Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

US drone victim

Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi, Arabic: عبدالرحمن العولقي;

August 26, 1995 – October 14, 2011) was a 16-year-old United States citizen who was killed while eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant in Yemen by a drone airstrike ordered by U.S.

President Barack Obama on October 14, 2011.Abdulrahman al-Awlaki's father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was alleged to be an operational leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Anwar was killed by a CIA drone strike also ordered by Obama two weeks prior to the killing of his son.