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      <title>Obama Surrenders Just As Islamic Jihad Intensifies</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:57:06 -0400</pubDate>
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Posted 07:10 PM ET
 War On Terror:  As jihadists bomb Boston, behead a soldier in London and firebomb police in Sweden, President Obama has decided America's actions have offended them and it's time to retreat.

In arguably the weakest national security speech by a commander in chief, Obama denied Thursday that our terrorist enemy is inspired by Islam - while at the same time appeasing Islamic critics by apologizing for drone strikes and agreeing to throttle back on such precision bombings, and close down the terrorist prison at Guantanamo.

He vowed to wind down further military actions in the war on terror, arguing he can protect America through law enforcement actions, instead, as if the threat comes from bank robbers or other common criminals.

His mea culpas and capitulations will only embolden the Islamist enemy. In case you missed the interminably long and rambling speech, here are some of its many pusillanimous lowlights:

o &quot;Force alone cannot make us safe. We cannot use force everywhere that a radical ideology takes root; and in the absence of a strategy that reduces the wellspring of extremism, a perpetual war - through drones or Special Forces or troop deployments - will prove self-defeating.&quot;

o &quot;So the next element of our strategy involves addressing the underlying grievances and conflicts that feed extremism.&quot;

o &quot;In Iraq and Afghanistan ... thousands of civilians have been killed.&quot;

o &quot;Much of the criticism about drone strikes understandably centers on reports of civilian casualties ... It is a hard fact that U.S. strikes have resulted in civilian casualties. And for the families of those civilians, no words or legal construct can justify their loss ... those deaths will haunt us as long as we live, just as we are haunted by the civilian casualties that have occurred throughout conventional fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.&quot;

o &quot;By the end of 2014, we will no longer have the same need for force protection (in the Afghanistan theater), and the progress we've made against core al-Qaida will reduce the need for unmanned strikes.&quot;

o &quot;America does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists; our preference is always to detain, interrogate and prosecute.&quot;

o &quot;America does not take (drone) strikes to punish individuals&quot; for past terrorist acts; &quot;we act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the American people.&quot;

o &quot;Targeted action against terrorists, effective partnerships, diplomatic engagement and assistance - through such a comprehensive strategy we can significantly reduce the chances of large-scale attacks on the homeland.&quot;

o &quot;It is false to assert that putting boots on the ground is less likely to result in civilian deaths or less likely to create enemies in the Muslim world.&quot;

o &quot;By narrowly targeting our action against those who want to kill us and not the people they hide among, we are choosing the course of action least likely to result in the loss of innocent life.&quot;

o &quot;For what we spent in a month in Iraq at the height of the war, we could be ... feeding the hungry in Yemen, building schools in Pakistan, and creating reservoirs of goodwill that marginalize extremists. That has to be part of our strategy.&quot;

o &quot;And the best way to prevent violent extremism inspired by violent jihadists is to work with the Muslim American community - which has consistently rejected terrorism.&quot;

o &quot;Even after Boston - we do not deport someone or throw somebody in prison in the absence of evidence.&quot;

o &quot;Gitmo has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law.&quot;

&quot;This war must end.&quot;

Not 48 hours before he uttered those final words, an al-Qaida-inspired jihadist who decapitated a war veteran in the streets of London vowed to keep up the attacks on the West.

&quot;We swear by almighty Allah that we will never stop fighting you,&quot; said the 29-year-old alleged murdering British Muslim, blood dripping from his butcher's knife. &quot;You will never be safe.&quot;

If this president has his way, he may be right.



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      <title>Lessons To Learn From Woolwich</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:27:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The lessons to learn from the Woolwich killing are obvious: but not to David Cameron	 
	







Any rational balance sheet of the last decade would
 show that the 'war on terror' has been a failure in its own terms: it 
has not prevented terrorism but caused it to spread.By  Lindsey German 
 Stop the War Coalition
23 May 2013




The attack in Woolwich yesterday was horrific. There can be no 
justification for a murderous attack on an individual soldier in the 
streets of London. It must have been awful too for the local people who 
witnessed it.
Unlike with most terrorist attacks or indeed other crimes, we have 
been able to see film footage of the perpetrators, hear testimony from 
the witnesses who saw or talked to them. So we know what these men say 
motivated them. They claimed that the killing of the soldier was in 
response to the killing of Muslims by British soldiers in other 
countries. One said that the government did not care for people and 
should get the troops out.
The Boston bombers last month were supposedly similarly motivated. 
The Woolwich attack, carried out by two men now shot and wounded and 
under arrest in hospital, appears to represent a phenomenon that was 
pointed out nearly a decade ago by the security services in Britain: 
that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would lead to a growing threat of 
terrorism in Britain. Those of us in Stop the War have long predicted 
that these sorts of attacks would happen because of the war on terror.
Unfortunately there is little sign that the government, media and 
military will draw any of the conclusions that they should from the 
attack. The instant response was to brand it as a serious terrorist 
attack, although already many commentators are saying they believe it 
more likely that this was a one off and isolated incident, and unlikely 
to be part of a wider conspiracy. David Cameron cut short a visit to 
Paris in order to fly home.
This reaction is one which manifestly fails to deal with the 
political causes underlying such attacks. The simple truth is that there
 were no such cases in Britain before the start of the 'war on terror' 
in 2001, which led to the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and 
Iraq. The consequences of those wars have been devastating for the 
people of those countries and further afield. Up to a million died in 
Iraq and 4 million were made refugees. Tens of thousands have died in 
Afghanistan. Fighting still continues and in Iraq looks like descending 
into civil war in some parts of the country.
The US and its allies have been involved in bombing attacks on these 
countries which have been responsible for many thousands of deaths. 

