An American drone strike in January killed four people in Afghanistan:
An American and an Italian held hostage by al-Qaida, as well as two Americans working with the terror group, were inadvertently killed in U.S. counterterrorism operations earlier this year, the White House said Thursday.
The White House said that Warren Weinstein, an American held by al-Qaida since 2011, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian held since 2012, were killed in a January operation in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The operation targeted an al-Qaida-associated compound and there was no reason to believe either hostage was present, the White House said.
In addition, the U.S. believes that Ahmed Farouq, an American who the White House says was an al-Qaida leader, was killed in the same operation. U.S. officials have also concluded that Adam Gadahn, an American who had served as a spokesman for the terror network, was killed in a separate operation in January.
The White House said Farouq and Gadhan were not specifically targeted in the operations, nor did the U.S. have information indicating their presence at the sites.
One of the casualties, Warren Weinstein, was kidnapped in 2011. He begged Obama to save him before Obama finally killed him.
Yes, Obama killed Weinstein and the others.
You see, Obama maintains a kill list for drone strikes.
Since the Obama administration largely shut down the CIA’s rendition programme, choosing instead to dispose of its enemies in drone attacks, those individuals who are being nominated for killing have been discussed at a weekly counter-terrorism meeting at the White House situation room that has become known as Terror Tuesday. Barack Obama, in the chair and wishing to be seen as a restraining influence, agrees the final schedule of names. Once details of these meetings began to emerge it was not long before the media began talking of “kill lists.” More double-speak was required, it seemed, and before long the term disposition matrix was born.
Killing Americans is nothing new to our President. Obama has killed four Americans prior to this incident.
Obama has been personally directing drone strikes for some time, raising the ire of some in the left wing media:
The problem isn’t the leaks, it’s the policy. It’s the assertion of a presidential prerogative that the administration can target for death people it decides are terrorists — even American citizens — anywhere in the world, at any time, on secret evidence with no review.
Yes, Obama killed them:
The approval process for a drone strike has been a longstanding mystery of the Obama Administration. The CIA’s especially clandestine drone use is one of the starkest examples of contrast with the President’s campaign promise to bring transparency to the White House.
Now with answers about the process finally being exposed, findings show not only a weekly-expanded kill list, but also show the President at the head of it all. Jo Becker and Scott Shane at the Times report, “He signs off on every strike in Yemen and Somalia and also on the more complex and risky strikes in Pakistan — about a third of the total.”
Though many aspects of the strike process remain murky, it is now clear that President Obama has taken a major leadership role and level of accountability in the aerial war against Al Qaeda. This development quells worries that assassinations were being approved and carried out on the sole authority of the CIA.
Obama took responsibility for the action, but then again he took no questions either. Obama can add to his resume. He got Bin Laden and has reminded us of that incessantly.
And now he can also brag that he got Warren and Giovanni.
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