Thread: Pax Americana

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The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha incident or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. All those killed were civilians. The dead included several children and elderly people, who were shot multiple times at close range while unarmed. It has been alleged that the killings were retribution for the attack on a convoy of Marines with an improvised explosive device that killed Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas. Many news reports have compared the incident to the My Lai massacre

Haditha killings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly circling over his Pakistani village, terrorizing and killing his family and neighbors. Two days later, when Aziz was driving with his 12-year-old cousin to a village near his home in Waziristan to pick up his aunt, his car was struck by a Hellfire missile. With the push of a button by a pilot at a US base thousands of miles away, both boys were instantly vaporized—only a few chunks of flesh remained.

Afterwards, the US government refused to acknowledge the boys’ deaths or explain why they were targeted. Why should they? This is a covert program where no one is held accountable for their actions.

The main architect of this drone policy that has killed hundreds, if not thousands, of innocents, including 176 children in Pakistan alone, is President Obama’s counterterrorism chief and his pick for the next director of the CIA: John Brennan.

Czar of the Drones » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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In this film, which is largely shot and depicted not as a dramatization, but as a documentary, it is shown that a key informant - the one who ultimately reveals the importance and the identity of the courier who led U.S. Forces to Bin Laden's hideaway - only divulges that information as a result of being tortured and a threat of torture.

But that didn't happen.

Daily Kos: Zero Dark Thirty is War Crime Propaganda#

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The FISA Amendments Act has been approved for another five years, as the Senate voted to renew the law that grants the government wide surveillance authority. President Obama has said he intends to sign the measure, which senators approved by a 73-23 margin Friday morning. It had already won approval in the House.

Update at 6:10 p.m. Dec. 31: Obama signs FISA extension.

President And Congress Extend FISA Wiretapping Act To 2017 [Updated] : The Two-Way : NPR

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OBAMA APPOINTS DR. DRONE TO HEAD C.I.A.

Obama Appoints Dr. Drone to Head CIA | Common Dreams