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Title: US Govt Admits to Killing Innocent Civilians During Failed Drone Assassination Attempt of British Hacker
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Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01 ... attempt-of-british-hacker.html
Published: Jan 29, 2016
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2016-01-29 19:42:26 by Deckard
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Views: 597
Comments: 5
By Matt Agorist “With nearly 10,000 air strikes, we’re taking out their leadership, their oil, their training camps, their weapons,” Obama stated during his farewell State of the Union address earlier this month. Conveniently, in those 10,000 air strikes, he failed to include the bombings of hospitals, weddings, tribal council meetings, and, at least, eight U.S. citizens, with no concern for due process or a constitutionally mandated fair trial. The Obama administration is also responsible for allowing the CIA to deploy drone strikes against a Yemeni wedding and a Pakistani tribal council meeting with total impunity. On October 3, 2015, a U.S. airstrike killed at least 20 patients and MSF staff at a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, occupied by the group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the French charitable organization, “Doctors Without Borders.” There is no question that the United States, in its carrying out of drone strikes and bombing campaigns throughout the Middle East, has killed thousands. However, the last thing the warmongers ever do is admit to these killings. On Friday, that changed as the US Central Command admitted that they killed and injured multiple civilians in the ‘vicinity’ of a drone strike meant for Junaid Hussain, on August 13, 2015. Sadly, it’s not surprising to those who pay attention to the atrocities carried out by the military-industrial complex, but what makes this case unique is that not only did the US admit to killing civilians, they also admitted to missing their target. For his alleged role in other high-profile hacking incidents, and in spite of his British citizenship, Hussain became the target of a US drone strike last year. But, instead of killing their target, the US government blew up noncombatants said to be “in the vicinity” of the strike, near IS’s Syrian capital of Raqqa. Eleven days after killing innocent civilians, the US launched another strike on the British hacker on August 24. With the UK playing a “consulting” role, Hussain was actually confirmed killed this time. However, it is unknown how many civilians were killed in this strike. Since the inception of the war on terror, US drone strikes have killed thousands of innocent civilians, including hundreds of children throughout Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Syria. Michael Haas, Brandon Bryant, Cian Westmoreland and Stephen Lewis, who served as drone operators in the US Air Force, have gone public with detailed accounts of the widespread corruption and institutionalized indifference to civilian casualties that characterize the program. After the U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families, these four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen. There is no question — those who expose the crimes of the US government become enemies of the state. For more than a decade, this reckless US policy of “surgical” drone strikes has done nothing to stave off terrorism and only served to foster it by turning the families of the innocent victims into sworn enemies of America. The reality is that since 9-11, the US and their NATO allies have fostered a breeding ground for extremist and fundamentalist groups. As Americans sat back on their couches and watched the “Shock and Awe” on CNN, the US was sowing the seeds for perpetual war. This policy played right into the hands of the, then, tiny and insignificant fundamentalist groups. However, every time a US bomb dropped into a village, this was a recruiting haven for the fundamentalists. Now, a group who was never heard of 3 years ago is recruiting people on a global scale and growing their ranks daily. As drone whistleblower Staff Sgt. Brandon Bryant said in his open letter to Barack Obama, “We kill four and create 10. If you kill someone’s father, uncle or brother who had nothing to do with anything, their families are going to want revenge.” It’s time to stop this cycle.
According to The Guardian, born in Birmingham, Hussain, 21, joined Isis’s “cyber caliphate” after a stint as part of the UK hacker group Team Poison. Known by the handle Trick and later Abu Hussain al-Britani, Hussain served six months in jail in 2012 for publishing details from an illegally obtained address book belonging to former prime minister Tony Blair. 
They were planting a garden in which a million Bin Ladens would later bloom.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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Good piece. Obama murdering brown people with robotic aircraft is not even considered news. Imagine if a Republican president was doing the same thing.
They were planting a garden in which a million Bin Ladens would later bloom. There was no shortage of Bin Ladens for fourteen hundred years befor drones existed.
Good! Hooray! Pretty much my response,also. BTW,none of those "innocents" would have been killed if they had not allowed themselves to be around terrorists. I would also want to hear the explanation from he goober that wrote this biased piece of trash "HOW are we supposed to allow US citizens "due cause" when they are in foreign countries and entrenched within terrorist armies? ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
I would agree with you if we were in a declared war. Since we are just willy nilly building and arming enemies and making a financial killing. We then fight them, so we can make more of a financial gain. I wonder how many millions or billions of dollars, John McCain and Obama are salting away from the profits of gun running? Do people actually believe our representatives are not getting a cut, like cops in a Pacino movie? If government wants to do anything, keep the sea lanes clear. Defend our borders, and STRICTLY control immigration. Otherwise get the hell out of foreign entanglements. WE many not be Satan, but our government sure as hell is.
"WE",the people are not making any financial gain. WE are the ones doing the fighting and the dying,and we are the ones paying the taxes that buy the merchandise needed to wage war. As for me,I have no problem at all with whacking a US traitor hiding in a foreign country that can't be reached and arrested without putting lives at risk,declared war or not. In FACT,there is no need to declare war if we were to only go after the people that finance the enemy and the enemy leadership. Cut off the money and all the Jihadists go home. Cut off the heads of the the Muslim leadership,and they stay home. Nobody EVER won a war by killing privates. Once we do that it's easier and cheaper to focus on protecting our borders and giving illegals the boot. We can also reduce the size of the military without putting the nation at risk. ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
With the UK playing a “consulting” role, Hussain was actually confirmed killed this time.
Good! Hooray!
#3. To: rlk (#2)
With the UK playing a “consulting” role, Hussain was actually confirmed killed this time.
#4. To: sneakypete (#3)
HOW are we supposed to allow US citizens "due cause" when they are in foreign countries and entrenched within terrorist armies?
#5. To: jeremiad (#4)
I would agree with you if we were in a declared war. Since we are just willy nilly building and arming enemies and making a financial killing. We then fight them, so we can make more of a financial gain.
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