The Day We Fight Back (click here)
The death of Abdulrahman is an example of a drone program out of control. Why is this about a drone program? Because the metadata gathered by the NSA is used in the drone program.
...Abdulrahman was a fan of my music. (click here) It was when I researched this kid that the reality of the drone policy hit me. This kid had a Facebook page. He listened to hip-hop. He was a perfectly normal American teenager — indistinguishable from Trayvon Martin, or any of my other fans. To know that a staggering number of innocent children are being killed in US drone strikes, and put a face to them....
Abdulrahman should still be alive. His death was an mistake.
Here is why.
Jeremy Scahill spoke last night on "All In with Chris Hayes" and stated, through a new contact that was a former member of the drone program, it uses SIM card signatures to target people. In other words, the NSA gathers the Meta Data and provides it to the USA drone program for targeting human beings believed to be a threat to the USA. The information is dehumanized. The 'data information' is the only aspect of the Meta Data provided to the drone program.
Getting the picture yet?
No?
Okay.
...Nearly two years later, (click here) I still have no answers. The United States government has refused to explain why Abdulrahman was killed. It was not until May of this year that the Obama administration, in a supposed effort to be more transparent, publicly acknowledged what the world already knew — that it was responsible for his death...
Suppose you have a good friend that is like a brother or sister and you speak with them via their mobile device/cell phone everyday and sometimes more frequently.
For whatever reason the Meta Data picks up the SIM card information from your cell phone as a target for the drone program. No name. No face. Simply, the Meta Data has turned up a reason for the USA to target you as a threat to the USA or it's military operations.
Your SIM card information is sent to the drone program and the drone finds you, targets you and kills you. Well, that doesn't mean that ends the drone's hunt.
See, because that person you considered a brother or sister shows up frequently as a contact then they are as much a threat as you are. They have to be because otherwise why would you be communicating with them so frequently.
So, when Anwar al-Aulaki was killed the information from the Meta Data showed HIS SON'S cell phone was a frequent contact. The US Drone Program had no identity, no evidence about terrorist activities, the ONLY crime Abdulrahman committed was loving his father. He would be in contact with him frequently simply because they were father and son.
The USA military was so full of revenge following the Fort Hood shootings they weren't going to stop with Anwar al-Aulaki, they wanted them all. When Abdulrahman was killed it had nothing to do with being Anwar's son, it was because his SIM chip information told the US drone program HE WAS NEXT.
Abdulrahman, a US citizen by birth was brutally MURDERED in the young years of his life because the USA military didn't BOTHER with facts or a presence in the way of a military operation that takes place on the ground with soldiers that actually captures rather than kills enemies.
Abdulrahman was murdered because his SIM card information dictated it!
That is why we fight back.
...Abdulrahman was a fan of my music. (click here) It was when I researched this kid that the reality of the drone policy hit me. This kid had a Facebook page. He listened to hip-hop. He was a perfectly normal American teenager — indistinguishable from Trayvon Martin, or any of my other fans. To know that a staggering number of innocent children are being killed in US drone strikes, and put a face to them....
Abdulrahman should still be alive. His death was an mistake.
Here is why.
Jeremy Scahill spoke last night on "All In with Chris Hayes" and stated, through a new contact that was a former member of the drone program, it uses SIM card signatures to target people. In other words, the NSA gathers the Meta Data and provides it to the USA drone program for targeting human beings believed to be a threat to the USA. The information is dehumanized. The 'data information' is the only aspect of the Meta Data provided to the drone program.
Getting the picture yet?
No?
Okay.
...Nearly two years later, (click here) I still have no answers. The United States government has refused to explain why Abdulrahman was killed. It was not until May of this year that the Obama administration, in a supposed effort to be more transparent, publicly acknowledged what the world already knew — that it was responsible for his death...
Suppose you have a good friend that is like a brother or sister and you speak with them via their mobile device/cell phone everyday and sometimes more frequently.
For whatever reason the Meta Data picks up the SIM card information from your cell phone as a target for the drone program. No name. No face. Simply, the Meta Data has turned up a reason for the USA to target you as a threat to the USA or it's military operations.
Your SIM card information is sent to the drone program and the drone finds you, targets you and kills you. Well, that doesn't mean that ends the drone's hunt.
See, because that person you considered a brother or sister shows up frequently as a contact then they are as much a threat as you are. They have to be because otherwise why would you be communicating with them so frequently.
So, when Anwar al-Aulaki was killed the information from the Meta Data showed HIS SON'S cell phone was a frequent contact. The US Drone Program had no identity, no evidence about terrorist activities, the ONLY crime Abdulrahman committed was loving his father. He would be in contact with him frequently simply because they were father and son.
The USA military was so full of revenge following the Fort Hood shootings they weren't going to stop with Anwar al-Aulaki, they wanted them all. When Abdulrahman was killed it had nothing to do with being Anwar's son, it was because his SIM chip information told the US drone program HE WAS NEXT.
Abdulrahman, a US citizen by birth was brutally MURDERED in the young years of his life because the USA military didn't BOTHER with facts or a presence in the way of a military operation that takes place on the ground with soldiers that actually captures rather than kills enemies.
Abdulrahman was murdered because his SIM card information dictated it!
That is why we fight back.