 A media comment that this was the day Baghdad came to the streets of 
Britain shows a grotesque ignorance of the country the invasion was 
meant to rescue for democracy, where daily sectarian bombings and 
killings are escalating on a scale not dreamt of in this country.
The interventions have spread in the name of 'fighting terrorism': 
drone attacks are taking place in a number of countries including 
Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The bombing of Libya by the west in 2011 
led to at least 30,000 dead. British troops are aiding the French in 
Mali. The British are intervening in the war in Syria for their own 
ends, and want to lift the EU arms embargo there in order to escalate 
the war and achieve regime change. The US and EU continues to back 
Israel despite its treatment of the Palestinians, even sending the 
architect of the Iraq war, Tony Blair, as envoy for peace in the Middle 
East.
Any rational balance sheet of the last decade and more would 
demonstrate that the war on terror has been a failure in its own terms. 
It has not prevented terrorism but caused it to spread.
The failure of politicians and military to face up to this has 
further damaging consequences: if the government refuses to change its 
own policy it has one simple solution -- 'blame the Muslims'. Muslims 
are expected to condemn any such attack whereas no such demand is put 
upon people of other faiths when a killing is carried out by Christians.
 Muslim is also equated with black or Asian, as when one television 
reporter described the men as of 'Muslim appearance'.
Again, atrocities by white gun men, in Norway and the US for example,
 which are often highly politically motivated, are not regarded as 
needing to be defined by race. They are also rarely described as 
terrorism, but as the acts of fanatics or madmen.
It is an integral part of the war on terror that the invasion and 
occupation of mainly Muslim countries abroad has to lead to the 
dehumanising of the victims of the wars: so Muslim comes to equal 
extremist and terrorist. Racists like the EDL turned up in Woolwich to 
try to further foster Islamophobia. But this treatment of Muslims goes 
to the top of government and is spewed out daily in the press.
 
 
Similar views of the Irish were much more common in the 1970s and 80s 
when the IRA had a major bombing campaign in Britain. In the end there 
had to be a political solution which recognised genuine grievance.
In the end there has to be a political solution to terrorism. But it 
can only start with recognition of the disastrous effect of western 
foreign policy in the Middle East and South Asia for decades now, 
exacerbated by the consequences of 12 years of wars. That means 
acknowledging that those of us who said these wars were not the answer 
and would make things worse were absolutely right.</description>
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      <title> Obama &amp;amp;  More Revelations Of The Press Crackdown !</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:07:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>More revelations of Justice Department crackdown on the press
  
      By
      Ed Hightower
      

      24 May 2013
  
  


  
  
  
  According to a report Tuesday in the  New Yorker , the Obama
 administration's investigation into a State Department leak to James 
Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent of Fox News, extends well 
beyond what was originally thought and includes seizing the phone 
records of the reporter's parents and dozens of other individuals, 
including White House staffers and other Fox News reporters.
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald C. Machen,
 Jr., the prosecutor in the case of alleged leaker and former State 
Department weapons expert Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, has seized records 
associated with more than 30 different phone numbers.
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 the last four digits of all of the phone numbers have been redacted by 
court order, only the three-digit area codes and exchange codes are 
available. Five of these numbers have area codes and exchange codes 
registered to Fox News. Two of the numbers have area code 202 and 
exchange code 456, which belong to the White House, whose switchboard 
number is (202) 456-1414.
The US attorney also seized records which correspond to James Rosen's
 personal cellular phone, and another set of records which may be from a
 number registered to  Time  magazine.
These revelations come to light after the  Washington Post  
reported Monday that FBI agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in 
support of a warrant request alleging that Rosen himself engaged in 
criminal activity in receiving classified information from Kim about 
North Korea. A judge granted the search warrant, and the Justice 
Department seized Rosen's personal emails and phone records and tracked 
his movements.
Rosen was never charged with any crime, while Kim faces a possible 
10-year prison term under the reactionary Espionage Act of 1917. Kim has
 filed a plea of not guilty.
The  New Yorker  report relied on a discovery document, in 
this case, a list of attached electronic documents related to the 
prosecution of Kim, filed in court on October 13, 2011. The document is a
 letter from US Attorney Machen to the attorneys defending Kim. It makes
 reference to 2,111 pages of unclassified information subpoenaed in the 
investigation, including several sets of bank and credit union records, 
several sets of Yahoo! Email records and one set of Gmail email 
records-the latter appearing to belong to Rosen-, IP address records and
 wireless phone records.
Also listed is surveillance video from the American Red Cross, other 
surveillance video and security badge information from Kim and media 
personnel, apparently including Rosen, though his name is not specified.
 The letter indicates that much more documentation of subpoenaed 
information, including classified information, will be forthcoming in 
the case.
The latest report reveals that the investigation into Kim's supposed 
leak was even broader than was initially thought, and this too comes on 
top of last week's reports that the DoJ seized phone records for some 21
 phone lines registered to the Associated Press in an investigation of a
 leak of information on US intelligence operations in Yemen.
Last Tuesday, the director and legal defense directors of the 
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press issued a protest letter to 
Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy Attorney General and copied 
Machen. The letter denounced the subpoena of AP phone records as being 
overly broad, secretive and illegal. Some 52 press organizations 
endorsed the letter, including CNN, Dow Jones and Company, Forbes Inc., 
The New York Times Company and Reuters America LLC.
The Department of Justice is engaged in at least two other leak 
investigations at present. One involves the leak of information to the  New York Times 
 about the infamous &quot;Kill Lists&quot; of targets for drone assassination 
reviewed by president Obama. The other concerns an attempt by the United
 States and Israel to infect the computer systems of Iranian nuclear 
facilities with the Stuxnet worm, information which was also leaked to 
the  Times . The administration has indicted six current and 
former officials under the Espionage Act of 1917, more than all previous
 administrations combined.
While denunciations of Obama and the Department of Justice abound in 
editorials and blogs from news sources all over the political spectrum, 
the hostility they express to the president's attack on the free press 
is by no means universally held.
Several commentators have come out in defense of &quot;plugging leaks&quot; by virtually any means.


