The U.S. State Department made a phone call to the family of Al Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan to offer the government's condolences on his death during a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, a department spokesman confirms.

State Department spokesman Harry Edwards confirmed to FoxNews.com that a "condolence call" was made to Khan's family in Charlotte, N.C., but declined to provide further details out of respect for the family.

The phone call, which was first reported by the Charlotte Observer, happened last Thursday, a Khan family spokesman told the newspaper.

Khan was killed along with cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, during a U.S. airstrike in Yemen Sept. 30.

The 25-year-old Khan first came under the attention of authorities between 2007 and 2009 when he was seen meeting with two terror suspects on New York's Long Island, according to U.S. Rep. Peter King.

Khan, a Saudi-born man of Pakistani heritage who was a U.S. citizen, lived on Long Island before moving to Charlotte, N.C., where he began writing a pro-Al Qaeda blog from his parents' home.

In 2009, he moved to Yemen to join the terror network in the Arabian Peninsula.

The Charlotte Observer reports that the government's call came a day after the family released a statement condemning what they described as Khan's unjust "assassination."

The statement, which was released through family spokesman Jibril Hough, said the family was "appalled by the indifference shown to us by our government."

"They were very apologetic (for not calling the family sooner) and offered condolences," Hough told the newspaper.

"It wasn't just `I'm sorry' and hang-up," he said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/11/us-state-department-made-condolence-call-to-family-samir-khan/#ixzz1aUOlZMTo

Are you insinuating that it is bad to offer condolences to the family of a victim of a US terror attack (who was never proven guilty of anything)? This is one of the few decent things the regime has done.

Yes I am. The guy was proven by several agencies world wide to be a major player in terrorism, but keep defending them.

Obamy needs to have his head examined,so does Hitlery!

I'll go along with the first half of your sentence Con... Hitlery?!!?

Kind of funny people still use the bin laden rhetoric after he has been taken down under OBAMAS WATCH,,,,but soemtimes things dont change,, and neither does rhetoric,,,

Hillary,aka Hitlery on the web!
Guess for her uncompromising Stance!

Good thing that GWB hadn't done most of the Footwork to enable BHO to take that Louse down!

point still stands,, I guess it kind of undercuts implications that either ONE has acquaintance or likeness to Osama , but the rhetoric still continues

Yup, President Bush did 99.9% of the work on that one.

Can't expect much more from lpdon. He hates Obama with a passion and will say anything possible to make him look bad, whether it's true or not.

so how much of the economy did he do the 'work' on?


as if I dont know the answer,,lol

We were talking about Bin Laden not the economy.

nope, the op was actually talking about the OBama admin apologizing for an americans death

that was what I was talking about,, in reference to the op


THEN, I commented on a photo fusing the image of bin laden and barack together as if they are two in the same because I thought it interesting such rhetoric still finds a place considering that UNDER obama , Bin laden was brought down but even that commendation couldnt be given because '99%' of the work was done under the last administration

so I posed a question to try to understand when we
1) give OBAMA full responsibility for what dea and fbi does(good and bad)

or when we

2) make sure to share that responsibility or even give the preponderance of it to the previous administration

,,,,just trying to understand how the blame or commend game works...

I'm not saying President Bush did everything right BUT he is a LOT better then what we have now.

It wouldnt matter if he did it all right or not. Im just trying to understand how much of what happens now is because of what he may have done right or wrong and how much of it should be considered 'OBamas fault'.????

What happens now depends on how much was done and accomplished during his administration.

Yep. I remember the speech she gave to a women's congregation in China a few years back and how she bashed China for their human rights offenses.
Now, she's on her knees suckin' up to the same ones she blasted.