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in july 2022. i'll kind alida i, man, also walker eat, was killed by a us trend strike in kabul. afghanistan, no matter how long it takes, no matter where you. hi. if you are a threat to our people, united states will find you and take you out. the us uses drones to kill alleged terrorists around the world with or without a declaration of war executions. without trial. august the 29th 2021. original footage film from

a u. s. combat drone circling over. cobble scanning for terrorists. nato forces on heightened didn't days earlier, and i as terrorist attack, killed over 170 people with cobble add port. among them were 13 us soldiers. many of the victims were trying to leave the country after the taliban takeover. but in other parts of the city, life was continuing as normal it or the actual i'm is in the, it was a sunday and as it up we were outside wall street updating the kids were playing. they were happy with. i need to, there was going to be a wedding that we just done the shopping that he got to see that golden around 9 a. m, the u. s. military receives intelligence, suggesting another imminent threat to the airport, involving a white sudan, similar to the car driven by z m. all right. ok. mardi surveillance cameras film him arriving at his job at 930. 5.

mardi is an employee of a us aid organization that distributes food in afghanistan, hours later, surveillance camera footage shows arc mardi filling water into canisters and loading them into his truck. david, flood them with that as he always brought clean water home in canisters. because he can't drink the tap water here. avia. that's what the canisters before, where they are now at the media methodist, the father party. it's these canisters that make him suspicious to the u. s. military around 4 p. m. r. marty leaves the 8 agencies office. he has no idea that he's

being tracked by a u. s. drone, as he makes his way home. ah, ah, just before 5 p. m. oc montes car turns into his street. by now, u. s. military analysts have concluded that the car contains explosives and another attack is imminent. rockmart, he begins backing the car into the driveway. his children and his brothers children are waiting for him. goggles mad, i'm with derrick. notify me. the children were always excited. when's m r i came home as of may of them. they liked him very much. hon. mamma, they called him grandpa cornish on may. that video grandpa is coming. as you start from that they would all go outside melma, the kids thought the car was call and they'd always get in it. that's what they did that day to donna hall,

norma. they made the flag coca cola shonda halima that shed ah do worse our floor will hard to le hagen an unguarded mendez garnishment hopped at an dawn undelivered drones strike against an isis k vehicle. an auto does those oxy? mitch branched off ballade and on drobek sparks flew cough it was i hadn't i hadn't an unguarded mind by turn, an am slap aft in cobbler fuque half and say in that. but adam dorn and angular felt i moved mosley concepcion, adam tita the procedures were correctly followed. a lot of writers strike in cobble the taliban has given us permission to film the root of vig, we're on our way to the home where the attack took place in august 2021. to meet a family member who witnessed what had

a little naz rant is the brother in law of the n g o worker who was killed. this courtyard is where the missile hit a 2nd car park nearby protected other family members from the blast. the victims included 7 children, the water canister suspected to be explosives are still ham. them done. that was a sudden we were standing outside a bit further down the street on that's when suddenly there was a terrible sound got on by the sound of a rocket and then an explosion. we ran into the court yard. the gate was completely destroyed and the fellow how little children had been blown to pieces that we picked them up, charge them us. there was blood and body parts everywhere and with them did diversion for us. as well as the 7 children, 3 adults were killed, shot at the bye,

put the 10 bodies in the coffins with my own hands. the children were totally charge. well, after that, it was only after we buried them and come home. the thought that it really sank in what had happened to the tom can come, come, set them up to see for 3 weeks later, after the new york times investigated the attack and published its findings. the u . s. military admitted it had made a mistake and killed innocent people appreciate the opportunity to take responsibility for this. we now assert that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with isis j or were a direct rep for us. i offer my profound condolence. ready to the family and friends of those who were killed. afghanistan has long been the main target of us drones. and germany plays a key role in the u. s. drone wall. ramstein

