“Nobody has ever told me why my mother was targeted that day. The media reported that the attack was…”
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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.
But 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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– Rafiq ur Rehman: Please tell me, Mr President, why a US drone assassinated my mother. (via rcabbasi)
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/65211513159.
October 31st, 2013 at 10:56 pm
The current president would blame it on his predecessor in the office, if he cared enough to respond. Of course, this incident wouldn’t have happened if he had ended the war, as promised during the campaigning for his first term.