The citizen was name Anwar-al-Aulqui. (Had to look this up!!!) He has lots of allegations against him as being an Al Quaeda leader; however, he also did talks at the Pentagon on various subjects for our military, so there could be a lot more to that story. He and his 16 year old son (also an American citizen) were killed in Yemen (The U.S. violated Yemen's air space to do this.) by drones.
Anyway, here is an article by Pat Buchanan. I'm finding I agree with him more than I once did. I'm not sure if he moved, I moved, or both of us did. :0) He says much more eloquently most of what I was trying to say:
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan265.html