Jack Shafer, writing an opinion column for  Reuters , makes 
the case that perhaps Eric Holder was right, and the leak for which AP 
phone records were subpoenaed could really have been &quot;very, very 
serious.&quot;
Shafer wrote last Tuesday:


&quot;Journalists gasp and growl whenever prosecutors issue lawful 
subpoenas ordering them to divulge their confidential sources or to turn
 over potential evidence, such as notes, video outtakes or other 
records.  It's an attack on the First Amendment, It's an attack on the First Amendment, It's an attack on the First Amendment,  journalists and their lawyers chant.&quot;
The  Washington Post 's veteran national security writer, 
former CIA informant Walter Pincus, went so far as to state that whoever
 leaked the information around the AP story &quot;not only broke the law but 
caused the abrupt end to a secret, joint U.S./Saudi/British operation in
 Yemen that offered valuable intelligence against al-Qaeda in the 
Arabian Peninsula.&quot;
He says later, &quot;It was inevitable that the leak to the AP would 
generate an FBI probe. Given past leak investigations in the Bush and 
Obama administrations, journalists at the AP and elsewhere know they 
could face scrutiny.  Like it or not, they are part of a crime.  The leaker or leakers had taken an oath under the threat of prosecution to protect the information.&quot; (Italics added)
Most significantly, the  New York Times  on Monday lent space 
in its pages to a statement by three former Department of Justice 
officials: Jamie Gorelick, deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton; 
William P. Barr, attorney general from 1991 to 1993; and Kenneth L. 
Wainstain, assistant attorney general for national security from 2006 to
 2008. The statement, titled &quot;Stop the Leaks,&quot; made a crude and legally 
untenable case for the actions of the Justice Department.
&quot;As former Justice Department officials who served in the three 
administrations preceding President Obama's, we are worried that the 
criticism of the decision to subpoena telephone toll records of A.P. 
journalists in an important leak investigation sends the wrong message 
to the government officials who are responsible for our national 
security.&quot;
Apologizing for the Obama administration's gross violations of the First Amendment, the authors continue:


&quot;But after eight months of intensive effort, it appears that they 
still could not identify the leaker. It was only then-after pursuing 
'all reasonable alternative investigative steps,' as required by the 
department's regulations-that investigators proposed obtaining telephone
 toll records (logs of calls made and received) for about 20 phone lines
 that the leaker might have used in conversations with A.P. journalists.
 They limited the request to the two months when the leak most likely 
occurred, and did not propose more intrusive investigative steps.&quot;
The authors do not address the requirement that the DoJ must first ask for the records in question from the media outlet itself  before 
 issuing a subpoena. They presume that the unsubstantiated assertion by 
attorney general Holder that asking for the records would have 
jeopardized the investigation: i.e., evidence would have been destroyed.
The letter is significant in its expression of a consensus within the
 ruling class that the methods of suppressing any leaks are beyond 
reproach. Journalists who would communicate leaks should likewise be 
prosecuted, if necessary to protect national security.</description>
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      <title>War against terrorism must end, Barack Obama says</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 07:54:36 -0400</pubDate>
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America's perpetual war against terrorism since September 11th must come to an end, President Barack Obama said today as he announced new restrictions on drone strikes and a fresh effort to close the Guant'anamo Bay prison camp.By Raf Sanchez, Washington

8:09PM BST 23 May 2013




In a major speech to military and political leaders,   Mr Obama   said the   US  could not wage &quot;a boundless global war on terror&quot; but must face a new reality where threats come from regional jihadists and home-grown extremists.

&quot;Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organisations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end,&quot; Mr Obama said. &quot;That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands.&quot;

As he announced the most significant shift in US counter-terrorism since the fall of the World Trade Centre, Mr Obama said he would restrict his own signature policy of ordering drone strikes around the world.

Although insisting that the targeted killing programme was legal and effective, the President said the US must also exercise &quot;the discipline to constrain that power - or risk abusing it&quot;.

Under a new directive signed this week drone strikes would be limited only to those cases where the target represented a &quot;continuing and imminent threat&quot; to the US. He also insisted on &quot;near certainty&quot; that no civilians would be killed before authorising strikes, saying for him and his commanders the deaths of innocents would &quot;haunt us as long as we live&quot;.

While the rate of strikes has fallen sharply in Mr Obama's second term, he has already ordered more than 350 attacks compared to only around 50 under his predecessor George W Bush.

Mr Obama declared himself open to the idea of a special court or independent body tasked with reviewing the legality of each strike, although he offered no specifics of how this would work.

Under the directive, the US must show it has exhausted all option for capturing the terrorists before launching a strike but Mr Obama cautioned that special operations raids like the one against Osama bin Laden &quot;cannot be the norm&quot;.

The administration's tendency to kill rather than capture has led to criticism it is failing to extract valuable intelligence from targets.

In a significant shift, the US military will now take the lead on drones rather than the more secretive CIA. The military would be the key authority in both the active theatre of war in Afghanistan and more legally complex areas like tribal Pakistan.

Mr Obama once again called for Congress to allow him to fulfil his 2009 promise to close the controversial prison camp at Guant'anamo Bay, which he said had &quot;become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law&quot;.

He was repeatedly heckled by Medea Benjamin, an activist with the progressive group Code Pink, who called for the immediate closure of Guant'anamo and said &quot;drones are making us less safe&quot;.






&quot;The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to,&quot; Mr Obama said. &quot;These are tough issues and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong.&quot;

Of the 166 men still being detained at the facility in Cuba, 86 are currently slated for release, including more than 50 from Yemen.

Mr Obama said he would restart transferring cleared detainees to Yemen, a process halted in early 2010, and that he would appoint two senior officials &quot;whose sole responsibility will be to achieve the transfer of detainees to third countries&quot;.

He emphasised the enormous cost of running the prison site pointing out that the US spends nearly $800,000 per detainee - or 30 times more than it would cost to imprison them on the mainland.

Pointing to the current hunger strike at Guant'anamo, where dozens of detainees are being force fed through tubes, Mr Obama asked: &quot;Is that who we are? Is that something that our Founders foresaw? Is that the America we want to leave to our children?&quot;

He also addressed the recent controversy of government investigators monitoring reporters' phone records saying he was &quot;troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable&quot;.

His speech came   a day after the US confirmed for the first time it had killed four Americans in drone strikes   in Yemen and Pakistan, but said only one - Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born al-Qaeda cleric - had been deliberately targeted.

Aides said Mr Obama, a former constitutional law professor who ran on a civil liberties platform in 2008, had been looking forward to giving the speech and had been working on the text for months.

