Villagers join al-Qaeda after deadly US strike
I believe this would be called blow back. Something the war mongers don’t understand. The more the US military bombs and murders the more terrorists they are creating.
Recently villagers in Sabul, about 15 kilometres from Radda, reported hearing US drones fly over the area, often up to four times a day. ”It burns my blood every time I see or hear the airplanes,” said Ali Ahmed Mukhbil, a 40-year-old farmer.
Nasser Rubaih, a 26-year-old farmer, was working in the valley on the day the truck was hit. He heard the explosions and ran to the site and, like others, threw sand into the burning vehicle to douse the flames. As he sifted through the charred bodies lying on the road, he recognised his brother Abdullah from his clothes. Mr Mukhbil’s brother Masood was also dead.
The Yemeni government publicly apologised for the attack and sent 101 guns to tribal leaders in the area, which in Yemeni culture is an admission of guilt. But a government inquiry into the strike appears to be stalled. After a December 2009 air strike killed dozens of civilians in the southern town of al-Majala, the government also took responsibility.
”We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours,” the then dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh told General David Petraeus, then the head of US Central Command, according to a US embassy email leaked by WikiLeaks.
Three weeks after the Radda attack, Mr Hadi visited Washington and praised the accuracy of US drone strikes. ”They pinpoint the target and have zero margin of error, if you know what target you’re aiming at,” he told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars.
Al-Qaeda sent emissaries to Sabul to offer compensation to victims’ relatives, in comparison to the government that provided nothing. Some relatives have already joined the terrorist group since the attack, Radda’s security chief, Hamoud Mohamed al-Ammari, said. Others may follow. ”If I am sure the Americans are the ones who killed my brother, I will join al-Qaeda and fight against America,” Mr Rubaih said.
"The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation."
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If Obama is allowed to make a kill list, that means I can make one too right?
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"Murder is murder, theft is theft, whether undertaken by one man against another, or by a group, or even by the majority of people within a given territorial area. The fact that a majority might support or condone an act of theft does not diminish the criminal essence of the act or its grave injustice. Otherwise, we would have to say, for example, that any Jews murdered by the democratically elected Nazi government were not murdered, but only ‘voluntarily committed suicide’ – surely, the grotesque but logical implication of the ‘democracy as voluntary’ doctrine."
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