[Peace-discuss] Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.

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Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.<http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/january/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/>
In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA<http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/> to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September, 2011 drone strike.

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Nawar al-Awlaki, killed by US, Jan. 29th.

In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA<http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/> to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September, 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate – the once-again-beloved ACLU sued Obama to restrain him<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/world/middleeast/08killing.html> from the assassination on the ground of due process and then, when that suit was dismissed, sued Obama again after the killing was carried out<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/07/aclu-sues-awlaki-khan-death> – another drone-killing carried out shortly thereafter was perhaps even more significant yet generated relatively little attention.

Two weeks after the killing of Awlaki, a separate CIA drone strike in Yemenkilled his 16-year-old American-born son<http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/>, Abdulrahman, along with the boy’s 17-year-old cousin and several other innocent Yemenis. The US eventually claimed that the boy was not their target but merely “collateral damage.” Abdulrahman’s grief-stricken grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki, urged the Washington Post “to visit a Facebook memorial page for Abdulrahman<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Abdulrahman-Anwar-Al-Awlaki-locked-in-our-hearts/278913108798118?sk=wall>,” which explained: “Look at his pictures, his friends, and his hobbies His Facebook page shows a typical kid.”

Few events pulled the mask off Obama officials like this one. It highlighted how the Obama administration was ravaging Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries: just weeks after he won the Nobel Prize, Obama used cluster bombs<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/7806882/US-cluster-bombs-killed-35-women-and-children.html> that killed 35 Yemeni women and children. Even Obama-supporting liberal comedians mocked the Obama DOJ’s arguments for why it had the right to execute Americans with no charges: “Due Process Just Means There’s A Process That You Do,” snarked Stephen Colbert<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/colbert-targeted-killing-due-process-just-means-theres-process-you-do>. And a firestorm erupted when former Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs offered a sociopathic justification<https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/> for killing the Colorado-born teenager, apparently blaming him for his own killing by saying he should have “had a more responsible father.”
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In a hideous symbol of the bipartisan continuity of US barbarism, Nasser al-Awlaki just lost another one of his young grandchildren to US violence. On Sunday, the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, using armed Reaper drones for cover, carried out a commando raid on what it said was a compound harboring officials of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. A statement issued by President Trump lamented the death of an American service member and several others who were wounded, but made no mention of any civilian deaths. US military officials initially denied any civilian deaths, and (therefore) the CNN report on the raid<http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/us-servicemember-killed-in-raid-on-al-qaeda-in-yemen/index.html> said nothing about any civilians being killed.

But reports from Yemen quickly surfaced<http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-yemen-qaeda-idUKKBN15D094> that 30 people were killed, including 10 women and children. Among the dead: the 8-year-old granddaughter of Nasser al-Awlaki, Nawar, who was also the daughter of Anwar Awlaki.

As noted by my colleague Jeremy Scahill<https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/825739482527887361> – who extensively interviewed the grandparents in Yemen for his book and film on Obama’s “Dirty Wars” –  the girl “was shot in the neck and killed,” bleeding to death over the course of two hours. “Why kill children?,” the grandfather asked. “This is the new (US) administration – it’s very sad, a big crime.”

The New York Times yesterday reported<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/world/middleeast/american-commando-killed-in-yemen-in-trumps-first-counterterror-operation.html> that military officials had been planning and debating the raid for months under the Obama administration, but Obama officials decided to leave the choice to Trump. The new President personally authorized the attack last week.

Fair Use Excerpt. Read the article here<https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/>.
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