The United States targeted 16-year-old Tariq Aziz for his political viewpoints

16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended training for his political beliefs. He was taught to use a camera to document the US crimes against his people.

He and other journalists of the enemy state... A state upon which the US Pentagon has not declared war, nor succumbed to congressional oversight or approval... Was killed extra-judicially, perhaps the greatest insult to him was that his death was not officially considered by the US Pentagon to be a part of the war, as declaring so would require the Pentagon activities to be regulated and fund-authorized by the US Congress. Instead the Pentagon tucks away his 16-year-old carcass in statistical figures that don't even appear in the UN war report.

He was murdered by the US drone he was following when his car was struck by a US Hellfire Missile. Who besides Nazi or Satan would name a missile "Hellfire" and use it to kill a 16-year-old enemy journalist outside the auspices of war?

http://codepink.org/blog/2013/01/john-brennan-vs-a-sixteen-year-old/

Former CIA analyst Medea Benjamin - Tue, Jan 8, 2013

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.
On my recent trip to Pakistan, I met with people whose loved ones had been blown to bits by drone attacks, people who have been maimed for life, young victims with no hope for the future and aching for revenge. For all of them, there has been no apology, no compensation, not even an acknowledgement of their losses. Nothing.

That’s why when John Brennan spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington DC last April and described our policies as ethical, wise and in compliance with international law, (*)I felt compelled to stand up and speak out on behalf of Tariq Aziz and so many others. As they dragged me out of the room, my parting words were: “I love the rule of law and I love my country. You are making us less safe by killing so many innocent people. Shame on you, John Brennan.”

Rather than expressing remorse for any civilian deaths, John Brennan made the extraordinary statement in 2011 that during the preceding year, there hadn’t been a single collateral death “because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities we’ve been able to develop.” Brennan later adjusted his statement somewhat, saying, “Fortunately, for more than a year, due to our discretion and precision, the U.S. government has not found credible evidence of collateral deaths resulting from U.S. counterterrorism operations outside of Afghanistan or Iraq.” We later learned why Brennan’s count was so low: the administration had come up with a semantic solution of simply counting all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants.

The UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has documented over 350 drones strikes in Pakistan that have killed 2,600-3,400 people since 2004. Drone strikes in Yemen have been on the rise, with at least 42 strikes carried out in 2012, including one just hours after President Obama’s reelection. The first strike in 2013 took place just four days into the new year.

A May 29, 2011 New York Times exposé showed John Brennan as President Obama’s top advisor in formulating a “kill list” for drone strikes. The people Brennan recommends for the hit list are given no chance to surrender, and certainly no chance to be tried in a court of law. The kind of intelligence Brennan uses to put people on drone hit lists is the same kind of intelligence that put people in Guantanamo. Remember how the American public was assured that the prisoners locked up in Guantanamo were the “worst of the worst,” only to find out that hundreds were innocent people who had been sold to the US military by bounty hunters?

In addition to kill lists, Brennan pushed for the CIA to have the authority to kill with even greater ease using “signature strikes,” also known as “crowd killing,” which are strikes based solely on suspicious behavior.

When President Obama announced his nomination of John Brennan, he talked about Brennan’s integrity and commitment to the values that define us as Americans. (*)He said Brennan has worked to “embed our efforts in a strong legal framework” and that he “understands we are a nation of laws.”

A nation of laws? Really? Going around the world killing anyone we want, whenever we want, based on secret information? Just think of the precedent John Brennan is setting for a world of lawlessness and chaos, now that 76 countries have drones—mostly surveillance drones but many in the process of weaponizing them. Why shouldn’t China declare an ethnic Uighur activist living in New York City as an “enemy combatant” and send a missile into Manhattan, or Russia launch a drone attack against a Chechen living in London? Or why shouldn’t a relative of a drone victim retaliate against us here at home? It’s not so far-fetched. In 2011, 26-year-old Rezwan Ferdaus, a Massachusetts-based graduate with a degree in physics, was recently sentenced to 17 years in prison for plotting to attack the Pentagon and US Capitol with small drones filled with explosives.

In his search for a new CIA chief, Obama said he looked at who is going to do the best job in securing America. Yet the blowback from Brennan’s drone attacks is creating enemies far faster than we can kill them. Three out of four Pakistanis now see the US as their enemy—that’s about 133 million people, which certainly can’t be good for US security. When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked the source of US enmity, she had a one word answer: drones.

In Yemen, escalating U.S. drones strikes are radicalizing the local population and stirring increasing sympathy for al-Qaeda-linked militants. Since the January 4, 2013 attack in Yemen, militants in the tribal areas have gained more recruits and supporters in their war against the Yemeni government and its key backer, the United States. According to Abduh Rahman Berman, executive director of a Yemeni National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms, the drone war is failing. “If the Americans kill 10, al-Qaeda will recruit 100,” he said.

Around the world, the drone program constructed by John Brennan has become a provocative symbol of American hubris, showing contempt for national sovereignty and innocent lives.

If Obama thinks John Brennan is a good choice to head the CIA and secure America, he should contemplate the tragic deaths of victims like 16-year-old Tariq Aziz.

