US Drone Kills 16-Year-Old Pakistani Boy 3 Days After He Attends Anti-Drone Planning Meeting

[The Northerner]

Run time: 11:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiY41tnvkpY   Posted on YouTube: November 07, 2011 By YouTube Member: democracynow Views on YouTube: 137   Posted on DU: November 07, 2011 By DU Member: The Northerner Views on DU: 1225

 
www.DemocracyNow.org - A group of Pakistanis met in Islamabad late last month to discuss the impact of U.S. drone strikes in their communities. One of the attendees was a 16-year-old boy named Tariq Aziz who had volunteered to learn photography to begin documenting drone strikes near his home. Within 72 hours of the meeting Aziz was killed in a U.S. drone strike. His 12-year-old cousin was also killed in the Oct. 31 attack. "People were aware of the threat to them, yet they volunteered. Tariq in particular because he, at his age in that remote community, was familiar with computers, was excited about the idea of being able to document the civilian casualties," says reporter Pratap Chatterjee, who met Aziz days before he was killed. As part of a larger investigation on the CIA-led U.S. covert drone war, Chatterjee and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that drone strikes in Pakistan have killed at least 392 civilians, including 175 children. "I question as to whether the CIA is really attempting to identify people before they kill them," he says. "It would have been so easy for the CIA, the ISI to come question these kids, to have taken them aside, even put them in jail or interrogate them ... but instead, they chose to kill them."

[walerosco]

1. Neo cons already out in force unrecing

K and R and here is a link to the NYT articles on the story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x636516

End the drone wars now

[NOLALady]

2. K and R

[zalinda]

3. Damn it ! Obama give back your PEACE prize !!!!!!!!!!

You don't deserve it.

zalinda

[LeftHandPath]

4. Who are the terrorists again?

Did we learn nothing these last 30 years?

Could you imagine how we would feel if Pakistan drones were flying above our towns killing our children?

[DirkGently]

5. We ought to start calling the drone policy the Future Terrorist Maunfacturing Plan.