in our island palatinate. the largest u. s. military base outside the united states. and central to you as drone operations wild wind ramstein is home to a control center where life images from drones around the world analyzed and cross referenced with intelligence. in other words, this is where much of the groundwork for targeted killings is done. blue daily jonathan, the us can kill people whenever and wherever it decides to without due process. bad vibes mention. and that is at the very least controversial in terms of germany's interpretation of international law and of themselves for years. gemini accepted us assurances that the activities in ramstein do not violate its laws. you

was the u. s. has reiterated that had respects german law in its use of the ramstein based otta. but won't dance the us actually mean by respect german law, 2 in the wake of 911, the u. s. declined a wall on terra, and passed a law approving use of all necessary and appropriate force. again, suspected terrorists in other words drowns their advantages supposedly include precision strikes and reduced collateral damage. with weapons like the predator journal, your arsenal, or troops can conduct research as drives on tours and hard to reach areas. osbourne innocent life with our extraordinary technology, we are conducting the most precise air campaign in history. let my direction united

states military successfully executed a flawless precision strike. so only terrorists killed and there's no risk to us soldiers. drones trying to controlled from here in nevada, not far from las vegas. we would have liked to shoot inside the base and talk to the u. s. military. we spent months trying to get an interview getting nowhere but which still like to take a look at the creech air force base lou. this is where the drone pilots walk thousands of miles away from their target. ah. so what are the people who live close by now about the banks? don't people like the topic?

no. no. amazingly nobody talks about anything that goes on over there. this why no, no need to we try talking to people in a local bar. we're not filming that. after 10 minutes, a former soldier threatens us with violence. if we don't leave millions in its promotional videos, the military makes drone warfare look like a video game controlled. by a joystick, do strike them. say, oh, we want to see what drone warfare means in the places where the missiles strike while that province afghanistan, us drone strikes were commonplace here for over 20 years. 2 the population lived in constant fear, never knowing when and where missiles might strike. a chord to the un over 2000 civilians died in afghanistan from asked strikes,

including drones. in the last 5 years, at the war alone, 40 percent of civilian casualties with children. we did a drone ever hit when you were playing cricket with yes and from where? oh, from their mother 1st. there was a buzzing sound, but then the missile dropped definite. and then it exploded on the ground. and boom, look, i love does any of us? wow. a we had it when they came we would hide so we wouldn't get bombed was again the dog. well, they circled overhead and then they struck, i thought of taliban or not everybody got hit with the and then they flew off again

. another was never proponents of drone strikes, argue that collateral damage is a price that has to be paid in the war on terror. last year, the u. s. succeeded in killing al qaeda leader. i man, i'll so ari with a drone. according to the pentagon, dozens of taliban and al qaeda militants have been taken out by drone strikes. but the fact remains that after 20 years of the us war, the taliban art once again in power. this former us base is now a taliban police headquarters. the police chief is a former militant, he claims that drones trying to drive people to extremism listed upwards. tucker is the mac. i believe that all or less, more and more innocent, people were dying. and many people were losing their families so much. and that's

when we saw the number of militants increasing. thus, whether to do more carville ash rocker with it's a fairy, even the c i. h, came to the conclusion in an internal study conducted several years ago. that drones might have military advantages. but could also give rise to new enemies of the u. s. u. s. drones targeted the taliban, but in every village here, people tell us about strikes that claimed the lives of innocent people. the u. s. military does not release data on civilian casualties in afghanistan. but late to pentagon papers showed that in 15 month period in 201390 percent of people killed in us drone killings, but not the intended targets. the u. s. military also uses a fraud methodology that counts or military aged males in a strike zone. as combatants, in other words, boys over 15. these 3 boys were killed by a jo,

asked drone one man tells us he is their older brother. as a family plan, according to the americans, they were always precision strikes. if they bombed a wedding party, they said they were hitting taliban. if we said that wasn't true, it didn't do any good. what about the color we ordinary people couldn't do anything . nobody believed us. seneca most trying strikes and not investigated. the claim that they are precision peelings can't be back. top research suggests the claim is inaccurate. the idea that a remote control war is a clean war, applies only to one side. and then for the time a fly, we meet brandon bryant outside the base in nevada. he used to work for the drone program as a sensor operator of a man drones. his job was to mark the drones target with

