Nawar "Nora" al-Awlaki ( ar, نوار العولقي; 2008/2009 – January 29, 2017) was an eight-year-old American citizen who was killed on January 29, 2017, during the

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, a commando attack ordered by U.S. President

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.Ghobari, Mohammed and Phil Stewart
"Commando dies in U.S. raid in Yemen, first military op OK'd by Trump"

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'', January 29, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2017. Conducted in southern Yemen, the raid was an attack on a branch of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Nawar al-Awlaki's death gained national coverage and attention in both mainstream and online media sources. Nawar's grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki, said of her killing, “She was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours. Why kill children? This is the new U.S. administration – it's very sad, a big crime.” Nawar died with her mother and uncle by her side. Her alleged last words were, "Don't cry, mama. I'm fine." Nawar was the third member of her immediate family killed during military orders issued with

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. Her father,

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, was the first to be killed by the executive branch when on September 30, 2011, CIA orders calling for a precision drone strike targeting him was given presidential approval by then

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. Anwar al-Awlaki was alleged by the U.S. government to be a leader of

al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( ar-at, تنظيم القاعدة في جزيرة العرب, Tanẓīm al-Qā‘idah fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab, lit=Organization of the Base in the Arabian Peninsula or , ''Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jaz� ...

that had gone "operational," although the US government has refused to declassify much of the evidence that led them to this conclusion. Two weeks after the death of her father, Nawar's sixteen-year-old half-brother, Abdulrahman, was also killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike. When reporter Sierra Adamson asked former White House Press Secretary

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about Abdulrahman's killing, considering he was an American citizen and still a minor, but killed without due process, Adamson was left with the following response:

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