really it's weak foreign policy was that is why i'm not inclined to suspect the obama administration of pursuing some secret plan to directed against iran. my name is brandon bryant i'm twenty seven year old better in born here born in the zoo. i was very much an introvert growing up single mother two sisters. of female cousins. so i was pretty much alone all the time and i grew up with books and comic books and heroes in villa and i kind of grew up optimistic idealistic. i grew up in a christian home i wasn't necessarily to patriotic i was more of the fact. good guys vs bad guys making decisions and doing the right thing i decided to get in the

air force. because. i was racking up college debt and i didn't know what else to do so when i was talking to the air force recruiter is like. you know those guys that sit in the operations center for james bond and gather the intelligence he needs to do his mission and i was like yeah i know those guys like a.q. and all them he's like yeah you'll be one of those guys and i was like it's pretty bad getting into the drone program was weird introduction is like this is what we do we kill people and break things that is what our job is like i worried about it you know i can think can i do this can i actually kill someone could i actually pull the trigger i mean i'm not actually pulling the trigger and guiding the missile in but it's essentially the same thing i don't i don't see a difference we typically flew in iraq between eight thousand and twelve thousand

feet and then if you're in afghanistan we flew between eighteen and twenty five thousand feet. and depending on atmospherics if it was a completely clear day you would definitely get a good picture depending on how close you were you could probably read the license plate on someone's car we can see something it's simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players and you can see the ball what. look the muzzle of the butt of the so a little hole in the still a. little worse than that though your. head i meant for the little. meal the better but a little warm. it would have been seven or eight trick cold sixteen year old terry very treacherous

to right through potential telephone hotspots. and of course on to try and survive . i it was the first time that the international media the drone victims tried to alice and the general public came together was held in a five star hotel the trouble of the spoken terms of political implication was how they frauds and the drone victims spoke about personal story it's. what. we. now know i think i might find out where. i learned. about this. stuff. that. it was

a bad thing to get the voice of the victims of don't attack out to the general public as well as the rest of the way not just the main goal we were going to use the media to try and establish who had been killed and also why where and how because of the inaccessibility of stalin it's very very hard to compile any kind of credible evidence so evidence that other people see as credible that was part of the e-mail but i use this conference in islamabad we called it a j j a guy is a traditional tribal battle that's what people are not ever used to settle the dispute but i think i think i think i think i think i've. got one stage i came from some young boy i read concedes when i was talking to terry one of the first things he did was he handed me his cousin's student id card and i looked at it i looked back at terry and i noticed that he was crying. he

started to tell me the story of his cousin who had been killed from a drone strike he'd come to juggle primarily to inform us a little bit more about what happened to his cousin and to people in his local village and find out how to stop mccain and we sat together all day we ate together at lunch time we left together we became friends very close stream intelligence and only to be around he had no sense of humor he was fascinated by photography and intrigued by western music mentioning artists and one that sprang to mind was maybe gaga starts to talk about trying strikes in his village how he was unable to sleep at nights he was scarce he was worried about his family his friends terry was traumatized he wanted to talk about how he was affected by drone attacks and basically to give the message that the people of missouri stand want justice

against the killings of innocent civilians under john attack that are operated by the us oh thank you. thank you thank you so that's. what we did. that's. how i. think they. felt that. i. was pretty good either. and the people who are gathered that adopted a resolution condemning strikes i think. the outcome of the jirga was a big success because it allowed people to come together to listen to stories and come to a common resolution. then we went to get the terai and tariq aziz traveled there

with us. travel towards the rally and tariq sat next to me he seemed relaxed he was laughing with his friends terry and everybody else collapsed and they went to the rally. i. i happened to time he came to support a giant rally on sunday the third test against the united states going to back in office not. i i i i i. i. i i i i i have to back tariq aziz and the of the attendees return to their homes the return

money your future here is that leadership you feel you were. you somebody was your husband all right it. should be a mission that i look at seeking a look at those saved by the by mitch might i thought about that. that's got to go to those who are in the into the going to get it would want to know that i'm going to. i'm not actually. going to baghdad. this time but i was coming in and i met a man that said the man sees him because he is. and you stand on.