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      <title>Was the London killing of a British soldier 'terrorism'?</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 20:05:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/23/woolwich-attack-terrorism-blowback 
Two men yesterday engaged in  a horrific act of violence  on the streets of London by using what appeared to be a meat cleaver to hack to death a British soldier. In the wake of claims that the assailants shouted &quot;Allahu Akbar&quot; during the killing, and  a video showing one of the assailants citing Islam as well as a desire to avenge and stop continuous UK violence against Muslims, media outlets ( including the Guardian ) and  British politicians  instantly characterized the attack as &quot;terrorism&quot;.

That this was a barbaric and horrendous act goes without saying, but given the legal, military, cultural and political significance of the term &quot;terrorism&quot;, it is vital to ask: is that term really applicable to this act of violence? To begin with, in order for an act of violence to be &quot;terrorism&quot;, many argue that it must deliberately target civilians. That's the most common means used by those who try to distinguish the violence engaged in by western nations from that used by the &quot;terrorists&quot;:  sure, we kill civilians sometimes, but we don't deliberately target them the way the &quot;terrorists&quot; do .

But here, just as was true for  Nidal Hasan's attack on a Fort Hood military base , the victim of the violence was a soldier of a nation at war, not a civilian. He was stationed at an army barracks quite close to the attack. The killer made clear that he knew he had attacked a soldier when he said afterward: &quot;this British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.&quot;

The US, the UK and its allies have repeatedly killed Muslim civilians over the past decade (and before that), but defenders of those governments insist that this cannot be &quot;terrorism&quot; because it is combatants, not civilians, who are the targets. Can it really be the case that when western nations continuously kill Muslim civilians, that's not &quot;terrorism&quot;, but when Muslims kill western  soldiers , that is terrorism? Amazingly, the US has even imprisoned people at Guantanamo and elsewhere on accusations of &quot;terrorism&quot; who are  accused of nothing more than engaging in violence   against US soldiers who  invaded their country  .

It's true that the soldier who was killed yesterday was out of uniform and not engaged in combat at the time he was attacked. But the same is true for the vast bulk of killings carried out by the US and its allies over the last decade, where people are killed in their homes, in their cars, at work, while asleep (in fact, the US  has re-defined &quot;militant&quot;  to mean &quot;any military-aged male in a strike zone&quot;). Indeed, at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on drone killings, Gen. James Cartwright and Sen. Lindsey Graham  both agreed  that the US has the right to kill its enemies even while they are &quot;asleep&quot;, that you don't &quot;have to wake them up before you shoot them&quot; and &quot;make it a fair fight&quot;. Once you declare that the &quot;entire globe is a battlefield&quot; (which includes London) and that any &quot;combatant&quot; (defined as broadly as possible) is fair game to be killed - as  the US has done  - then how can the killing of a solider of a nation engaged in that war, horrific though it is, possibly be &quot;terrorism&quot;?

When I  asked on Twitter this morning  what specific attributes of this attack make it &quot;terrorism&quot; given that it was a soldier who was killed, the most frequent answer I received was that &quot;terrorism&quot; means any act of violence designed to achieve political change, or more specifically, to induce a civilian population to change their government or its policies of out fear of violence. Because, this line of reasoning went, one of the attackers here said that &quot;the only reasons we killed this man is because Muslims are dying daily&quot; and warned that &quot;you people will never be safe. Remove your government&quot;, the intent of the violence was to induce political change, thus making it &quot;terrorism&quot;.

That is at least a coherent definition. But doesn't that then encompass the vast majority of violent acts undertaken by the US and its allies over the last decade? What was the US/UK &quot;shock and awe&quot; attack on Baghdad if not a campaign to intimidate the population with a massive show of violence into submitting to the invading armies and ceasing their support for Saddam's regime? That was clearly its  functional intent and even its stated intent . That definition would also immediately include the massive air bombings of German cities during World War II. It would include the  Central American civilian-slaughtering militias  supported, funded and armed by the Reagan administration throughout the 1980s, the  Bangledeshi death squads trained and funded by the UK , and countless other groups supported by the west that used violence against civilians to achieve political ends.

The ongoing US drone attacks  unquestionably  have the effect, and one could  reasonably argue the intent , of terrorizing the local populations so that they cease harboring or supporting those the west deems to be enemies. The brutal sanctions regime imposed by the west on Iraq and Iran, which kills large numbers of people, clearly has the intent of terrorizing the population into changing its governments' policies and even the government itself. How can one create a definition of &quot;terrorism&quot; that includes Wednesday's London attack on this British soldier without including many acts of violence undertaken by the US, the UK and its allies and partners? Can that be done?

I know this vital caveat will fall on deaf ears for some, but nothing about this discussion has anything to do with justifiability. An act can be vile, evil, and devoid of justification without being &quot;terrorism&quot;: indeed, most of the worst atrocities of the 20th Century, from the Holocaust to the wanton slaughter of Stalin and Pol Pot and the massive destruction of human life in Vietnam, are not typically described as &quot;terrorism&quot;. To question whether something qualifies as &quot;terrorism&quot; is not remotely to justify or even mitigate it. That should go without saying, though I know it doesn't.

The reason it's so crucial to ask this question is that there are few terms - if there are any - that pack the political, cultural and emotional punch that &quot;terrorism&quot; provides. When it comes to the actions of western governments, it is a conversation-stopper, justifying virtually anything those governments want to do. It's a term that is used to start wars, engage in sustained military action, send people to prison for decades or life, to target suspects for due-process-free execution, shield government actions behind a wall of secrecy, and instantly shape public perceptions around the world. It matters what the definition of the term is, or whether there is a consistent and coherent definition. It matters a great deal.

There is ample scholarship proving that the term has no such clear or consistently applied meaning (see the penultimate section here , and my interview with Remi Brulin  here ). It is very hard to escape the conclusion that, operationally, the term has no real definition at this point beyond &quot;violence engaged in by Muslims in retaliation against western violence toward Muslims&quot;. When media reports yesterday began saying that &quot;there are indications that this may be act of terror&quot;, it seems clear that what was really meant was: &quot;there are indications that the perpetrators were Muslims driven by political grievances against the west&quot; (earlier this month, an elderly British Muslim was  stabbed to death in an apparent anti-Muslim hate crime  and nobody called that &quot;terrorism&quot;). Put another way, the term at this point seems to have no function other than propagandistically and legally legitimizing the violence of western states against Muslims while delegitimizing any and all violence done in return to those states.

