#Pakistan #Yemen:Video - Obama Killer Drones - The Nobel Peace Prize In The Hands Of A Cold Blooded Murderer.

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The US has urged on continuing its assassination drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, in defiance of the criticisms which condemn the operations as aggressions against civilians.

In recent days, at least 17 people have lost their lives in Pakistan and Yemen following the drone strikes, which Washington claims are targeted at suspected terrorists in the countries.

Yemeni opposition activist and Nobel Peace laureate Tawakul Karman says US drone strikes in southern Yemen are ineffective because they are hitting mainly civilians.

Tribal leaders in Yemen have warned that the attacks have been turning more Yemenis against Sana’a and Washington.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, Waziristan and other tribal northwestern regions been frequently targeted by US drones over the past few years.

Figures show that the American drone strikes have killed at least 212 people in Yemen and Pakistan in the month of May.

The aerial attacks were initiated by former US President George W. Bush but have been escalated under President Barack Obama.

The following is a rush transcript of Press TV’s interview with Tighe Barry, an American political activist with CODEPINK in Washington, about the issue:


Press TV: The first question that comes to mind is How legal are these drone strikes. What international authority allows the US to carry out such attacks?

Barry: I would like to start out with what you stated. These are suspected terrorists or suspected evildoers, as term is used by our government. These drone strikes are definitely illegal under the international law.

The US at one point says it is in a war on terror and with terrorists. These are wars that are allowed to conduct. These wars are conducted by a group called CIA. These are CIA drone strikes. We do not know the criteria that they are using to pick out the suspected terrorists.

Dennis Kucinich, the representative from Ohio, has called on the United States government in a bill in the House of Representatives to give us the criteria of how they are picking up their list of suspects; how they are conducting these weapon strikes; and who is actually in charge of all the equipment that has been in use.

At this point, everything that I just mentioned is unknown to the American public and even to our House representatives.

Press TV: Why is it that only Muslim countries are the target?

Barry: It is obvious. It is easy for them to use the Muslims as a scapegoat. The United States has been in dangerous peril of its economy collapsing; Europe is falling into economic collapse. So, they find an easy scapegoat to take the people’s minds off of what is truly affecting their everyday lives.

These drone strikes are just a tool that Obama is using to not take prisoners, so that the truth won’t one day be revealed that they killed everyone while they are doing the drone strikes; [so that] there is nobody to come out to say that they were not terrorists and there is no terrorist activity in Yemen, Pakistan, in the northern region of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and that we use these weapons in Somali and Sudan.

Press TV: It's interesting that one report indicated that President Obama is given a list of nominees and then he signs the list for the drones to kill those nominees. Many say what Obama is actually doing is committing summary executions?

Barry: Absolutely; and some of these people who have been killed so far are Americans; are children; He has put children on the list of targets. The president has no authority to put anyone on a hit list.

In 1973, when it was revealed that the United States had a secret hit list and they attempted to kill leaders overseas, this was put into our law that no president has this authority. Obama is usurping the constitution and it is funny you are mentioning the Nobel Peace Prize winners, because Barack Obama is a Nobel Peace Prize winner that is clearly murdering people overseas.

#Azizabad #US Massacre : Double Standards On Civilian Deaths.

In the war fever being ramped up against Syria, there is broad public indignation over the massacre of more than 100 civilians in the town of Houla last weekend. Would that the U.S. diplomatic corps and the commercial press were equally outraged over our own military's atrocities.

While details of the Syrian massacre are unclear and still subject to dispute, Canada, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Australia, Germany, Spain and the United States have expelled Syrian diplomats in protest. The State Department called the rampage "despicable" and complained about a regime that could "connive in or organize" such a thing.

However, the department was silent on the U.S. killing four years ago of just as many Afghan civilians, including 60 children, in Azizabad. A draft UN Security Council press statement said about the Aug. 22, 2008, bombing that member nations "strongly deplore the fact that this is not the first incident of this kind" and that "the killing and maiming of civilians is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law."....read more


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#Pakistan: #Obama Killer Drones - 12 More Dead.

Ten more people have been killed by a US drone strike against suspected militants in Pakistan, with the aircraft firing its missiles into a gathering mourning one of two fighters killed in a similar atttack the previous day.

 

Two Pakistani intelligence officials say four missiles were fired at the village of Mana Raghzai in South Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan on Sunday morning.

At the time of the attack, suspected militants had gathered to offer condolences to the brother of a militant commander killed during another US unmanned drone attack on Saturday. The brother was one of those who died in the Sunday morning attack. The Pakistani officials said two of the dead were foreigners and the rest were Pakistani.

It brought to 12 the total number of people killed in two days and was the sixth American drone strike over the last two weeks. The US government considers the drone campaign a vital tool in the war against al-Qaida and the Taliban.

 

The drone campaign has been a source of deep frustration and tension between the US and Pakistan. Under Barack Obama the US has stepped up its drone campaign in the Pakistani border areas as a way to combat insurgents and terrorists who use Pakistan as a base for attacks against American and Nato forces in Afghanistan. The number of drone attacks has eased in recent years.

