According to the al-Awlaki family back in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, Abdul rahman al-Awlaki, the cleric's son would have run away from home after news of his father's death in a desperate bid to find him.
The 17 year-old was killed subsequently in an American air raid this Friday.
Outraged, his family is now speaking out against what they call a murder.

"To kill a teenager is just unbelievable, really, and they claim that he is an al-Qaida militant. It's nonsense," said Nasser al-Awlaki, the boy's grandfather and former Yemeni agriculture minister. "They want to justify his killing, that's all,' he added.
Abdu Rahman al-Awlaki who was like his father a U.S citizen, was killed with his cousin, also a 17 year-old, in an American led Drone attack, which the U.S is justifying by claiming they were after alleged al-Qaeda militants.

Since the death of the 2 underage boys, the U.S has been trying to spin the story by issuing a statement describing Abdu Rahman as a 20 year-old al-Qaeda militant, when indeed he was only a boy searching for his father.

U.S officials have now said that they were still assessing the details of the attack and sorting their findings, stressing that "usually" the Pentagon was focusing on senior al-Qaeda targets, not teenagers.

As Yemen is descending into chaos, the U.S is using the lack of media focus in its activities in the southern Yemeni provinces to multiply its interventions within Yemen territories in its "War on Terror".