One last point: in the wake of the Boston Marathon attacks, I  documented  that the perpetrators of virtually every recent attempted and successful &quot;terrorist&quot; attack against the west cited as their motive the continuous violence by western states against Muslim civilians. It's certainly true that Islam plays an important role in making these individuals willing to fight and die for this perceived just cause (just as  Christianity ,  Judaism ,  Buddhism , and  nationalism  lead some people to be willing to fight and die for their cause). But the proximate cause of these attacks are plainly political grievances: namely, the belief that engaging in violence against aggressive western nations is the only way to deter and/or avenge western violence that kills Muslim civilians.

Add the London knife attack on this soldier to that growing list. One of the perpetrators said on camera that &quot;the only reason we killed this man is because Muslims are dying daily&quot; and &quot;we apologize that women had to see this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same.&quot; As I've endlessly pointed out, highlighting this causation doesn't remotely justify the acts. But it should make it anything other than surprising. On Twitter last night, Michael Moore  sardonically summarized western reaction to the London killing  this way:

I am outraged that we can't kill people in other counties without them trying to kill us!&quot;


Basic human nature simply does not allow you to cheer on your government as it carries out massive violence in multiple countries around the world and then have you be completely immune from having that violence returned.

Drone admissionsIn not unrelated news, the US government  yesterday admitted  for the first time what everyone has long known: that it killed four Muslim American citizens with drones during the Obama presidency, including a US-born teenager whom everyone acknowledges was guilty of nothing. As Jeremy Scahill - whose soon-to-be-released film &quot;Dirty Wars&quot; examines US covert killings aimed at Muslims -  noted yesterday about this admission , it &quot;leaves totally unexplained why the United States has killed so many innocent non-American citizens in its strikes in Pakistan and Yemen&quot;. Related to all of these issues, please watch this two-minute trailer for &quot;Dirty Wars&quot;, which I reviewed a few weeks ago  here :

NoteThe headline briefly referred to the attack as a &quot;machete killing&quot;, which is how initial reports described it, but the word &quot;machete&quot; was deleted to reflect uncertainty over the exact type of knife use. As the first paragraph now indicates, the weapon appeared to be some sort of meat cleaver.

UPDATEIn the Guardian today, former British soldier Joe Glenton, who served in the war in Afghanistan,  writes under the headline &quot;Woolwich attack: of course British foreign policy had a role&quot;. He explains:

&quot;While nothing can justify the savage killing in Woolwich yesterday of a man since confirmed to have been a serving British soldier, it should not be hard to explain why the murder happened. . . . It should by now be self-evident that by attacking Muslims overseas, you will occasionally spawn twisted and, as we saw yesterday, even murderous hatred at home. We need to recognise that, given the continued role our government has chosen to play in the US imperial project in the Middle East, we are lucky that these attacks are so few and far between.&quot;