your doorstep off from the. so you need to stop rough. seas so that in the senate in the senate votes or do not have the most outspoken the day. to destroy it i go to call the. funny even though you know i went out to very few days nature after i'd gone going to get into the number one and i thought i was that way when we found out he may have been talking code a result of that you have received e-mail from shows not. the e-mail simply said tyreke as the heading and i opened it instantly. to my shock i found

out tariq been murdered by drawing strike and that was a shock. oh i was a possible were there was he was he doing this like completely unbelievable and motivated others were not. diligent that it used it to the what are we going to. get on that i.v. . what are they gonna. wouldn't mind initial thoughts were this wasn't happening this was just a dream we didn't think that the sixteen year old kid who wanted to talk about football would be killed in a drone attack the same week that we'd met him. why did it happen why was terri killed. if the u.s. had any information that tara cozies was part of a criminal organization was planning to carry out attacks states and our federal law enforcement agents she had them working with the authorities of pakistan to arrest him and one witness tossed the question why the government was not able to

arrest or you can question and this is islam bob i'm talking once a capital of the country population is a brilliant people i'm going to. juggle with a group public events to listen to big talent was asked times why it was an open event terror because ease was plainly visible to hundreds and hundreds of people. talking to reporters everything about him that the authorities could have wanted to know about his location and about his recent activities were known to the united states. so the extremely easy for them to approach him sit down and talk to him or for that matter put him in jail but instead the cia chose to go and kill them without giving him the opportunity to give his side of whatever that is that they thought that he had done this no evidence there whatsoever and they're giving him no no i was that is no judge and there's no jury. our

preference is always to capture if we can because we can gather intelligence but a lot of the terrorist networks that target the united states the most dangerous ones operate in very remote regions and it's very difficult to capture them but what we can discern from the pattern of strikes is that essentially pakistan's been declared a no capture zone that automatically capture is not considered feasible if you just look at the numbers there have been dramatically more people killed in recent years that have been captured they've you know killed maybe three to three to four thousand people in the. targeted killings and they've captured a handful. rise of the islamic state or isis in the middle east is said to reorder political realities in the region the west feel colonial agenda for the arab world is coming to an end it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with

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choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that in the light choose the access to your office. or a note cia agents and reserve stone so they rely on local people and this is where the fundamental news is these people are looking for you for money and that reliance is utterly misplaced and what you see and terex case and it just pains me to say no without any real room for dispute that there was someone in that room when we were having our jerk who was an informant for the u.s. intelligence services and that person picked out tarik i can tell you as a matter of fact the target was not an extremist and the way you know what

intelligence they relied on to kill someone is what they released immediately after the killing and in that case the war militants were killed and of course we knew that two kids were killed. that's how it happened. i asked the cia about the strike and their response was on that day no child was killed in fact the adult males for supporting al qaeda is still a taishan network so despite all that these technological assets and human assets or not there we don't know and i think there is a lot of room for error. killing terry was clearly breaking the law in fact it was further than that it was just murder to wreak aziz was one of almost three hundred children killed why are these children being killed this is a targeted focused effort at people who are on

a list. of terrorists the killing of treat disease has to call into question the credibility of the government's kill list methodology the vast majority of the strikes here are against people whose identities the government doesn't know we do not know where targeted killings are authorized to be used we do not know the specific identities of people who have been killed the constitution empowers the president to protect the nation from any imminent threat of attack so how can two rica's e's a sixteen year old boy possibly meet that definition of imminent threat the justice department has defined an imminent threat based not on whether the threat is specific in the media which is what imminent means so that people pose imminent threats regardless of whether they're actually engaged in any ongoing attack against the united states we have a responsibility to defend this country and that's what we're doing killing terry as it made us any safer. it's taking away young boys and. straw to family

in a community under the interpretations we've heard from the administration and members of congress drone strikes could go on indefinitely against enemies that keep morphing into new enemies the killing should be the exception not the rule to wreak as he should never have died the u.s. should not have been using military force to attack innocent civilians let alone children. i would question a policy that says it is just a minute and even sensible to assassinate a sixteen year old boy he was trying to be part of the constructive way forward. there's two guys in front and guy in the rear. walking up this path and. two guys in front are discussing like you can see them having a nap conversation they've got something slung over their shoulders which look to

