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By MP/JR

44 people have been killed in separate US assassination drone strikes in Somalia, Pakistan and Yemen in a single day.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29532.htm



Pakistan: US kills 11 'militants' in Waziristan

In the first attack, a CIA-operated drone fired two missiles at a pick-up truck in Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan Agency, TV news channels quoted officials as saying.

http://goo.gl/aueMf


From Information Clearing House

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Assassinating children

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/27/11

The extraordinary power of the U.S. government to assassinate people has, once again, been manifested in the assassination of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. No, that s not Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Muslim cleric whom U.S. officials recently assassinated in Yemen. That s Abdulrahm al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki. There are several things that are especially fascinating about the U.S. government s assassination of this American teenager, who apparently traveled to Yemen looking for his father before his father was assassinated: First, the U.S. government has assassinated a minor...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-10-27.asp



Hope and change? Hardly

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Richard Schwartzman

George W. Bush was a disgrace to the presidency. He initiated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he ran roughshod over civil liberties here at home in the name of what he called a war on terrorism. Barack Obama is worse. Not only has Obama kept the United States engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he?s upped the U.S. military presence in Pakistan and Yemen, he s building a base for drones in Ethiopia, he dropped bombs in Libya, and he just committed troops to Uganda...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1110t.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Waziristan
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