This is one of those points so glaringly obvious that it is difficult to believe that it has to be repeated.</description>
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      <title>Obama Scandal list... update May 2013</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:26:42 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>1. Reneged on pledge to filibuster FISA Amendments Act (July 2008)
2. Lobbied for $700 billion Paulson TARP bank bailout
3. Pushed for no sanctions against Lieberman despite his support for John McCain
4. Nominated healthcare company lobbyist Tom Daschle as Secretary of HHS
5. Had neoliberal Robert Rubin as his chief economics adviser
6. Then had the equally neoliberal Larry Summers assume this role
7. Chose the failing upwards Timothy Geithner to head Treasury
8. AIG bonuses and money to Goldman under Obama
9. Doubling down in Afghanistan
10. Delay and reduction of withdrawal from Iraq
11. Moving Guantanamo activities to Bagram
12. Military commissions for some detainees
13. Support for indefinite detention
14. Refusal to release torture photos under FOIA
15. Refusal to investigate and prosecute Bush era criminality
16. Geithner's DOA economic rescue programs: the PPIP and TALF
17. Minimal help for homeowners and no cramdowns
18. Treatment of Chrysler and GM with bankrupcy compared to bank no fail &quot;stress tests&quot;
19. Kabuki of TARP repayment by banks while still dependent on government credit lines
20. Extra-Constitutional use of the Fed by the Executive for fiscal policy
21. Credit Card bill without usury caps and with 9 month delay for other reforms
22. Business friendly Mary Schapiro named to head SEC
23. Gary Gensler who helped deregulate derivatives named to head CFTC
24. $787 billion stimulus: too little, too late, poorly structured
25. Use of financial crisis to attack Social Security and Medicare
26. The great healthcare non-debate
27. Continued use of state secrets argument in ongoing Bush era cases
28. Use of signing statements, including one to punish whistleblowers
29. Vetting process problems, especially tax related ones
30. Leaving Dawn Johnsen's nomination to head OLC twisting in the wind
31. Eric Holder, failure to reform DOJ, not removing worst of Bush USAs
32. Failure to move against new oil bubble
33. Retention of Bush Defense team: Gates, Patraeus, and Odierno
34. Continued missile strikes inside Pakistan
35. Keeping Bush's domestic spying programs and adding a new one, cybersecurity
36. Choice of Elena Kagan who favors expansive Presidential powers as Sollicitor General, her subsequent nomination to the Supreme Court
37. Leaving EFCA (to help counter anti-union companies) to wither in Congress
38. Welcoming Arlen Specter who brings nothing to the Democrats into the party
39. Weak ineffective proposals for financial reform
40. Obama wanted John Brennan at CIA but settled for making him his counter- terrorism adviser
41. Chas Freeman with broader Mideast perspective done in by AIPAC
42. Dennis Blair made DNI; failed to act to stop atrocities in East Timor
43. Choice of McChrystal involved in torture in Iraq to head Afghanistan command
44. Obama threat to suspend intelligence cooperation with UK over Binyam Mohamed case
45. Efforts to keep Bush and Obama White House logs secret
46. Playing games with &quot;Don't ask, don't tell&quot;
47. Filing a brief to overturn Jackson (access to lawyer) in the Montejo case
48. Not withdrawing Bush brief in Osborne DNA case
49. Egregious brief in challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
50. The Supplemental which made Iraq and Afghanistan Democratic wars
51. Choice of Rahm Emanuel as the President's Chief of Staff
52. Choice of Dennis Ross as Iran envoy and then his move to the White House
53. Politically embarrassing processes to fill Obama and Clinton's Senate seats
54. Choice of Bill Richardson, then Judd Gregg to head Commerce Department
55. Reneging on pledge to re-negotiate NAFTA
56. Obama's throwing his pastor Jeremiah Wright to the curb, then reaching out to religious conservative Rick Warren
57. Continued challenges to habeas corpus petitions over indefinite detention, the Janko case
58. The Obama White House website
59. Continuing an ineffective program that Iran can exploit politically
60. Going slow on climate change when there is no time to
61. Not withdrawing a Bush-era amicus brief in the Ricci v. DeStefano reverse discrimination case and supporting a rollback of Title VII
62. Appointment of a CIA General Counsel who doesn't know if waterboarding is torture
63. Appointment of a DNI General Counsel who doesn't know if waterboarding is torture
64. CIA delay in a FOIA request concerning torture
65. The influence of Goldman Sachs in the Obama Administration
66. Attempt to keep secret the Cheney interview on the Plame affair
67. Mountaintop removal under Obama
68. Attempt to restrict Congressional notification on intelligence matters
69. Opposition to a second stimulus
70. Another egregious attempt to fight a habeas corpus petition in the Jawad case
71. Continuing charter schools and standardized tests
72. Holder's decision to support a weak, narrow review of torture
73. Re-appointment of Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman
74. Continuing renditions
75. Politically dubious company was used to vet reporters in Afghanistan
76. Judge vetoes a too weak SEC plea bargain with Bank of America
77. Justice's argument for making Bagram a new Guantanamo, the al Maqaleh case
78. Defense to turn over databases to poorly controlled fusion centers
79. Obama changes but keeps Bush's Star Wars program
80. Failure to win an Israeli freeze on settlements
81. White House refuses to back its own staffer environmentalist Van Jones
82. Politicized US Attorney in the Siegelman case cleared by Office of Special Counsel
83. Criticism of Iranian nuclear program; support of Israeli nuclear weapons
84. Support for a weakened reporter's shield law
85. Use of the Zazi case to retain broad Patriot Act surveillance provisions
86. Wilner v. NSA, continuing the coverup of warrantless surveillance of communications between attorneys and detainees
87. Attempt to spike the Goldstone report on Israeli-Hamas war crimes in Gaza
88. Slowness in filling federal judgeships
89. Inadequate aid to overwhelmed state budgets
90. Attempting to dodge the Supreme Court deciding whether innocent Guantanamo detainees can be resettled in the US
91. Allowing drilling in the waters off the north coast of Alaska
92. Keeping detainee accounts of CIA torture secret
93. Current FBI manual allows for widespread domestic spying
94. Securitization invalidates most foreclosures
95. Geithner wanting unlimited powers to save large banks
96. Another state secrets defense to conceal domestic spying
97. Circuit Court dismissal of Maher Arar suit
98. Weakening Sarbanes-Oxley and calling it financial reform
99. Unemployment
100. Inspector General for Fannie and Freddie ousted for investigating fraud
101. Gaming courts to convict Guantanamo detainees
102. White House counsel removed for his principled stands on torture and Guantanamo
103. US seizes mosques claiming Iranian connection
104. Howard Dean removed as head of the DNC
105. Scientist with close ties to Monsanto put in charge of all governmental agricultural research
106. Pesticide lobbyist nominated as Chief Agricultural Negotiator for trade
107. Effort to let some government contractors avoid paying taxes
108. A bad US Attorney nomination for Northern Iowa
109. Hunger in America
110. The breast cancer recommendations fiasco
111. Ongoing confusion and disorganization in the military commissions process
112. Phillip Carter another official in closing Guantanamo resigns
113. Refusal to sign anti-land mine treaty
114. The Ghizzawi case and the legal limbo of &quot;cleared for release&quot;
115. Black prisons at Balad and Bagram
116. Delay in declassifying historic documents
117. Max Baucus' conflicts of interest in healthcare and with his girlfriend
118. Major security breach at a White House party and a ridiculous assertion of &quot;executive privilege&quot;
119. Dana &quot;Pig Missile&quot; Perino nominated to the Broadcasting Board of Governors
120. Cass Sunstein, an anti-regulator in a regulatory position
121. Warrantless for profit electronic surveillance by telecoms and search engines
122. The government sides with torture lawyer John Yoo and attacks Bevins actions again
123. The TSA publishes its security manual online
124. Toxic legal arguments in al Zahrani v. Rumsfeld, yet another Bevins action
125. The Nobel Peace Prize and a neocon acceptance speech
126. Blackwater's involvement in military and CIA assassination and drone programs
127. Congressional Research Service censorship in the firing of Morris Davis
128. AIG writes off $25 billion in debt and sticks taxpayers with the bill
129. The Administration plays hardball to kill an amendment that would lower drug costs
130. A poorly considered blank check to Fannie and Freddie
131. Continuing a Bush botch in the Nisoor Square massacre case
132. Jonathan Gruber, a major defender of Obamacare was also a paid consultant for it
133. A Geithner related cover up of the AIG at par payments on swaps
134. Adoption of stealth signing statements
135. al Bihani, more bad legal reasoning in another Guantanamo habeas case
136. Cutting Medicare and Social Security by deficit commission proposed
137. A 3 year non-freeze budget freeze proposed
138. NASA flights privatized
139. OPR report on Yoo and Bybee watered down and its relation to the Padilla case
140. Government targeting of US citizens for assassination
141. Abuse of informants by ICE agents
142. Obama leaves Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board empty
143. Obama backs firing of teachers in Rhode Island
144. Irish human rights advocate Edward Horgan has US visa pulled
145. Threatened veto of 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act over Congressional notifications
146. Obama Administration intimidation of whistleblowing site: wikileaks
147. Fish and Wildlife Service continues to ignore science on endangered species
148. Senate vacation more important than jobless benefits
149. Government seeks to compel turnover of emails without a warrant
150. Obama goes after an NSA whistleblower: the Thomas Drake case
151. Obama goes after a CIA whistleblower: the James Risen case
152. Weakening Miranda rights in national security cases
153. Advocating the privatizing of public housing
154. Another step in making Bagram the new Guantanamo, the al Maqaleh case, the appeals court edition
