Huffington Post – by PETE YOST
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama.
In conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, and is aware of the killing by U.S. drones of three others, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy.
Al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric, was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen. Holder said three other Americans were killed by drones in counterterrorism operations since 2009 but were not targeted. The three are Samir Khan, who was killed in the same drone strike as al-Awlaki; al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, a native of Denver, who also was killed in Yemen two weeks later; and Jude Kenan Mohammed, who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan.
“Since entering office, the president has made clear his commitment to providing Congress and the American people with as much information as possible about our sensitive counterterrorism operations,” Holder told Leahy, D-Vt. “To this end, the president has directed me to disclose certain information that until now has been properly classified.”
“The administration is determined to continue these extensive outreach efforts to communicate with the American people,” Holder wrote.
I guess this makes them murderers? Right? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
No, just common low life terrorists. The U.S. govt. is some of the most sneaky determinded/underhanded terrorists around and they know it
Those are just the ones they’re admitting to.
And how many more will they kill and where? Will America transition to a series of suburban bunkers as protection against saying the wrong thing and getting ‘droned’? It sounds like a theme from a science fiction story, but if something doesn’t change, is that where we will be in a few years? It reminds me of a novel, Drone Wars: The Beginning (on Amazon) where the lead character said about a president murdering citizens with drones, “To live by the drone is to die by the drone.” Are we just now entering the beginning of a wide-spread drone war? Drones can work both ways and several countries are buying and building them. All I can say is ‘duck’.
CAN anyone file article’s of impeachment or is this just the congresses job.