A Tale of Two Murders

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A Tale of Two Murders by Adam Bates -- Antiwar.com

From the article:

I do not mean to diminish the death of Trayvon Martin or what it represents. I am, however, begging those outraged at the death of Trayvon Martin to take a look behind the Obama Administration’s curtain and see what horrors are being done in their name and with their money. Hooded sweatshirts and dark skin can never justify suspicion and violence in a just society. Neither, though, can facing Mecca when you pray or having a father that the President abhors.

Or maybe Abdulrahman al-Awlaki just didn’t look quite enough like Barack Obama’s imagined son for the President to grieve openly after ordering his death.

 

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Families of U.S. citizens killed in drone strike file wrongful death lawsuit

It is unclear who the US targeted in the second strike, which was 200 miles away from the strike which killed al-Awlaki. The teenager, who was born in Denver, was killed when he was eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant with his teenage cousin.

Two years ago, ACLU and CCR were unsuccessful in their attempts to involve the courts in an action by Nasser al-Awlaki to try to stop the government from killing his son. A federal judge threw out the case on the basis that Nasser al-Awlaki had no standing to file the lawsuit on behalf of his son. He also said decisions about targeted killings were a “political question” for executive branch officials and not for the courts.