NP-Submission...Scahill
Keith Davis
kbob42 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 09:20:32 CST 2018
Thank you, Thomas.
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> On Jan 21, 2018, at 7:41 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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> > Reading Scahill’s Dirty Wars. Anyone else read it?
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> Oh yes. I distinctly remember the story of Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year old son. There is a rather sad addendum now to the al-Awlaki tale: Al-Awlakis 8-year old daughter was killed in a US commando attack in Yemen about a year ago. According to some reports she was shot in the neck at close range by a Navy SEAL:
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> https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/13/in-the-shadow-of-death-on-the-killing-of-nawar-al-awlaki/
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> The movie to the book is interesting but Scahill comes across as rather self-aggrandizing there.
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> For how this and other attempts at "pacification" and "counter-terrorism" tie in with the Phoenix Program, see Douglas Valentine, "The Phoenix Program", of course, and "The CIA as Organized Crime."
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> For Phoenix as "computerized genocide", see
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOmQoADOQWs
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> ("Spooks and Cowboys, Gooks and Grunts", Part 1)
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> Relatedly:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eLYXJIZfg
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> ("School of the Americas", BE related)
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