The Left doesn’t hide their disdain for America. But funding her enemies is a step too far.
Now a top Democrat was caught bankrolling a major terrorist with taxpayer dollars.
A U.S. agency currently under fire from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk—while being fiercely defended by Democrats—has been exposed for funding the college tuition of an American-born jihadist once described by U.S. officials as “a key leader of Al-Qaeda.”
According to Fox News, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided “full funding” for Anwar al-Awlaki to attend Colorado State University in 1990.
Al-Awlaki, an American-born terrorist with direct ties to the 9/11 hijackers, was ultimately killed in a drone strike under the Obama administration.
Al-Awlaki played a pivotal role in Al-Qaeda’s war against America and was in contact with Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan before Hasan carried out the deadly 2009 attack at what was then known as Fort Hood, killing 13 people.
Over the weekend, investigative reporters unearthed documents revealing that USAID not only paid for Al-Awlaki’s college education but that he fraudulently claimed to be a Yemeni national to qualify for an exchange visa.
Journalists Pamela Browne and Catherine Herridge shared the bombshell findings on X, exposing how Al-Awlaki misrepresented his citizenship to receive taxpayer-funded tuition.
“Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ’s Yemen affiliate,” Herridge wrote.
“Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ’s cause. Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.”
Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 to Yemeni parents, Al-Awlaki spent his childhood traveling between the U.S. and Yemen.
The document proving USAID’s involvement was initially discovered by George Washington University’s National Security Archive in 2015, but its resurfacing comes at a particularly inconvenient time for USAID as it faces scrutiny.
“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 reported at the time.
“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.”
After finishing his education, Al-Awlaki worked as a Muslim cleric across the U.S., including at a San Diego mosque where he met two 9/11 hijackers in 2000.
By 2004, he had relocated to Yemen, where he was arrested in 2006 on suspicion of terrorist ties.
His radical influence extended beyond 9/11. He was also linked to the 2009 Fort Hood shooting and the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day of that same year.
While Democrats rush to shield USAID from accountability, this revelation raises serious questions about how taxpayer dollars have been funneled into the wrong hands—and whether this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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