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Of late, the propaganda has been puffing up against the anti-drone campaign. Is it the election? Have we been so successful that they feel threatened? Whatever the reason, the ‘Empire’ is Striking Back. Last Fall, 2 research papers came out of Academia that were strongly critical of the US program of deadly drone strikes and [...] Fatima:A 6 year old girl killed in May of 2010. She died in the hospital shortly after Noor took her picture. The strike targeted an Al Qaeda operative from Egypt named Yazid. It was unclear for time whether Yazid was actually killed. However Fatima’s father lost 2 wives and 3 children in the attack, which [...] A local journalist has taken the lead in drawing attention to the victims of drone strikes in Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Persistent drone attacks in this region have terrorized the community and disorganized the society that is the basis of support for the people. Noor Behram has dedicated himself to bringing the tragedy [...] Four of the men we met with in Islamabad had come to tell us about family members killed in the same drone strike. On March 17, 2011 a drone attack on a Jirga, or meeting of Tribal Elders in DattaKhel in North Waziristan killed at least 44 people, many of them Tribal Elders. More were [...] Karim Khan lost his teenage son, Zainullah, and his younger brother Asif Iqbal, in a drone attack that destroyed his home in December 2009. At the time, he wasn’t home, or he too would have died. The government says that a prominent militant was in the house at the time, but Khan insists that the [...] First thing in the morning I’ll board the bus heading for South Waziristan. Thirty five westerners will be heading for Dehr Ismail Khan and on to the border town of Kotkai, including Clive Stafford Smith of the London based organization Reprieve, who started our defending prisoners in Guantanamo, and is now focused on mounting lawsuits [...] We had an open discussion at the Institute of Policy Studies, a conservative Think Tank formed in 1979. Our discussion was chaired by Khalid Rahman, Director General of the Institute. Ann Wright and Dr. Akram Zaki, a retired Diplomat and Senator led the discussion. About 10 Peace Activists were received by about 30 members of [...] Always a dollar short and a day late, I arrived at Islamabad airport with no small bills for tipping. I over tipped the guy who followed me from check-in and waited for my bag with me, then skipped the one who ran up and pulled it to the car, and told the guy at the [...] It is 8 pm, about noon in New York, and I am sitting in the Abu Dhabi airport on my way to Islamabad. So far, the long flight has been quite tolerable. I had planned some constructive activities, but I needed to just sit and relax. It has been quite a whirlwind of preparation with [...]
Last week I participated in a panel presentation titled The Conflict in Syria Today, hosted by United for Justice with Peace at the Friends Meeting House in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The other panelists, Elaine Hagopian, a second generation Syrian American with family in Damascus, and Najib Saliba, a Lebanese American immigrant, both reported on the [...] |
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