, and so was a good recruiter to the "cause." He was very dangerous. I don't recall if he was of arab descent, but he was darkish with beard and such, so fit in with AQ even if not arab.

There's no doubt about what he was or what he was doing. The videos were shown. Intel said he was a leader of some faction or something, and the videos seemed to bear that out.

My understanding is that he wasn't captured and tried here because he was in fact a member of AQ, a terrorist, had moved and was living in another country, and the country's policy about AQ and terrorism, and they couldn't capture him. One argument is that he in effect had renounced citizenship. Anwar Al-Aqar or whatever.

Here's an article that discusses both sides of it:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/11/obamas-killing-of-us-citizens/

Repubs tried to make a stink about this this past summer, but it didn't take hold. (Repubs, no less.) It's a sticky situation. You decide. As for me, I think it had to be done, in order to save lives, because he was high up and effective, apparently.