 

Many Pakistani military commanders are believed to secretly support the drone campaign. But among the Pakistani public, where the US is viewed with mistrust, the strikes are considered an affront to the country's sovereignty.

 

The attacks are complicating efforts for the US and Pakistan to come to an agreement over reopening the supply routes to Nato and American forces in Afghanistan. US air strikes inadvertently killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November, prompting Islamabad to block the supply lines into Afghanistan. Pakistan wants an apology and an end to drone strikes before it reopens them.

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#Pakistan: #USA Drone Kills 10 In Northwest Pakistan.

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - The second U.S. drone attack in as many days killed 10 people in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, intelligence officials said, an incident likely to raise tensions in the standoff between Washington and Islamabad over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan.

The remotely-piloted aircraft fired four missiles at a suspected Islamist militant hideout in the Birmal area of the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghanistan border, officials said.

A drone strike in the same area killed two suspected militants on Saturday.

The United States and Pakistan are locked in difficult negotiations to re-open overland supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan, with no signs of a breakthrough.

Islamabad blocked the routes last November to protest the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers by cross-border friendly fire from NATO aircraft. The supply lines through Pakistan are considered vital to the planned withdrawal of most foreign combat troops from Afghanistan before the end of 2014.

Israel : TAPI gas pipline Israel want in place by 2014

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The CIA drone campaign fuels anti-U.S. sentiment in Pakistan and is counterproductive because of collateral damage, Pakistani officials say. But U.S. officials say such strikes are highly effective against militants.

(Reporting by Hafiz Wazir in WANA, Saud Mehsud in DERA ISMAIL KHAN and Jibran Ahmad in PESHAWAR; Writing by Qasim Nauman, Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)

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USA Threats To Pakistan Over IRAN Gas Pipeline.
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#Pakistan: US missiles kill 2 in northwest Pakistan

By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD, Associated Press – 

  DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — An American drone fired two missiles at a motorbike in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing two suspected militants, officials said, as the U.S. pushed on with its drone campaign despite repeated Pakistani protests.

This was the fifth such strike in the country in less than two weeks.

Two Pakistani intelligence officials said the missiles hit in Dogh village near Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan tribal region....read more

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#Afghanistan :Suicide Attack On Afghan NATO Base - 7 Dead 13 Injured.

Afghan children remain nameless and faceless, to Obama an Afghan child has no value.


A suicide attacker rammed a truck packed with explosives into a checkpoint at a NATO base outside Khost in eastern Afghanistan, killing up to seven Afghans in the east of the country, a security official said.
­Just a month ago the Afghan capital Kabul was hit by at least five explosions, resulting in the deaths of at least seven people. The attacks, claimed by the Taliban, took place following surprise visit by the US president just hours after his plane took off. The Taliban later confirmed that the bombing attacks were their response to Obama’s visit...read more


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#Pakistan #Somalia #Yemen : #Obama Drone Clandestine Strikes In Pakistan Yemen And Somalia.

A summary of US actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia in the secret war on terror.

The Bureau’s Covert War project has been tracking drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. Here we summarise our key work and findings in May:

Yemen

May 2012 actions

Confirmed US drone strikes: 5
Further reported/ possible US strike events: 18
Alleged militants reported killed in US operations: 23 – 171
Civilians reported killed in US strikes: 1 – 31

All Actions 2002 – 2012*

Total confirmed US operations: 44 – 54
Total confirmed US drone strikes: 31 – 41
Possible additional US operations: 86 – 95
Of which possible additional US drone strikes: 48 – 54
Total reported killed: 317 – 814
Total civilians killed: 58 – 138
Children killed: 24

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As in April, intense fighting meant that Yemen again dominated the Bureau’s reporting. Five US drone strikes were confirmed by US or Yemeni officials.

However, an additional 18 possible US strikes were also reported, allegedly involving not only drones but US naval vessels and aircraft. Among these were up to four attacks by warships on militant positions. It was also confirmed that American F-15 Strike Eagles are now based at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti, adding weight to claims of US air sorties over Yemen.

With few confirmed operations it was difficult to pin down precise casualty figures. The Bureau’s data shows that between 23 and 171 people died in US operations in May, including a number of named senior militants such as Fahd al-Quso. However, among the dead were up to 31 civilians. Between 8 and 26 civilians died in just one incident in Jaar on May 15, though this may have been the work of the Yemen Air Force.

US troops were also reported to be just 40 miles from the front lines, helping to direct a Yemeni military offensive aimed at driving Islamist insurgents from cities in the south. Saying that its actions were in retaliation, Ansar al Sharia killed more than 100 soldiers in a suicide bomb attack on Sanaa.

* All but one of these actions have taken place during the Obama presidency. Reports of incidents in Yemen often conflate individual strikes. The range in the total strikes and total drone strikes we have recorded reflects this. ...read more


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