I have spent the past year or more trying to get to the bottom of why this young man was killed. And all of this was being litigated anonymously, and then the family produced his birth certificate showing that he had just turned 16, that he was born in August of 1995 in Denver, Colorado. officials claim that he was a 21-year-old, that he was somehow with al-Qaeda figures or that he may have actually been a militant himself. So he’s waiting and staying with his relatives, and then he’s killed in this drone strike. His father gets killed, and Abdulrahman is stuck in this village, because at the time the Arab Spring uprisings were happening and there were protests against Ali Abdullah Saleh, the U.S.-backed dictator of Yemen, and he was unable to return to his home, where he was living with Nasser Awlaki and his wife Saleha, because there was fighting in the south of the country. He went-Abdulrahman went to the place in Shabwa where there had been repeated drone strikes aimed at killing his father. In fact, his father was killed nowhere near where he was. He had run away from home to try to find his father, and his father was killed before he could find him. He was killed two weeks later while sitting in an outdoor restaurant with his teenage cousins and other youth from their tribe. JEREMY SCAHILL: First of all, I just want to make clear here that Abdulrahman Awlaki, this 16-year-old who was killed in a drone strike, was not with his father at the time that he was killed. Jeremy, you’ve spent a good deal of time in Yemen with the al-Awlaki family investigating the various attacks. Jeremy Scahill is in the studio with us, the investigative reporter who has written the book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield and is the central figure in the film by the same name that’s being released today around the country, in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, and then beyond, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. Sheikh Saleh bin Fareed also joins us, a Yemeni tribal leader and uncle of Anwar al-Awlaki. government that they were responsible for their deaths. strikes over the last two years, now admitted, after something like 600 days, by the U.S. Both of these men, Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, were killed in U.S. AMY GOODMAN: In this Democracy Now! exclusive, we bring you Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of Anwar al-Awlaki, grandfather of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki.

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