World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/06-5

US Predator Drone TR425 on Trial for Killing Innocent Afghan Civilians
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/06

The Osama Bin Laden Exception
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/06-8

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Pakistan paints dismal image of bin Laden s end

Pakistan s military paints a far different picture than the United States of Osama bin Laden's final days: not the terror mastermind still trying to strike America, but an aging terrorist hiding in barren rooms, short of money and struggling to maintain his grip on al-Qaida.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/pakistan-paints-dismal-image-936998.html



The Politics Of Revenge And Submission

By Phil Rockstroh

Be very careful when you proclaim: 'I'm glad 'we' got bin Laden. He deserved it.' Be very grateful most of us don t get what we deserve.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28038.htm



More Extrajudicial Killing: US kills 17 people in Pakistan

The US carried out its first drone attack in Pakistan since Osama Bin Laden s death in an American raid this week, killing 17 people in a hail of missiles near the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

http://gulftoday.ae/portal/6d518fbb-53d8-4570-8387-e5ec7cb16e37.aspx



More Extrajudicial Killing: US Kills 2 People in Yemen

Two killed in drone attack despite state s no-fly promise: The foreign minister said last September that the government would no longer allow missile strikes by pilotless aircraft, which are widely resented in the country because of the high rate of civilian casualties.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/104342



My Reaction to Osama bin Laden s Death

By Noam Chomsky

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28045.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The Hancock 37 v. the Drones

Nick Mottern, Truthout: 'In the week leading up to Easter 2011, antiwar organizers in upstate New York held a remarkable series of events aimed at grounding the MQ-9 Reaper drones flying over Afghanistan controlled from Hancock Field in Syracuse, one of several drone bases in the United States. The culmination came on the afternoon of April 22, Good Friday in the Christian calendar, when 37 protesters were arrested for refusing to leave the main driveway into Hancock Field.'

http://www.truthout.org/hancock-37-v-official-lawlessness-and-destruction-empathy/1304695725



The Hancock 37 v. The Drones, Part Two

Nick Mottern, Truthout: 'The Syracuse protesters, like antiwar protesters around the country, are in a fight to bring the reality of war into the US public consciousness in the face of real but unacknowledged press censorship of images of the wounded and dead. They are also fighting a callousness and viciousness in society that is arguably engendered by lawlessness at the top of government, evidenced in an aggressive determination to ignore international law that would prevent drone attacks in Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan.'

http://www.truthout.org/hancock-37-v-official-lawlessness-part-two-daffodils/1304703189



Taking Credit Versus Taking Action

Wilmer J. Leon III, PhD, Truthout: 'If conservatives want to give former president Bush the credit for the capture of bin Laden, they must also ensure that he take the responsibility for the misinformation and disinformation that led us into two protracted military misadventures. Every single excuse that Cheney/Bush provided to the American people for invading Afghanistan and Iraq proved to be false: The 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, not Afghanistan. No weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) were found in Iraq. No relationship between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden tied Hussein to 9/11. No attempt from Saddam to purchase ?yellow cake? uranium from Niger was ever documented.'

http://www.truthout.org/taking-credit-versus-taking-action/1304708792



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