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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 05:51 PM Oct 2013

Please tell me, Mr President, why a US drone assassinated my mother

Please tell me, Mr President, why a US drone assassinated my mother
Momina Bibi was a 67-year-old grandmother and midwife from Waziristan. Yet President Obama tells us drones target terrorists

...the United States and its citizens probably do not know this. No one ever asked us who was killed or injured that day. Not the United States or my own government. Nobody has come to investigate nor has anyone been held accountable. Quite simply, nobody seems to care.


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The last time I saw my mother, Momina Bibi, was the evening before Eid al-Adha. She was preparing my children's clothing and showing them how to make sewaiyaan, a traditional sweet made of milk. She always used to say: the joy of Eid is the excitement it brings to the children.

Last year, she never had that experience. The next day, 24 October 2012, she was dead, killed by a US drone that rained fire down upon her as she tended her garden.

Nobody has ever told me why my mother was targeted that day. The media reported that the attack was on a car, but there is no road alongside my mother's house. Several reported the attack was on a house. But the missiles hit a nearby field, not a house. All reported that five militants were killed. Only one person was killed – a 67-year-old grandmother of nine.

My three children – 13-year-old Zubair, nine-year-old Nabila and five-year-old Asma – were playing nearby when their grandmother was killed. All of them were injured and rushed to hospitals. Were these children the "militants" the news reports spoke of? Or perhaps, it was my brother's children? They, too, were there. They are aged three, seven, 12, 14, 15 and 17 years old. The eldest four had just returned from a day at school, not long before the missile struck.



the rest:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/president-us-assassinated-mother?CMP=twt_gu
KoKo also has this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3907558
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Please tell me, Mr President, why a US drone assassinated my mother (Original Post) kpete Oct 2013 OP
Why wasn't the three militants killed not mentioned in this article along with three cows which Thinkingabout Oct 2013 #1
Reluctant to answer the question I see RedCappedBandit Oct 2013 #2
What are you talking about? Thinkingabout Oct 2013 #3

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Why wasn't the three militants killed not mentioned in this article along with three cows which
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 06:59 PM
Oct 2013

Was for the Muslim celebration? This was a compound which stored weapons also which was left out of the article as well. In fact the article said the only one killed was the grandmother,huh? Guess it is not important to tell the truth if it does not fit the story the writer wanted told, in other words, climb a tree and tell a lie rather than staying on the ground and telling the truth.

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