American citizenship offers no protection from targeted drone assassination

Evidence

As we well know by now, the possession of American nationality is no protection against targeted assassination. But the American citizen killed in Yemen by a drone strike in September 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki, was perhaps, in the eyes of those who decided on his death, not or no longer either a full citizen or really American. Nor, apparently, was his sixteen-year-old son, born in Denver, and killed one week later by a strike designed to complete the job. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 848

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that the son’s strike was ‘designed to complete the job’ deserves scrutiny against the official account.
• SEED: Potential angle: how the state strips citizenship discursively to make assassination of citizens permissible.
• XREF: connects to: Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians; Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412; The US deliberately maintains legal ambiguity about drone strikes even in court — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 536 (+4 more)

Related

• US drone strikes executed a US citizen and his sixteen-year-old son without trial (similarity 0.83)
• The United States killed an American citizen and his son by drone in Yemen (similarity 0.82)
• Barack Obama authorized killing US citizens abroad via drone without trial (similarity 0.81)
• Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing (similarity 0.79)
• Surveilled Muslim citizens feel citizenship offers no protection from detention (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Surveilled Muslim citizens feel citizenship offers no protection from detention #exemplifies (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 571
• Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing #exemplifies (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412
• The US deliberately maintains legal ambiguity about drone strikes even in court #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 536
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 546
• Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians #expands (0.50)