a laser. ready ah, prime says he was involved in more than 1600 pills. one day in particular stands out in his memory. a drone strike near kandahar. i remember afterwards being like, was that a kid like after missile impact and the pirates like yeah, she shut up and i was like, hey, mission cordon mc. and you asked the screener what that was, and her missing coordinator asked the screener in the screen as i got a review and feed i, we determined that it was a dog and i was like, there's no absolutely no way. there's no way a dog can open a door. right? no. i went to my supervisor and he tried to punish me. don't me to shut up to my

job. no one's in. listen to me. just right off as a darn the un samples fails to respond to our inquiries. but there is evidence to show that the u. s. military regularly covers all the civilian deaths told of drone strikes. in december 2021. the new york times reported on hidden pentagon records that revealed that the military has been responsible for thousands of civilian dance, with scant accountability ah whistles. brandon brian left the army more than a decade ago. he testified in the buddhist, talked the german parliament and received an award in germany for civil courage. he also spoke about the role played by the ramstein air base in the us drone wall. every day, every time that we launched an aircraft or handed it back, we would call ramstein air force base up to check the signal multiple times.

wouldn't even be once every mission, every single mission the ramstein ebay says a key control center for the drug war. does this make germany complicit in civilian deaths? yet, i mean 3 people from yemen thought so. they filed a lawsuit against the german government because a u. s. trone strike killed a relatives all civilians. the higher administrative court in munster ruled that the german government must take action to ensure the u. s. respects international law and using the ramstein air base and monitor us drone activities closely allow the next. but the next authority, the federal administrative court ruled that the german government only needed to ask the yo ass whether it's complying with international law at ramstein, the court argued among other things that no actual decisions are made in germany.

the bass merely provides technical assistance. but is it true that no decisions are made there? the united states africa command african is located in stuttgart. in an interview with german radio, an african spokesperson openly stated, the decisions on drones strikes in africa are made in the stuttgart headquarters. so this is taking for particular strikes, it is from the african command commander's purview or what are the strikes that african is conducting from germany in somalia with the consent of the government. the u. s. is fighting the militant group. i'll show bob the off shoot of al qaeda controls, parts of the country, and repeatedly carries out terrorist attacks. this rundown

district in mogadishu is now the home of kadijah ghetto, and her granddaughter fatima. they fled here from the east of the country. on the evening of february, the 2nd 2020. they were at home with their family. this took seacoast in that day. we had been to school our school. later on in the evening, we were having dinner when the missile had really all i knew was that my sister had been killed. oh, well actually with the name it destroyed my eye and also my name. it shouted. i lost a lot of blood. one of the girls was blown to pieces with me. she was killed by us drown kadijah ma hammock at our last time i site and her granddaughter fatima was hospitalized with severe injuries. after the attack african in stuttgart reported that an al shabani terrorist had been killed

were sheesh. the victim was not a terrorist, but a teenager, nato cu, so oma abaca. her uncle works as a journalist. when he 1st heard the report that the u. s. had killed a terrorist, angelica, he had no idea his own family had been targeted in the strike a well my land. dad that he bought to we had from african i was totally busily around the city to was that uh, 4 of my relatives who were that were targeted if it weren't for his campaign for the truth, the real victim would never have been named. almost half a year later,

under pressure from human rights organizations, the u. s. military admitted it had killed a civilian african is unwilling to talk to us. but in 2021, vice world news interviewed major general dak, vin anderson, the commander of special operations, command africa, at the time. any time there is a civilian casualties due to conflict, it's heartbreaking. and it's very frustrating is frustrating as a commander and as a father. when we do these strikes, there's a very deliberate intelligence process to confirm the target. and what i can say to that is we can't clean, perfect the we, we do hold ourselves accountable. and we do that very deliberately. although the u . s. military acknowledge the mistake kadijah and fatima have received no apology and no compensation to date. the us admit that 5 civilians have been killed in drones, strikes in somalia in the past 15 years, according to local media,

