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In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine a constant buzzing [View all]DeSwiss
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ACLU sues to force release of drone attack records
By Karen DeYoung,February 01, 2012
Wednesday’s ACLU complaint referred to wide media coverage of the administration’s 2010 decision to place Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen allegedly allied with Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, on “kill lists” compiled by the CIA and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command.
Awlaki was killed in September in Yemen by a joint CIA-JSOC drone operation that similarly received wide publicity.
Samir Khan, also a U.S. citizen, was reported killed in the same attack. Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, was reportedly killed in a JSOC drone strike two weeks later.
At the time, public statements by Obama confirmed the elder Awlaki’s death. News reports indicated that the operation had been carried out after the administration requested and received an opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel saying that targeting and killing U.S. citizens overseas was legal under domestic and international law.
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-01/world/35443276_1_al-awlaki-drone-program-samir-khan
By Karen DeYoung,February 01, 2012
Wednesday’s ACLU complaint referred to wide media coverage of the administration’s 2010 decision to place Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen allegedly allied with Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, on “kill lists” compiled by the CIA and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command.
Awlaki was killed in September in Yemen by a joint CIA-JSOC drone operation that similarly received wide publicity.
Samir Khan, also a U.S. citizen, was reported killed in the same attack. Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, was reportedly killed in a JSOC drone strike two weeks later.
At the time, public statements by Obama confirmed the elder Awlaki’s death. News reports indicated that the operation had been carried out after the administration requested and received an opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel saying that targeting and killing U.S. citizens overseas was legal under domestic and international law.
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-01/world/35443276_1_al-awlaki-drone-program-samir-khan
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That quote begs for clarity. Who are "the weak"? I think it might make more sense to say
live love laugh
Aug 2013
#48
There's been a lot of writing about that idea, just using different terms, e.g.:
HiPointDem
Aug 2013
#21
not only that book. the idea that guerilla tactics are used against the more powerful by the
HiPointDem
Aug 2013
#30
We famously used guerrilla tactics when we fought the British for independence.
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#33
And there are many unintentional terrorists. Those tangentially related to the military industry.
Gregorian
Aug 2013
#2
Are we killing any white innocent children, or just brownish Muslim-looking ones (from the air)?
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#36
So I wonder, how does this president look his own daughters in the eyes?
SammyWinstonJack
Aug 2013
#51