The CIA's Unaccountable Drone War Claims Another 16-year-old Casualty

[The Northerner]

Last Friday, I met a boy, just before he was assassinated by the CIA. Tariq Aziz was 16, a quiet young man from North Waziristan, who, like most teenagers, enjoyed soccer. Seventy-two hours later, a Hellfire missile is believed to have killed him as he was travelling in a car to meet his aunt in Miran Shah, to take her home after her wedding. Killed with him was his 12-year-old cousin, Waheed Khan.

Over 2,300 people in Pakistan have been killed by such missiles carried by drone aircraft such as the Predator and the Reaper, and launched by remote control from Langley, Virginia. Tariq and Waheed brought the known total of children killed in this way to 175, according to statistics maintained by the organisation I work for, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

The final order to kill is signed allegedly by Stephen Preston, the general counsel at the CIA headquarters. What evidence, I would like to know, does Mr Preston have against Tariq and Waheed? What right does he have to act as judge, jury and executioner of two teenage boys neither he nor his staff have ever met, let alone cross-examined, or given the opportunity to present witnesses?

It is not too late to call for a prosecution and trial of whoever pushed the button and the US government officials who gave the order: that is, Mr Preston and his boss, President Barack Obama.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pratap-chatterjee/cia-drone-casualties_b_1086622.html

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[RC]

2. How would we react if some other country was doing that to us, US in this country?

So why do we do it? We are at war with Pakistan? When did that happen?

[piratefish08]

9. what kind of bombs would they drop on us? it's hard to make an argument against

Freedom Bombs...... We love that shit.

[polly7]

3. I hate those *'ing drones, they're the most disgusting thing on the planet.

Two more children dead!... but who's counting?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. Too bad the president doesn't have any pull with the CIA, otherwise he could do something

[Gregorian]

5. Creating new terrorists, one drone attack at a time.

I see this as how our military keeps itself alive. Create new enemies.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. WE have BECOME the terrorists.

[GeorgeGist]

7. Collateral killing is OK ...

when Obama does it.

[_ed_]

8. Murdering children in cold blood

And most Democrats look the other way or actually support this. Remember when Democrats gave a shit about civil liberties and the rule of law? Oh yeah, that's only when they don't hold the Presidency.