today we finally have confirmation of the united states government has in fact
killed four u_s_ citizens
withdraw it acts
now they
you know once in a letter that they said the congress
quote according to the new york times formally knowledge that the united
states had killed four american citizens
indro strikes in yemen and pakistan
now
this is of course a day before president obama's have to give a speech on
national security
so they can only get this out of the way are by the way not a big deal but we
have nikhil four u_s_ citizens
let's move on
now one of them they say may deliberately killing babies a quote
deliberately killed anwar all a locking
that he was the propagandist for
allocated the radiant and it's a long we believe
well but they say that he was actually directly involved with some of the tax
including the attempted
christmas day bomber
uh... who of course have the
bombers underwear look we did not go off and they say that he was also involved
in
in their planning and execution of a twenty ten attack i_d_c_ hillary brought
to justice or to court pitcher dictate that because he's already dead but the
government assures us quote
the decision to target on world la ke was lawful
it was considered
and it was just
uh... supports what they always say
again
weather was lawful is not determined by any court of law is just turning joe
eric holder
and the people in the white house we decided that it was lawful
and normally u_s_ citizens get trials now understandably he wasn't
a foreign country and it was a little hard to apprehend them we understand
that
so what do you agree with with their arora war all a lot ki
hi killing is an altman question and some do and some don't
but remember there are three others who were killed let's show you who they are
samir khan
was killed in the same attack that killed all a locking
and then a different intact
barbara monologue he was a sixteen year old son
of anwar all lucky
was also killed
and so was of course u_s_ citizen that and really not widely been ignored by
the u_s_ government previously
and now i mean i know it's any of these but it was pretty clear that they had
done the first three
now we find that you'd muhammad also u_s_ citizen of from north carolina also
killed
the other three were in yemen should mohammed was in pakistan
now how about the other three that were not on worldwide to other norman says
quote
these individuals
were not specifically targeted by the united states
i find that to be the most interesting part of the story
so whether you think we should go after
certain targets and by late this summer devote countries isn't interesting
question
whether you trust the government that they've got the right u_s_ is in that
they're killing like on world lockheed that you trust that he was a
terrorists who was in the middle of executing plots against the united
states that's of second question but to me
the most important question is
do we know who were killing
and here's a nice is governor nato by the way loops
we killed three u_s_ citizens
by accident
barely talking to one of them
the other three
now severe palace for the same strike onto a u_s_ citizen guy killed along
with him
well i guess if you live in a row with you
i know a lot of people say that it's not a very good legal argument
okay and you would like it was someone you knew right
now the other two was a sixteen-year-old separate strike
boots
u_s_'s unfilled sorry
didn't mean it
to behind that
john knows why he was killed god knows who the bob was intended for
so and we don't know whether american people were small so this is our
government are so-called democracy
he's actions by the way it turns out they were wrong
seventy five percent of the time
where all the things bother clown strikes all men will always write about
those
when i was not brining comically said
that no civilians were killed
in any of these rooms tracks
are many we got these smart weapons and they are right at least a quarter of the
time
now if you happen to be in the vicinity a new word guilty well sad day for you
we killed anyway
now that's a bit bascay scenario where were actually targeted so will we know
like none or all lucky
but reducing interest rates where we carry people
we have no idea who they are below
whose were not targeting an individual
we're seeing some activity below we don't like whether it's somebody holding
a weapon again all of texas would be executed under the standard
uh... and we just drop a bomb in the all look at that old u_s_ citizen
now up
that is not a very good standard by which to conduct
operations
in what is now a so-called democracy
was the first time american people are actually finding out that we have to
four u_s_ citizens without a trial
without any judicial process without any due process and by the way
three of the four accidents