 

Stopped reading there

 

You don't believe a former CIA analyst has any credibility? This is one of the videos you simply must watch to develop a realization of the Nazi state you live in. You are too afraid to even look at the truth.

Listen to what the female former analyst has to say:

[video=youtube;w1-ilByJROU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1-ilByJROU&feature=youtube_gdata_tracker[/video]

 

Code Pink is a lunatic fringe group so I do not consider them a credible source on anything.

 

Like being a boy named Sue.

 

Give me the truth told by a frog and I will still acknowledge it as truth.

 

During the senate confirmation hearing, the chief senator of the Intelligence Committee asked for a list of all the countries being attacked by US drones and he was denied.

 

Funny, Medea Benjamin's bio on Wikipedia doesn't say anything about her being a 'CIA analyst'.

 

Look out Vlad, there's a drone coming for you !

 

Are you (*)(*)(*)(*)ing kidding me. (1) Medea is not her real name. (2) She's been stationed in Venezuela, Nigeria, and Cuba. (3) She's travelled intermittently to Virginia and Washington DC.

She is a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing ex-CIA Analysis in a similar class as Ray McGovern. They are friends and occasional contacts.

 

You will have drones flying over your head long before I will have drones flying over my head.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_Benjamin

 

She used to be a nutritionist. Marshal just made up the bit about her being former CIA.

 

What are we talking about here?

A 16-year-old with absolutely no reported ties to 9/11 was killed outside of a Congressionally mandated war-zone while the war authorization clearly says to go after those responsible for 9/11.

If US Drones were flying over my city I can only imagine good peoples' interest following them in a car filming to. It's shockingly awful to know the US would kill them as a 9/11 terrorist simply for filming and documenting their drones killing innocent people.

Where is the accountability in Washington there is absolutely none. What about the children with firewood killed? How many more innocent people need to die until they will understand they're creating terrorism by their behaviour and the good people of the earth are suffering from their abject evil.

 

Americans are becoming so desensitized to government behaviour in 50 years the US Government will be abducting and torturing people on American soil and it will be thought of as commonplace.

 

In Obama's first term, he and his administration proudly touted its terrorist kill list as a means of keeping the country safe. Holder struggled to avoid saying Obama does not have the right to kill Americans in America with his Drones. Obama is a man of hate, he travels America pitting people one against another.
At the moment, Dept. of Homeland Security is ordering that drones be adapted to detect a gun carrying citizen at the same tome it is purchasing souped-up armored vehicles typically found on the battlefield. One report estimates that by 2020, there will be 30,000 drones flying in American airspace.All these weapons being stored in America why?? In order to strike out against whom,exactly?

Obama said; We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.

No media lacky or Republican Liberal ask Obama to explain this arming of the federal govt. on our homeland. Could the Obama homeland army be the OWS THUGS or his former employer ACORN street thugs all in uniform,Wearing *YES WE CAN* battle fatigues???-to confiscate all Guns from peaceful American citizens.**

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In Obama's first term, he and his administration proudly touted its terrorist kill list as a means of keeping the country safe. Holder struggled to avoid saying Obama does not have the right to kill Americans in America with his Drones. Obama is a man of hate, he travels America pitting people one against another.
At the moment, Dept. of Homeland Security is ordering that drones be adapted to detect a gun carrying citizen at the same tome it is purchasing souped-up armored vehicles typically found on the battlefield. One report estimates that by 2020, there will be 30,000 drones flying in American airspace.All these weapons being stored in America why?? In order to strike out against whom,exactly?

Obama said; We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.

No media lacky or Republican Liberal ask Obama to explain this arming of the federal govt. on our homeland. Could the Obama homeland army be the OWS THUGS or his former employer ACORN street thugs all in uniform,Wearing *YES WE CAN* battle fatigues???-to confiscate all Guns from peaceful American citizens.**

 

The US Government is for and by corporations. Keeping the real people safe is necessary only to the extent they are needed as slave labour for the corporate elite or military complex.

Suggestive proof of this resides in the fact that the US Government cuts services for real people with preference over cutting services for itself. Same too does the US Pentagon sacrifice the safety of the real people, in exchange for the safety of US hegemony and the safety of the Pentagon war machine itself.

The only America in the eyes of the US Government is the US Government itself. As the population becomes more and more third-world the rich elite will celebrate amongst themselves about the slave labour while simultaneously holding contempt and easy disregard for the US people.

The US Police State will be the US State and all who are not a part of it will be under it. 50% probability.

 

We're all potential drone strike targets, today, if you oppose Comrade Barack, that is. Although bullets are a d@mn sight cheaper than a Hellfire Missile, and DHS has practically cornered the market on bullets. Interestingly enough DHS is getting new uniforms in spite of the sequester, in the meantime public visitation at the WhiteHouse has been cancelled. Hitlers SS Troopers (The Death's Head boys) always had the finest of everything, too, uniforms, tanks, rifles. Something to think about in your spare time.

Barack Obama is afflicted with an extremely serious case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The last two world leaders suffering from that same personality defect were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. They produced a lot of dead people between them.