© EPAAn undated handout photograph provided by the Site Intelligence Group on 30 September 2011 shows Anwar al-Awlaki speaking in a televised interview in an unknown location.
President Trump ordered USAID to be dismantled after finding it wasted billions on lefty schemes in recent years — from drag shows in Ecuador to an Iraqi version of "Sesame Street" and aid to the Middle East that made their way into the hands of Hamas and Hezbollah.
But the recently resurfaced terrorist full-ride suggests to critics that the rot has been there for years.
American-born jihadist Anwar al-Awlaki received "full funding" to attend Colorado State University in 1990, USAID documents obtained by Fox News show.
President Barack Obama ordered him killed in a US airstrike in Yemen 20 years later.
And the documents revealed that al-Awlaki - who was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico - lied on his application and claimed that he was born in Yemen, apparently so he would be eligible for the federal tuition funding worth more than $27,000 at the time. (Tuition and fees for an international student at the Fort Collins-based public university would be nearly 10 times that today.)
Using the education USAID provided him - he earned a bachelor's in civil engineering in 1994 — al-Awlaki would go on to teach Islam at mosques across the country from Denver to San Diego and Virginia, where US officials believe he used his platform to radicalize and recruit terrorists.
It was at a San Diego Mosque where he met 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar - two of the men who flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon that morning in 2001, killing 190 people - and by 2006 he was arrested in Yemen on suspicion of terrorist ties.
Three years later he was communicating with the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan — who gunned down 13 people at the Texas Army base — and was also tied to "Underwear Bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas day 2009 with bombs hidden in his shorts.
Al-Awlaki was killed in a US airstrike ordered by Obama in 2011 in Yemen, months after he was declared a "specially designated global terrorist." The hit was controversial with civil rights groups at the time, since it was the first killing of an American in a targeted strike.
It has long been known al-Awlaki was educated in the US, but the recent scrutiny of USAID's far-reaching and often frivolous spending by the Trump administration has thrown a new light on its part in educating a terrorist.
© browne_pamela/X/IntelwireUSAID reportedly bankrolled al Qaeda terrorist’s college tuition, unearthed records show Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike during the Obama administration.
"This form, dated 1990, confirms that Anwar al-Awlaki was qualified for an exchange visa and that USAID was providing 'full funding' for his studies at Colorado State University," the National Security Archive said at the time.
© EPAAl-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 to parents from Yemen.
"The document lists Anwar's birthplace incorrectly as Sanaa, Yemen's capital, which he later said was a deliberate falsehood offered at the urging of American officials who knew his father so that he could qualify for a scholarship reserved for foreign citizens," according to the archive.And al-Awlaki's cushy tuition ride is just the latest incident of USAID funds paying for America's terrorist enemies that's turned up since the Trump administration started cracking down on state spending.
Upwards of $100 million in grants from USAID and the state department have been given to terror-aligned organizations, according to a recent study from the Middle East Forum think tank - including "millions" that have been funneled directly into Hamas-controlled organizations in Gaza.
"USAID beneficiaries have called for their lands to be 'cleansed' from the 'impurity of the Jews,' among dozens of other chilling examples," the report found, citing groups like the "Gaza-based terror charity" Bayader Association for Environment and Development which received funding from 2016 through the days before the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Fox News reported.
© APHe was raised both in the US and Yemen, US media reported in 2011 following his death.
USAID spending continued in Gaza and the West Bank under the Biden Administration, even as the government deemed it "high risk" that it would fall into terrorist hands.
Humanitarian aid packages provided by USAID have also been found among caches of weapons being used in the conflict, including in a store of Hezbollah machine guns and weaponry that Israel Defense Force soldiers found and photographed in Lebanon.
Comment: Not just Hamas and Hezbollah receive US taxpayer's money. Israel is regularly receiving US taxpayer's money and nobody has anything against that.
In the most recent fiscal budget, the U.S. Congress approved $705.8m for Israel's missile defense program, a boost from the $600m allocated last year. This aid is on top of $3.1b in annual military aid to Israel through a ten-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which will increase to $38b during the 2019-2028 period.So, the bottom line is that PTB is financing both sides in the Middle East not because they like one side and don't like the other, but because war creates profit for them and opens a huge window of opportunity for their sick minds.
On the other side, while the US taxpayer money is spent on financing terrorists and wars, the US infrastructure is falling apart.
Airports in the U.S. need $42b to modernize. The water crisis in Flint, MI was caused by systematic underinvestment in maintaining the water infrastructure. The National Park Service has proposed increasing entrance and lodging fees to make up nearly $12b in deferred maintenance costs. Meanwhile, U.S. ports need $15b in investments, while repairing existing highways requires another $420b, all of this on top of $123b to maintain deteriorating bridges.
USAID's oftentimes strange and far-reaching spending - and the eye watering sums of taxpayer dollars thrown about the world - have made it an easy target for Trump's cost-cutting plans via his Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
"USAID is driving the radical left crazy, and there is nothing they can do about it because the way in which the money has been spent, so much of it fraudulently, is totally unexplainable," President Trump wrote on TruthSocial over the weekend as his crackdown on government spending escalated with the closure of the USAID office.At least $68 billion was spent by USAID in 2023 alone.
Trump has almost completely halted the agency's operations, leaving only some low-level operations still running.
Its staff of 10,000 people employed internationally is expected to be slashed to just around 300.
IDK who really controls who. People like to make large of Jewish conspiracies controlling important institutions at home and abroad, but I think the reality of it is that they are a monkey on Caesars back whose neck he could break given the slightest inclination. It would hardly be the first time.
I am not for that, but I think we could manage our relationship with a lot more dignity and self control. I think they need to stay in their lane, offer good council, be entertaining, and balance the books...but yeah, fucking Judas.
The master should not allow the servants to run the household. I don't believe it is due to some mystic cunning that the Jewish lobby is allowed to undermine and destroy our institutions. It's due to the lazy, selfish, and gluttonous habits of our own people.
We allow it for our own reasons, but I think we can improve ourselves, and I sure see a lot of room for that. IMO, it is a sign of weakness to be so confounded by the wily guile of insidious Jews. Is sodomy really that hard to resist?