hundreds have in the past, the green party sharply criticized germany's involvement in the us. drone war is fight bush dunden. what kind of friendship is it? if this cooperation is not grounded in international law? this guy went to spoke of it got funded in 2019 the green party put forward a motion to the german parliament. no use at ramstein abbeys for killings in violation of international law. member of parliament. katya coil was the signatory idioms. and i'm thinking that the u. s. has violated international law with targeted killings and pakistan, game and, and somalia. even if the german government must no longer be content with ignorance, it has a duty to know life and what it does not know, it must investigate. this silence regarding our ally is not helping us or world

peace or our american friends. we need to speak openly. turning a blind eye is only making things worse. now, the greens are in government and county coil is minister of states at the federal foreign office. foreign minister on alina bab hawk declined on the request for an interview with a 2 month window. for scheduling reasons. katya coil went talk to us either about an issue she previously felt strongly about. her colleague toby, as lintner, has also refused our request for an interview. alina babble repeatedly, emphasizes that international law and human rights are at the heart of her foreign policy. i don't distinguish between weak as in china. i don't distinguish between ukrainians or persecuted, russian journalists and human rights defenders between these occurred that is the

strength of human rights in the visibility, no matter where you live in the world. so what is the green parties position now on german? his role in the us drone wall, if we were trying to find out from green politicians what the current position is on the drone war. and ramstein adorned langston's kidneys, not my area right now. the party leaders won't give us an interview. i got a letter to mr. clinton. what's the current position of the green party on the us drone war and ramstein, the green, some west, one gloucester mine, which i gave them was a ruling from the higher administrative court and minister, which i personally welcomed harbor. unfortunately, the federal administrative court room, differently it ruled that the government doesn't have to do more than asked questions for, as it was a young and legal with this movie asked the government,

you know, and i'll talk, keep asking. thanks mister dean. we sent the government a list of questions. the foreign ministry says that constant dialogue with the u. s, but the government has no information about exactly which you astro admissions are conducted by ramstein. the u. s. has repeatedly provided assurances that it abides by german law. is what government has always sent. so have the greens abandon the previous dance, is the party no longer calling for investigations of civilian deaths. a meeting about afghanistan is taking place at the foreign ministry. miss bam, up he once submitted a motion? no killing by ramstein in violation of international law. progress afterwards, real good. but afterwards, we're still not allowed to talk to his bank. the foreign office refers us to

a new member of parliament. mulash bella back. the settlements on degrees in 2019 the green submitted emotion, no use of ramstein abbeys for killing in violation of international law because it was the position to day anderson as we continued to support this demand, both as a party and as a parliamentary group and continued to condemn killings in violation of international law. b, it's my arm to drown. so any other weapon? and i also assume that the government will continue to advocate their sim, bilateral talks. i'm speaking the find that's on calling since we've had a green foreign minister. have questions been asked of the us before we calling before? if i was the question is not whether we ask questions, but how we deal with the consequences. and that's not my job to assess them. i dropped the letter of good walker, the consequences b. just that will be

a long list beyond the scope of the conversation. now, i must place in lieu of them because it would affect the diplomatic relations with the u. s, stuff we can assume. so ah, the greens jettisoning that principles because they failed powerless towards the u . s. or simply to avoid upsetting. and i, because clearly in light of the russian invasion of ukraine, germany is more aware that it has been for some time that the u. s. can provide military protection. but how credible is germany's commitment to human rights? if it applies different standards to different countries? the u. s. has been waging war on terra for more than 20 years, primarily with drowns, even if president joe biden has scaled down the drone war. he still threatens

strikes any time anywhere where it was cold over the horizon capabilities. which means we can strike chairs and targets without america boots on the ground. it's an ongoing war, and one that most people are barely aware of. but germany, a country committed to upholding human rights is involved ah, what do you, what do you get for $0.50 or $0.50 a lot with thinking cocktails? lumpkin, did you know? it costs 50 cents to feed one hungry child for one full day?

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