Codename Section
12-17-2013, 10:33 AM
But hey...Bush killed people, too, so who gives a shit, amirite?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/29/pakistan-family-drone-victim-testimony-congress
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/10/29/1383072506298/ddbd0c18-2c73-4691-86c5-816923a294f6-460x276.jpeg
Rafiq ur Rehman, a Pakistani primary school teacher who appeared on Capitol Hill with his children (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/29/www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/drones-attack-pakistan-family-rehman-congress), Zubair, 13, and Nabila, 9, described his mother, Momina Bibi, as the "string that held our family together". His two children, who were gathering okra with their grandmother the day she was killed, on 24 October 2012, were injured in the attack.
"Nobody has ever told me why my mother was targeted that day," Rehman said, through a translator. "Some media outlets reported that the attack was on a car, but there is no road alongside my mother’s house. Others reported that the attack was on a house. But the missiles hit a nearby field, not a house. All of them reported that three, four, five militants were killed."
Instead, he said, only one person was killed that day: "Not a militant but my mother."
"In urdu we have a saying: aik lari main pro kay rakhna. Literally translated, it means the string that holds the pearls together. That is what my mother was. She was the string that held our family together. Since her death, the string has been broken and life has not been the same. We feel alone and we feel lost."
An Amnesty International report (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/amnesty-us-officials-war-crimes-drones), published last week, lists Bibi among 900 civilians they say have been killed by drone strikes, a far higher number than previously reported. The Amnesty report said the US may have committed war crimes and should stand trial for its actions.
The US has repeatedly claimed very few civilians have been killed by drones. It argues its campaign is conducted "consistent with all applicable domestic and international law". Unofficial reports, however, have suggested that hundreds have been killed in Pakistan alone, with up to 200 children killed.
She should suck it up, I guess...it was only her mother and they shouldn't have been living in Pakistan anyway and --oh yeh, Bush is an asshole.
Personally, I think Obama should man up and tell the CIA to sit the fuck down.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/29/pakistan-family-drone-victim-testimony-congress
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/10/29/1383072506298/ddbd0c18-2c73-4691-86c5-816923a294f6-460x276.jpeg
Rafiq ur Rehman, a Pakistani primary school teacher who appeared on Capitol Hill with his children (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/29/www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/drones-attack-pakistan-family-rehman-congress), Zubair, 13, and Nabila, 9, described his mother, Momina Bibi, as the "string that held our family together". His two children, who were gathering okra with their grandmother the day she was killed, on 24 October 2012, were injured in the attack.
"Nobody has ever told me why my mother was targeted that day," Rehman said, through a translator. "Some media outlets reported that the attack was on a car, but there is no road alongside my mother’s house. Others reported that the attack was on a house. But the missiles hit a nearby field, not a house. All of them reported that three, four, five militants were killed."
Instead, he said, only one person was killed that day: "Not a militant but my mother."
"In urdu we have a saying: aik lari main pro kay rakhna. Literally translated, it means the string that holds the pearls together. That is what my mother was. She was the string that held our family together. Since her death, the string has been broken and life has not been the same. We feel alone and we feel lost."
An Amnesty International report (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/amnesty-us-officials-war-crimes-drones), published last week, lists Bibi among 900 civilians they say have been killed by drone strikes, a far higher number than previously reported. The Amnesty report said the US may have committed war crimes and should stand trial for its actions.
The US has repeatedly claimed very few civilians have been killed by drones. It argues its campaign is conducted "consistent with all applicable domestic and international law". Unofficial reports, however, have suggested that hundreds have been killed in Pakistan alone, with up to 200 children killed.
She should suck it up, I guess...it was only her mother and they shouldn't have been living in Pakistan anyway and --oh yeh, Bush is an asshole.
Personally, I think Obama should man up and tell the CIA to sit the fuck down.