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Jeremy Scahill on Hollywood-Style, Botched Attempts by U.S. to Kill American in Yemen

1,859 views · Published 23 April 2013 · 2:35 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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Watch the full 50-minute interview with Jeremy Scahill at http://owl.li/klnWN. The United States attempted to assassinate U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki more than a dozen times before finally hitting him with a fatal drone strike in September 2011, according to investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. Scahill details these attempts in his new book, "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield." In one chaotic scene, after U.S. missiles had missed him, Anwar al-Awlaki switched vehicles with two other people. "It's something like out of some Hollywood movie, they drive in opposite directions away from the smoke," Scahill says. "Al-Awlaki watched his car, with the two brothers in it, blow up, while he was on a sort of cliff in the mountains."

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