Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing

[Anti Federalist]

Nobel Peace Prize my aching ass.

Soon to be coming to your town as local and state cops get more and more drones.



Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/under-obama-an-emerging-global-apparatus-for-drone-killing/2011/12/13/gIQANPdILP_story_1.html

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In retrospect, did Boston Marathon bombing reverse Obama led drone attacks trend?



Boston Bomber's Brother Had Images of Dead Children on Laptop


http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/lg/public/2015/04/28/2015-04-27t233507z558926266tm3eb4r1ibj01rtrmadp3boston-bombings-trial.JPG Loay Assaf (R) testifies as defense attorney David Bruck looks on during the first day of the defense's presentation in the penalty phase of the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in this court sketch in Boston, Massachusetts, United States April 27, 2015. Jane Collins/Reuters

BOSTON (Reuters) - The older brother of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was transformed from a heavy drinker and drugs user into someone obsessed with Islam after returning from a trip to Russia in 2012, witnesses said on Tuesday.
The testimony comes as lawyers for Tsarnaev build their argument for a federal jury that he was a pawn in his now-dead brother's scheme to bomb the world-renowned race on April 15, 2013, and should be sentenced to life in prison, not death.
The 21-year-old ethnic Chechen was convicted this month of killing three people and injuring 264 in the bombing, and shooting dead a police officer three days later alongside the older brother, Tamerlan.
(http://www.newsweek.com/trial)

Rogerio Franca, who lived near the Tsarnaev family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told jurors Tamerlan was a partier before his trip to Russia but transformed into someone more closely resembling a devout Muslim when he returned.
"Most of the time he was drunk, most of the time he was high," Franca said of Tamerlan before his trip. Afterward, Franca said he saw Tamerlan in downtown Boston and he appeared "different" - he grew a "big beard," dressed in white, and his wife was covered and submissive.

http://www.newsweek.com/boston-bombers-brother-had-images-dead-children-laptop-326196