So this is what pre-emption looks like...
USA assassinates Yemeni citizens without trial or jury
uploaded 08 Nov 2002
Yemen, which is still under the shock of killing 6 members of al-Qaida
organization on the ground of an attack said to be by the CIA, has urged
its citizens who were driven to this organization ( al-Qaida) to give up
violence, while some US press said that Yemen had before hand known about
the attack and approved it.
In a speech he addressed to members of al-Qaida organization in Yemen on
Tuesday evening, on the occasion of the beginning of Ramadan, the Yemeni
President Ali Abdullah Saleh said" we call on all members of our homeland
who get themselves involved with al-Qaida organization to announce their
redemption and to give up their guilt committed against the homeland." He
said that Islam "does not advocate violence and extremism, and if those
(al-Qaida members) be Muslims and affiliate to this country then they have
to return back to the right (path) and they will be then safe, having the
same rights of Yemeni citizens as guaranteed in the Yemeni constitution."
On Sunday Yemen witnessed an operation attributed to the CIA and claimed
the life of six presumed members of al-Qaida organization including one of
its officials Ali Qaid Sanyan al-Harithi who has been chased for months by
the FBI. Al-Harithi is thought to be the planner of the attack that took
place in 2000 against the US warship "USS Cole" at Aden seaport which
resulted in killing 17 American marines.
On the other hand, the Washington Post and New York Times said yesterday
that the attack was made at the consent of the Yemeni government. The
Washington Post quoted an American official as saying that a pilotless
plane controlled by CIA fired the missiles which killed the six men saying
"An administration official with knowledge of the attack said the
CIA-controlled Predator was being operated under a presidential finding
that authorized covert actions by the agency against Osama bin Laden's
terrorist organization, and although civilians were killed in the attack it
was considered a military action and not an assassination."
The same paper added that the attack was made at the consent of the Yemeni
government and in collaboration with it. Meantime, the New York Times said
yesterday that Bush last year gave vast authorities for the CIA to chase
al-Qaida members in any place in the world. According to those officials,
the US president has not in particular permitted firing the missile which
killed al-Harithi as far as he had already given the permission to carry
out operations of that sort for military and intelligence officials.
The yemeni's are learning what its like to live in occupied Palestine.Soon
we may all be living there.Unless we fight hellfire with hellfire of our
own before it's too late.
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