Warlord
11-18-2013, 03:37 PM
Try and get your congresscritter to turn up to the drone briefing tomorrow. Please contact them now and give them this important information!
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UPDATE: It has now been announced that Reps. Barbara Lee, Alan Grayson and Jan Schakowsky will be the hosts of a 4 pm congressional briefing at the Rayburn building in Room 2456 tomorrow. During the briefing, a Yemeni delegation will speak about the impact of US drones on their country. Testimony will be given by Faisal bin Ali Jaber, whose relative, an outspoken al Qaeda critic, was killed by a US drone.
Original Post
A Yemeni civil engineer, who spoke at the 2013 Drone Summit organized by the peace group, CODEPINK, has come to the United States to share his story about how a US drone strike killed his two relatives.
Five men were gathering behind a local mosque in their village of Khashamir in southeast Yemen when a United States drone launched Hellfire missiles at them. Four of the men were instantly killed, their bodies blown into pieces. The fifth man was killed as he tried to crawl away.
The attack took place on August 29, 2012. Yemen’s Defense Ministry initially claimed that three members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had been killed. Two of the individuals killed, according to a Human Rights Watch report (http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/yemen1013_ForUpload_0.pdf), turned out to be Salim bin Ali Jaber, “a cleric and father of seven,” who “had long preached against AQAP’s violent methods.” Another of the men killed was Walid bin Ali Jaber, “one of the village’s few police officers.” They had been participating in a meeting because “three alleged AQAP members” wanted to meet with him about a recent “strong denunciation of AQAP at the local mosque.”
cont:
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/11/18/yemeni-civil-engineer-traveled-to-us-to-address-government-that-killed-family-members-with-drone/
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UPDATE: It has now been announced that Reps. Barbara Lee, Alan Grayson and Jan Schakowsky will be the hosts of a 4 pm congressional briefing at the Rayburn building in Room 2456 tomorrow. During the briefing, a Yemeni delegation will speak about the impact of US drones on their country. Testimony will be given by Faisal bin Ali Jaber, whose relative, an outspoken al Qaeda critic, was killed by a US drone.
Original Post
A Yemeni civil engineer, who spoke at the 2013 Drone Summit organized by the peace group, CODEPINK, has come to the United States to share his story about how a US drone strike killed his two relatives.
Five men were gathering behind a local mosque in their village of Khashamir in southeast Yemen when a United States drone launched Hellfire missiles at them. Four of the men were instantly killed, their bodies blown into pieces. The fifth man was killed as he tried to crawl away.
The attack took place on August 29, 2012. Yemen’s Defense Ministry initially claimed that three members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had been killed. Two of the individuals killed, according to a Human Rights Watch report (http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/yemen1013_ForUpload_0.pdf), turned out to be Salim bin Ali Jaber, “a cleric and father of seven,” who “had long preached against AQAP’s violent methods.” Another of the men killed was Walid bin Ali Jaber, “one of the village’s few police officers.” They had been participating in a meeting because “three alleged AQAP members” wanted to meet with him about a recent “strong denunciation of AQAP at the local mosque.”
cont:
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/11/18/yemeni-civil-engineer-traveled-to-us-to-address-government-that-killed-family-members-with-drone/