“Forensically, it is important to show how the crime of murder happened (which is what it is here),” said Stafford Smith in an email. “One almost always uses the murder weapon in a case. But perhaps more important, I think this physical proof — this missile killed this child — is important to have people take it seriously.”
In the religious rhetoric used by al-Qaida’s online allies, Fatima was a “martyr.” In a statement quoted by Long War Journal, the al-Ansara forum said the senior al-Qaida commander Mustafa Abu Yazid had been killed in a “convoy of martyrs on the road with his wife and three daughters and his granddaughter; men, women and children; neighbors and loved ones.” But Fatima was not Yazid’s daughter, according to Noor, who reported from the scene. She was the daughter of another man who lost two wives and three children in the barrage. More
America is making enemies each time they murder people in places like Mohammed Khel in North Waziristan, or in Yemen or Somalia. It is a self defeating policy for the country, for all you are doing is creating more people that want revenge. This will obviously mean more wars, more drones and more enemies adinfinitum. And eventually the people of these areas, which may be remote and backward, but the people are ambitious and intelligent, will find a way to extract payback. They will then use Obama's argument that 'they have the right to kill anyone anywhere in the world who they feel is threatening them'. Where does this stop? Editor
