Teen who protested drone strikes killed in US attack

[The Northerner]

WANA (Online) – A Pakistani teenager, who recently joined a protest rally against US drone strikes, was killed in an attack by the CIA-operated spy planes in North Waziristan tribal region, a campaigner against the missile strikes said on Tuesday.

Sixteen-year-old Muhammad Tariq of North Waziristan had joined hundreds of tribesmen in the rally against drone strikes in the Pakistani capital on Friday. The protesters had called for an immediate end to the strikes, saying they killed many civilians, reported Rediff.com.

Tariq was killed with his cousin Waheed, 12, in a US drone strike on Monday night near Mirali, a key town in the restive North Waziristan tribal agency, said Karim Khan, who is leading a campaign against the missile attacks.

Khan, who belongs to Mirali, had lost his son in a drone attack last year.

Read more: http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Lahore/02-Nov-2011/Teen-who-protested-drone-strikes-killed-in-US-attack

[MedleyMisty]

1. Really adds some meaning

to that picture of people in Pakistan showing solidarity with OWS.

[wtmusic]

2. Impossible

Only militants are killed in drone strikes.

[gratuitous]

10. Exactly

And while I didn't always used to think this way, so many posters here at DU finally persuaded me that anyone luckless enough to find himself under a U.S. missile was a militant, a terrorist threat to our way of life, and deserving of summary execution. I had many difficulties to overcome in agreeing with this conclusion, notably a now-incomprehensible attachment to the Constitution and notions of due process, but I finally succeeded. I think it was the argument put forward that the decedent could have and should have turned himself in at any time to his American assassins, and that by failing to do so - whether he knew he was wanted or not, whether he might have some hesitation about turning himself over to the tender mercies of the authors of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo - he had earned his sudden death. If enough people, or the right people, say a person is very, very bad, then the missiles fly and the bad guys die. It's a very neat belief system, and I find that I no longer have those lingering doubts.

Bless the Gun, the Missile, and the Holy Mercenary, forever and ever. Amen.

[DirkGently]

16. Don't forget that while the U.S. won't comment or provide evidence, the INTERNET often proves guilt.

Once something is on the INTERNET, it is automatically sufficient justification for blowing people up.

[polly7]

3. Horrible, and so sad. n/t.

[Quantess]

4. Winning hearts and minds!

No wonder Pakistan loves the USA so much.

[newfie11]

5. more reason for people to hate America

and rightly so!

[Leopolds Ghost]

6. Was he targeted for joining the rally?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Will this glorious achievement be added to The List?

[closeupready]

8. Sad that there's not more support here for a Pakistani civilian peacenik

and meanwhile some here will go on and on about how this is perfectly okay, and killing al-Awlaki and his son are perfectly okay.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Remember a few decades back when some from the Middle East started calling the US 'The Great Satan'?

Well...

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, The Northerner.

[WinkyDink]

12. I'm sure there are official regrets.

[Ezlivin]

13. But he was breathing the SAME AIR as terrorists!

Evidence suggests that he even walked on the same ground as they did.

We can't tolerate that sort of complicity.

[closeupready]

14. Yep, there's the logic. They resembled someone who maybe could have been a terrorist,

possibly - or maybe would have thought about it one day, at some point, if conditions were right and the stars were aligned; so that's good enough, innit, dammit!...

[DirkGently]

17. And, let's face it, everyone in the Middle East is either A Terrorist, or Consorting With Terrorists

If they don't want to be randomly blown up by missiles, by the United States, they should move to the suburbs of Chicago, like all decent people.

[sabrina 1]

18. Not just in the ME. Remember when anti-war groups were

on the terror list here also. And looking at the reaction from the Corporate Police Force to peaceful protesters here, it looks like the American People are also terrorists. You would not send out the kind of force that we are seeing here if you did not view the proterters as the enemy.

Tunisians revolutionaries have left messages on the president's FB page I believe, condemning the police brutality towards American citizens and asking why he has not condemned it also.

[DirkGently]

19. Kind of makes you wonder about liberals okay with missile strikes on whomever the gov't deems

to be enemies of the state, given that liberals are a traditional target of the same brand of logic.

If they didn't want to be beaten and pepper sprayed, they shouldn't have associated themselves with those godless hippies.

[GeorgeGist]

15. Interesting that the Cheerleaders ...

are hiding their heads in shame.

[Hydra]

20. Waiting for talking points

Or maybe waiting for us to forget. I see them doing that a lot- "What Gulf Oil spill?"

[a simple pattern]

22. Beat me to it!

Maybe it's just an unsubstantiated rumor at this point, and also we never really loved Him.

[a simple pattern]

21. I don't think it's shame.

They're just waiting for talking points.

[sabrina 1]

23. Tragic. I think I read about him a while ago. Pakistan has

an active peaceful protest movement that has tried to get these drone strikes on their innocent civilians stopped for years now. They thought when Bush left office it would be over, instead it has gotten way, way worse.

These are war crimes. We are fighting wars with drones now, that's what is really going on and why they feel they can withdraw troops. And someone is making an awful lot of money from the sale of these despicable and cowardly weapons.

It is sickening and I don't know how any decent person could be involved in these tragic murders and sleep at night. .