The matrix broke today and an actual Yemeni was allowed to testify about drones in the Senate -
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 23 Apr
The matrix broke today and an actual Yemeni was allowed to testify about drones in the Senate - he was brilliant
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/04/23/drone-war-terrorizes-yemenis-expert-tells-senate-committee/ …
Drone War ‘Terrorizes’ Yemenis, Expert Tells Senate Committee
The Obama administration’s drone war in Yemen “terrorizes” the local population, kills civilians regularly, and helps al-Qaeda recruit new members by sowing anti-American sentiment, according to testimony from a Yemeni activist in a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
“Just six days ago, my village was struck by a drone, in an attack that terrified thousands of simple, poor farmers,” Farea Al-Muslimi told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing on the legality of the drone war. “The drone strike and its impact tore my heart, much as the tragic bombings in Boston last week tore your hearts and also mine.”
“What radicals had previously failed to achieve in my village,” al-Muslimi said, “one drone strike accomplished in an instant: there is now an intense anger and growing hatred of America,” adding that he has ”seen Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula use US strikes to promote its agenda and try to recruit more terrorists.”
Rosa Brooks, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, told the Senate that the Obama administration’s drone war undermines the rule of law.
(More at the link. Do I have to add that war is money, and war requires enemies, even if you have to create them to continue the profit parade? Much less the debt mountain being used to "austerity" the country?)
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