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State Department Apologizes to Family of Slain American al-Qaeda Member Samir Khan
The family of Samir Khan, the North Carolina-born al-Qaeda operative who was killed in Yemen along with Anwar al-Awlaki, released a statement last week against his assassination, noting they were "appalled" that the State Department had not reached out to them. This week, the State Department finally stepped up:
An official from the U.S. State Department has called the Charlotte family of al-Qaida propagandist Samir Khan to offer the government's condolences on his death in a U.S. drone attack last week in Yemen, according to a family spokesman.
"They were very apologetic (for not calling the family sooner) and offered condolences," Jibril Hough said about the Thursday call from the State Department to Khan's father, Zafar. [...]
"The (family) statement appears to have gotten their attention."
But, Hough added, the family would still like answers to the civil liberties-related questions.
"The discussion doesn't stop with a phone call, though the contact was a step in the right direction," he said.
Khan published a pro-jihadi website from Charlotte, to the chagrin of his family. In 2009, he left the states to live in Yemen and head up "Inspire," an English language al-Qaeda publication. "In one early edition," reports the Charlotte Observer, "Khan said he was 'proud to be a traitor to America.'"
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