155. Massey mining disaster, 29 die because of corporate greed and poor regulation
156. Obama proposal for a line item veto
157. A military commander allowed to use military forces for intelligence operations without Presidential approval
158. Political pandering in sending 1200 National Guardsmen to the Southwest border
159. A sad record on resisting Guantanamo habeas petitions
160. Israel attacks an aid convoy for Gaza; Obama punts
161. A further erosion of Miranda: Berghius v. Thompkins
162. Naming James Clapper, a Bush appointee, to be the next DNI
163. DOJ seeks to protect Vatican in sex abuse scandal
164. Yahya Wehelie, an American exiled without charge
165. Failure to replace National Labor Relations Board members means hundreds of decisions must be reviewed
166. SCOTUS opts for overly broad definition of material support to terrorist groups
167. Speaker Pelosi backstabs Social Security
168. Complaints by government scientists of political interference at Bush era levels
169. Flip flop on free trade agreement with Colombia
170. SEC declares major victory but lets Goldman off easy
171. Private contracting of intelligence continues under Obama
172. Two Guantanamo prisoners to be deported back to Algeria against their will
173. The Shirley Sherrod affair: trumped up charges of racism and a bungled response 174. Whitewash report on Bush era US Attorney firings
175. Despite its record, Blackwater still gets big US government contracts
176. Wikileaks releases government files showing Pakistan involvement with Taliban and admission that things are going poorly in Afghanistan
177. Obama seeks to get access to everyone's web histories without a court order
178. Teacher funding sacrificed to keep Education Secretary Arne Duncan happy
179. State's top Iran hand resigns over Obama's Iran policy
180. Citizens United: validation of unlimited corporate political funding
181. Push to expand US arms sales around the world
182. Project Vigilant, Infragard and &quot;volunteer&quot; corporate spying for the government
183. Obama's approval hits Bush levels in Arab world
184. Effort to pre-empt state environmental lawsuits involving green house gases
185. Justice's Anti-trust division asleep at the wheel
186. Kagan's recusals render her even more ineffective on the Supreme Court
187. Poverty level highest since 1994
188. Courts run interference for corporate violators of international law
189. Warren named to set up but not to run Consumer Financial Protection Board
190. Chief economic adviser Larry Summers leaves; Obama looks for someone even more pro-business to replace him
191. DOJ IG report goes soft on Bush era surveillance against peace groups and other activists; meanwhile the Obama Administration conducts raids against similar groups
192. Move to put backdoors in the internet to facilitate spying and more requirements on banks on international money transfers of any size
193. HHS Secretary Sebelius delays for at least two years required insurance coverage for contraception
194. Americans on Medicaid increased to 48.5 million in 2009
195. Big home lenders suspend foreclosures as their documentation gets challenged in court
196. HR 3808, a bill passed by Congress, to facilitate the acceptance of false documentation by banks in foreclosure proceedings
197. ICE raids and deportations increase under Obama
198. Social Security COLA frozen for second straight year; no action taken
199. Waivers for military aid to countries with child soldiers
200. Big and deserved losses in the 2010 elections
201. 42 million Americans on food stamps at the end of FY 2010
202. No indictments for those involved in the CIA destruction of the torture tapes
203. The Bowles-Simpson Cat Food Commission proposals
204. $3 billion in aid for Israel for a 90 day settlement freeze
205. No change in Democratic Congressional leadership after 2010 election disaster
206. Forced proselytizing still prevalent at US Air Force Academy
207. TSA harassment and violation of the 4th Amendment
208. More TSA idiocy: full body scans and invasive pat downs
209. The response to the 2009 coup in Honduras
210. Use of diplomatic personnel to spy at the UN
211. Fed proposes rule change to Truth in Lending Act to protect bank fraud
212. FCC head Genachowski takes an axe to net neutrality
213. Lieberman and Amazon.com seek to censor wikileaks
214. Pressuring the Spanish government into dropping torture prosecutions against 6 high level Bush officials
215. Neoliberal free trade deal with South Korea at a time of high unemployment
216. Hamfisted banning access to wikileaks by government departments
217. Massive screwup in printing $100 bills
218. Extending tax cuts for the rich in a poor compromise on jobless benefits
219. Dancing boys of Afghanistan paid for by US contractor Dyncorp
220. EPA backtracks on smog standards
221. Former OMB director Peter Orszag goes to Citigroup
222. Obama breaks the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to supply Israel with nuclear fuel
223. DREAM Act for children of illegal immigrants done in by Senate Democrats
224. DOJ drops investigations of corrupt members of Congress
225. The FBI's Guardian database, another useless, intrusive surveillance program
226. Pentagon weakens rules on contractor conflicts of interest
227. Investigation by state Attorney Generals into foreclosuregate: no criminal charges
228. Obama names Mr. NAFTA Bill Daley as his new Chief of Staff
229. Obama names neoliberal free trader Gene Sperling to replace Larry Summers
230. Executive Order to make regulations more business-friendly
231. Gulet Mohamed: Detention and torture of US citizens by proxy
232. Nelson v. NASA: government can demand intrusive, unnecessary information about its employees
233. Choice of GE's outsourcing CEO Jeffrey Immelt as Obama's Jobs Czar
234. Failure to weaken or eliminate the filibuster
235. Corporate targeting of Wikileaks and liberal organizations
236. Reaction to the popular revolution in Egypt
237. HHS Secretary Sebelius helps states cut Medicaid rolls and funding
238. Petraeus accuses parents not US attacks for burns to children in Afghanistan
239. US general in Afghanistan sets up illegal propaganda program targeting Americans
240. Obama plans to devastate small block grants program for the poor
241. Silence on the Wisconsin labor protests
242. Former Senator Christopher Dodd quickly becomes lobbyist after promising not to
243. Obama reinstitutes sham review tribunals at Guantanamo
244. DOJ colludes with Bush era official Scott Bloch to keep him out of jail
245. The treatment of Bradley Manning
246. State Department spokesman PJ Crowley forced to resign over Manning comments
247. Massive conflicts of interest in David Stevens at HUD and soon to be head of main lobbying group for the mortgage industry
248. Mild reaction to bloody anti-democratic repression in Bahrain and Yemen
249. Torture psychologist appointed to White House task force
250. FBI program which allows them to investigate anyone doesn't work (surprise)
251. In his Libya war, Obama has completed the unconstitutional process of Presidents' usurpation of Congress' power to make war
252. Obama accepts award for transparency in secret
253. Democrats create PACs to receive unlimited contributions from anonymous donors 254. 2011 government shutdown threat as Shock Doctrine
254. The 2011 &quot;great&quot; biprtisan budget deal
255. The OCC deal to cover for banks in foreclosuregate
256. Reshuffling neocons at DOD and the CIA
257. Leak of Detainee Assessments shines light on the weakness of cases against many Guantanamo inmates
258. Geithner shields foreign exchange derivatives from Dodd-Frank regulation
259. Crazy new application for some US passports
260. DOJ wants SCOTUS to allow for GPS tracking without a warrant
261. An industry stacked panel to study fracking
262. SCOTUS attacks small claim class actions
263. SCOTUS okays fraud in financial presentations
264. SCOTUS attacks large class actions and Title VII
265. DOJ's non-investigation of torture produces few results
266. Department of State threatens participants of Gaza flotilla with terrorism charges
267. Detainees now held on ships to avoid judicial scrutiny
268. CIA operating a black site prison in Somalia
269. SCOTUS and DC Appeals Court torpedoing detainee habeas petitions
270. SCOTUS greatly expands warrantless searches; Obama DOJ approves
271. Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the 2011 spike in gasoline prices
272. Christine Varney, head of DOJ Anti-Trust Division, goes to law firm that had case before her
273. Senseless 2011 debt ceiling crisis, budget cutting, and attacks on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
274. TSA closes US airspace to Mexican human rights activist
275. DHS guts its unit monitoring right wing terrorism in US
276. &quot;Recovery&quot; benefited corporations, not workers
277. Harassment of a government scientist Charles Monett because his work clashes with drilling in the Arctic
278. African Americans and Hispanic wealth took hardest hit from financial crises
279. Cass Sunstein sitting on labor rules to protect child workers
280. Oil leasing in Gulf resumes
281. Administration pressures NY AG Schneiderman to go along with bogus mortgage settlement
282. DOJ dumps responsibility for its bungled gun running sting on handy US Attorney
283. US ranks 41st in the world in infant mortality
284. White House engages in selective prosecution of Dan Choi over DADT protest
285. COBRA extension ditched
286. Obama spikes EPA ozone limits
287. 2011 Obama fictional jobs plan
288. Contractors cost twice as much as unionized federal workers doing the same work
289. New EPA greenhouse gas limits also being drawn out
290. CFTC proposes ineffectual limits on commodity speculation
291. State Department targets career officer Peter Van Buren for writing critical book
292. Secret Law and the OLC legal justification for killing a US citizen abroad
293. US incomes fall more after recession than during it
294. Another Afghanistan fail: torture rampant in Afghan prisons
295. Bank of America dumps derivative exposure on to the FDIC with Fed approval
296. New rule to legitimize government lying in response to FOIA requests
297. Cronyism and the Keystone XL pipeline
298. Despite pledge, Obama still taking money from lobbyists
299. Secure Communities and deportation as a business
300. The Occupy movement and the attacks upon it 
301. DOJ prosecuting financial fraud at the lowest rate in 20 years
302. US stops funding of UNESCO
303. 42% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck
304. The Post Office facing cuts because of unnecessary prefunding mandates 



















