WaPo: Saad bin Laden, 27, an al-Qaeda member who has been linked to terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia, is believed to have been among the victims of a series of strikes by unmanned CIA Predator aircraft in the past few months, the officials said. If confirmed, he would be the closest relative to bin Laden killed by U.S. forces since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.There are some indications that he may be dead, but it’s not 100 percent certain.
Aw, what a pity. Like to get things like this squared away. Who we killed, who not. Keeps things nice and clean.
Speaking of clean, love them drones. Not so much as a fingerprint left behind. Death by remote control, ain’t it cool.
Kinda like a video game.
Plus, when we kill ‘em all—the bin Ladens, the terrorists, one by one—Terrorism will be gone!
Way to go, CIA. Way to think.
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Predator Drones attack and fire Hell fire missiles in the north of Pakistan and have killed about 200 people since last August 2008. That’s what the military tells us. It doesn’t acknowledge much else. Messy business, wars. There is news of American soldiers committing suicide after they return from their tours of duty. What is needed are heartless warriors, with a high–unlimited capacity to kill, incapable of empathy. And they are here. These warriors called drones are “fighting” in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reading the news I learn that there are 5300 robots in the military’s inventory and there are over 12,000 in its employ on the ground. The next generation of fighters—are heartless, capable of killing, incapable of suicide incapable of being tried. Drones.
Image and quote, Under The Sealed Sky: Drones by Maniza Naqvi. Read the whole piece.
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“There is news of American soldiers committing suicide after they return from their tours of duty. What is needed are heartless warriors, with a high–unlimited capacity to kill, incapable of empathy. ”
Earlier this year I read a BBC book on Auschwitz which pointed out that the gassing executions (first in trucks, then more established) were conceived partly as a way to prevent the psychological trauma of close-contact execution on the German soldiers. Reports of distress (nightmares/breakdowns/suicides etc) from the soldiers tasked to kill the civilian Jews etc led their commanders to look for ways to put ‘distance’ between executioners and their victims. Really. Out of concern for the soldiers’ mental health!
These drones (merely an improvement on the nazi bombs that buzzed over the English channel to ‘blitz’ civilian London) would have found a ready acceptance, methinks. – Peter