Objective Troy A Terrorist a President, and the Rise of the Drone
By scott shane

Objective Troy tells the gripping and unsettling story of Anwar
al-Awlaki, the once-celebrated American imam who called for moderation
after 9/11, a man who ultimately directed his outsized talents to the
mass murder of his fellow citizens. It follows Barack Obama's campaign
against the excesses of the Bush counterterrorism programs and his
eventual embrace of the targeted killing of suspected militants. And it
recounts how the president directed the mammoth machinery of spy
agencies to hunt Awlaki down in a frantic, multi-million-dollar pursuit
that would end with the death of Awlaki by a bizarre, robotic technology
that is changing warfare-the drone. and and and and and Scott Shane, who has covered terrorism for The New York Times
over the last decade, weaves the clash between president and terrorist
into both a riveting narrative and a deeply human account of the
defining conflict of our era. Awlaki, who directed a plot that almost
derailed Obama's presidency, and then taunted him from his desert
hideouts, will go down in history as the first United States citizen
deliberately hunted and assassinated by his own government without
trial. But his eloquent calls to jihad, amplified by YouTube, continue
to lure young Westerners into terrorism-resulting in tragedies from the
Boston marathon bombing to the murder of cartoonists at a Paris weekly.
Awlaki's life and death show how profoundly America has been changed by
the threat of terrorism and by our own fears. and and and and and Illuminating and provocative, and based on years of in depth reporting, Objective Troy is a brilliant reckoning with the moral challenge of ter