9/11, Anwar al-Awlaki and our unanswered questions

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 by Patrick Pillow | Sep 9, 2026 Photo Credit: Magharebia, Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/magharebia/6207480637 In 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided “full funding” for one Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki for studies in civil engineering at Colorado State University.There was only one problem: the USAID document listed his birthplace as Sana’a, Yemen. Awlaki was actually born in Las Cruces, New Mexico...