In a phone call to a French radio station, Sharif Kouashi maintained that he was in Yemen with AQAP bigwig Anwar al-Awlaqi, who, he said, “funded” him.
I wonder why I had to be subjected to all those weepy articles about the sainted Anwar al-Awlaqi who supposedly never hurt a fly before being cruelly mowed down by Obama’s drone? The were mile-long pieces on this about a year ago written in the tone of “the meanie Obama killed Santa al-Awlaqi and now I won’t get my Christmas gifts.”
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I guess the government knew before killing him that proof about his crimes would eventually be provided by Al Qaeda two years later.
There was his 16 year old son, too, who was killed. To which a white house spokesman commented, “He should’ve chosen a better father”.
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I object to all assassinations and extrajudicial killings. We have a criminal justice system and should use it.
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Al-Awlaqi was killed in Yemen, not in Texas. The US criminal justice system doesn’t work in Yemen.
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I repeat and expand: I do not approve of sneaking into other countries and assassinating people, there are international courts, etc.
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This is not an approach I can ever understand. I’m definitely not Western enough.
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After the Guantanamo fiasco, with thousands of people detained for years without any charges (formal or informal), some of them abruptly released without even a tiny bit of explanation as to why they were kept there and tortured for years, without any legal recourse to sue the government for damages, or for information, do we not even have an ounce of skepticism about which people our government designates as ‘terrorists’? Seriously?
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I remember an article in The Nation that instead of an ounce offered megaliters of tears over al-Awlaqi. I highly doubt they will even mention that piece in the light of recent events.
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It’s their job to know about such people. It’s probably one of the very last jobs the government will retain.
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“It’s their job to know about such people”
“It’s probably one of the very last jobs the government will retain.”
Not sure about that. One thing that the Snowden affair showed us was that even this function of the government has been outsourced to private companies who pay lip service to the idea of vetting their employees working on super sensitive national security data.
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It is still up in the air which of its functions the state will retain to have legitimacy. I don’t know what it’s going to be but it will be huge. If it isn’t anti-terrorism, it might be something to do with global warming, etc.
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