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      <title>US terror &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;drone&lt;/span&gt;s kill more civilians than terrorists: ICG report </title>
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      <description>A new report shows that US assassination drones in Pakistan have killed &quot;scores of innocent civilians&quot; instead of targeting terrorists. 

On Tuesday, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) published a report entitled &quot;Drones: Myths and Reality in Pakistan&quot; that says the United States' refuses to acknowledge that the CIA-led drone campaign &quot;undermines efforts to assess the program's legality.&quot; 

The ICG called on Washington to &quot;demonstrate respect for the international humanitarian law principles of humanity, distinction, proportionality and military necessity.&quot; 

The report said the US must &quot;establish clearer lines of authority and accountability, including greater congressional and judicial oversight.&quot; 

&quot;The Obama administration should terminate any practice, such as the reported signature strikes, that does not comply with principles of international humanitarian and human rights law. It must also introduce transparency to the drone program, including its governing rules, how targets are selected and how civilian damage is weighed.&quot;
Signature strikes target groups of men by using behavior patterns associated with terrorist activity rather than targeting terrorists with known identities. 

Pakistan's tribal regions are often attacked by US assassination drones. 

According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the United States' drone strikes in Pakistan have killed up to 3,587 people since 2004. 

Washington claims that its airstrikes target militants who cross the border into and out of Afghanistan. 

Pakistanis have held many demonstrations to condemn the United States' violations of their national sovereignty. 

In September 2012, a report by the Stanford Law School and the New York University School of Law gave an alarming account of the effect that assassination drone strikes have on ordinary people in Pakistan's tribal areas. The report noted, &quot;The number of 'high-level' targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low -- estimated at just 2%.&quot; 

The killing of Pakistani civilians, including women and children, has strained relations between Islamabad and Washington.</description>
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      <description>New Developed Drone With Eagle Claws.


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      <title>Videos of Iran's new stealth &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;drone&lt;/span&gt; </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:25:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>It's called the Hamaseh in Farsi, meaning 'epic' in English.
It looks like a poor copy of an Israeli drone, the Heron TP UAV (see photos at bottom).</description>
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