Another U.S. citizen assassinated by military drone

[rambone]

In Yemen, a terminator drone targeted and killed the 16-year-old son of Anwar Al-Awlaki. He was also a U.S. citizen, and had also not been charged with any crime. I've seen no reports that claimed he was any kind of terror-mastermind or posed even the slightest threat to America's national security, as he rode around in the Yemen countryside with his teenage buddies.

Nothing to see here.


al-Awlaki family speaks out against deaths

The teenager, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver in 1995, and his 17-year-old Yemeni cousin were killed in a U.S. military strike that left nine people dead in southeastern Yemen. The young Awlaki was the third American killed in Yemen in as many weeks. Samir Khan, an al-Qaeda propagandist from North Carolina, died alongside Anwar al-Awlaki.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

When you can point to the government assassinating an American citizen in THIS country, you will have my attention. Until then, I am massively unconcerned with the fate of US traitors in foreign countries with ineffective central governments and no extradition treaties with the US.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Even children?

 

[rambone]

When you can point to the government assassinating an American citizen in THIS country, you will have my attention. Until then, I am massively unconcerned with the fate of US traitors in foreign countries with ineffective central governments and no extradition treaties with the US.

WHEN that happens, it will already be too late.

 

[jeremy]

When you can point to the government assassinating an American citizen in THIS country, you will have my attention. Until then, I am massively unconcerned with the fate of US traitors in foreign countries with ineffective central governments and no extradition treaties with the US.

This...

Even children?

In Yemen a 17 year Old is Hardly a child...

 

[phylodog]

What a tragedy. Just think of the lives that could have been lost attempting to bring these "citizens" to justice. Hard working, all American young men, stripped of the privilege of dying for their country while attempting to make sure that these most deserving souls were provided the protection of the constitution they so desperately want to burn. I, for one, won't be sleeping well tonight thinking of the poor, poor An-Wa-Cram-it family as they mourn the loss of their loved ones.

May their virgins have genital warts and chronic halitosis.

 

[ATOMonkey]

In Yemen a 17 year Old is Hardly a child...

Where do you draw the line? Who is and is not an acceptable target for termination?

 

[88GT]

Where do you draw the line? Who is and is not an acceptable target for termination?

Not based (solely) on their age, that's for sure.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Not based (solely) on their age, that's for sure.

Well, age certainly needs to be considered, right?

If abdullah muhamed ala akhbar, is killed via hellfire, along with his wife and infant children, for promoting violence over the internet, is that ok?

 

[badwolf.usmc]

Well, age certainly needs to be considered, right?

If abdullah muhamed ala akhbar, is killed via hellfire, along with his wife and infant children, for promoting violence over the internet, is that ok?

Was he the target of the drone attack, or was he just with the militants when they were attacked?

 

[ATOMonkey]

Was he the target of the drone attack, or was he just with the militants when they were attacked?

Does it matter? Collateral damage is collateral damage.

 

[ZombieApocolypse]

When you can point to the government assassinating an American citizen in THIS country, you will have my attention. Until then, I am massively unconcerned with the fate of US traitors in foreign countries with ineffective central governments and no extradition treaties with the US.

How about other countries assasinating people in the US? Why is it ok for us to do this, but say, Iran cant assassinate that Saudi guy?

 

[badwolf.usmc]

Does it matter? Collateral damage is collateral damage.

How do you know he was collateral damage? Or was the US just shooting missiles at a BBQs to kill some brown people?

 

[ATOMonkey]

What about the kids?

 

[badwolf.usmc]

What about the kids?

I'm sure their wives and the family will take care of their kids for them.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I'm sure their wives and the family will take care of their kids for them.

Ok, reset.

Bad guy is targeted by drone. He is taken out during Sunday dinner. Several women and children are killed as a result of the CIA hellfire attack.

Good, bad, or indifferent?

 

[mrjarrell]

Ok, reset.

Bad guy is targeted by drone. He is taken out during Sunday dinner. Several women and children are killed as a result of the CIA hellfire attack.

Good, bad, or indifferent?

Sadly, par for the course. The US drone programs have been murdering innocent people for years now. No-one cares because they're just little brown people on the other side of the globe. "Oh, we killed a 'bad guy', too bad we had to also murder 12 other innocent people to get him. Oh, well". We're creating the next generation of terrorists and most Americans are just fine with that.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Sadly, par for the course. The US drone programs have been murdering innocent people for years now. No-one cares because they're just little brown people on the other side of the globe. "Oh, we killed a 'bad guy', too bad we had to also murder 12 other innocent people to get him. Oh, well". We're creating the next generation of terrorists and most Americans are just fine with that.

So, you're saying we need to kill all of the children so there won't be a next generation of terrorists???




^ intentionally obtuse

 

[gunman41mag]

BAD SEED is destroy, hopefully that D N A has been wipe-out

 

[watkins1988]

i forget...did innocent people die on 9/11?