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Terrorism?
Oct. 4th, 2011 08:47 amSo, the CIA finally managed to track down and kill that notorious criminal Al-Awlaki.
Apparently, he is known as "The Bin Laden of the Internet" and "The Facebook Friend from Hell"
He has posted several videos praising Al-Qaeda and condemning the United States on Youtube. Some of them, Youtube took down.
And, the CIA found him, and flew an unmanned drone to where he was and dropped a hellfire missile on him. Also killed was Samir Khan, a magazine editor. Sorry, make that a terrorist editor of an evil magazine.
Also killed were a bunch of other random people whose names we don't know, so apparently they don't matter. They're like, extras, or something.
So, two terrorists down. Good for the CIA, right?
Except... another way to look at it is: two U.S. Citizens (did I mention that both the named people were US Citizens?) were given the death penalty, with no trial, for the crimes of blogging and publishing a magazine.
In other words, the CIA murdered two people in order to silence them. And they held a press conference to announce it. Isn't extra-judicial killing in order to silence critics the sort of thing the CIA usually spends its time covering up</>?
Apparently, he is known as "The Bin Laden of the Internet" and "The Facebook Friend from Hell"
He has posted several videos praising Al-Qaeda and condemning the United States on Youtube. Some of them, Youtube took down.
And, the CIA found him, and flew an unmanned drone to where he was and dropped a hellfire missile on him. Also killed was Samir Khan, a magazine editor. Sorry, make that a terrorist editor of an evil magazine.
Also killed were a bunch of other random people whose names we don't know, so apparently they don't matter. They're like, extras, or something.
So, two terrorists down. Good for the CIA, right?
Except... another way to look at it is: two U.S. Citizens (did I mention that both the named people were US Citizens?) were given the death penalty, with no trial, for the crimes of blogging and publishing a magazine.
In other words, the CIA murdered two people in order to silence them. And they held a press conference to announce it. Isn't extra-judicial killing in order to silence critics the sort of thing the CIA usually spends its time covering up</>?
