Boo-hoo, he was traveling in the same convoy as Anwar al-Awlaki, ran AQAP’s propaganda arm and was helping to plot attacks on America.

(AFP) — The family of a Pakistani-American al-Qaeda propagandist who died in an air strike in Yemen has hit at the US government for killing their “law-abiding” son.

Samir Khan, who was the editor of Inspire, al-Qaeda’s English-language magazine, was killed alongside US-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki last week in a suspected US drone strike.

But his family, who live in Charlotte, North Carolina, condemned the military operation and defended Khan in a statement released to a local newspaper and broadcasters after days of intense media scrutiny.

“It has been stated in the media that Samir was not the target of the attack; however no US official has contacted us with any news about the recovery of our son’s remains, nor offered us any condolences,” they said.

“As a result, we feel appalled by the indifference shown to us by our government,” the statement added.

The killing of Awlaki and Khan, 25, has weakened al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Thursday, but questions have been raised over the legality of the lethal air strike.

The Khan family said questions should be officially answered on why the terror targets could not have been captured and put on trial.

“Being a law abiding citizen of the United States our late son Samir Khan never broke any law and was never implicated of any crime,” they said.

Khan did write in Inspire that he was a “proud American traitor,” now he’s a proud dead American traitor.