be. weapons mountainous portions of afghanistan are not so unsimilar from the mountainous regions of montana and seeing people with guns walking around the back end of stand. people are walking with guns and mountains of montana. immediately confirmed are weapons confirm your clear target so place the target at their feet and missiles a way of getting off three of them. but the guy in the back it ends up cutting his leg off above the knee and severing his from or artery. and he's rolling around he's holding it and he's it's like rowing around but you can see where is leg is missing in the blood is spurting out in landing on the ground and it's crewing it's hot it's

a hot pool of blood and cooling and we keep our eyes on in. watch the guy become the same colors the ground that he pled out on. i can almost see is facial expression he was. going to see is mouth open in crying out. maybe cursed. or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for you know what his last thoughts were but it wasn't it wasn't pretty whatever it was it was shock and trauma were probably ringing in he was bleeding out and he was. in agony. i didn't know how to react no one teaches you how to react they teach you how to do it. there's no big nor ignore the reaction part. i

wished i never contributed further to that. for any struggle to take there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can see. the vast majority of those killed in drone strikes. over ninety eight percent have not been high value targets. of signature strikes make indiscriminate killing you know a policy what they end up with this is what i described earlier the signature strikes moved back to a greater reliance on the signature strikes a signature strike is a drone strike that isn't based on the identity of the target i obtained. classified u.s. intelligence reports on drone strikes what the documents reveal are the way that

signature strikes are put together and these are strikes against people who fit in fit the signature of what the u.s. government says is a terrorist maybe they are walking into the compound with guns maybe they're getting in trucks and they're moving to the afghan border and drone operators seated thousands of miles away from the area affected are looking at video feeds assessing those video feeds and based on that making decisions about whether or not someone who's walking through the community is a suspected terrorist you conclude on the basis of the behavior that they are a terrorist and you kill them. in number of cases that i looked at the cia wasn't sure who they were hitting. the agency became convinced that it had gotten so good at watching from above that it could distinguish different groups it could distinguish whether

a terrorist leader was at a certain location but there is room for a lot of misunderstanding when you're doing something like conduct. signature strikes a drone strike is only as good as the intelligence that is behind the actual strike anyone who's worked in intelligence knows that intelligence doesn't quote unquote prove anything it's not evidence so drones hit what the aim to hit but if they're aimed at the wrong people then civilians are killed former u.s. ambassador cameron munter had said that one man's combatant was another man's chump who went to a meeting when leon panetta was director of the cia somebody memorably said if he if leon sees a few guys doing jumping jacks on the ground he thinks that's a terrorist training camp classified documents suggest u.s. officials don't always know exactly how many or who they're killing they don't always have precise side id a parent a targeting of people whose identity is not known they may not be as precise as

many u.s. officials claim as soon as those signature starts begin we start to see another steep escalation in civilian casualties so that's what happens when success stories go along with numbers of people don't because they don't do is being killed or most of the drone strikes. on march seventeenth two thousand and eleven target was held to help to resolve a dispute over a chromite mine. if there is a feud getting out of hand. and everyone has a chance we could really use a democracy and that is a mechanism to make sure the data stability in society. which i listen up with like a subset a must do was an awesome ulick i well as they got. there what

a marriage with a lot of great. they have. the jurga in an open space in a bus depot in broad daylight tribal elders informed the pakistani military brig did go good was in command of the brigade on the border so he is a key commando the brigadier knew about the jew got ten days in advance his own army camp was ten kilometers from the site of the jericho so this was an open public event that pretty much everyone in the community and surrounding area knew about. the target begins in the morning at about ten o'clock and after that party and it's yourself. the devil must be you and everybody among the muslim but i was about to get i want to tell about a muslim who was dramas like i just went over steps will go up above the windows so

sure. there's smoke and debris and chaos it was a huge explorers of those people in the shop and the nearby if you have. a place iran or. but if they don't show any news or data fresh from isaac is the most bloody one how does a move the comedian michelle walk the modem then is that. their own defense or one of them a plot of on they were. built of which are more got them set up or there's more of a label. it's a bit i'm going to national i'm a horrible deluded let's try to show how the media so you will build.

up some of what is really a strain of them. but that it is that i like is that from go go out of the deposition of go where there's an artist that leap that that was the mark of above one of. the last of who are leaders on a single day it's devastating for them. it's devastating terms of leadership it's devastating in terms of the moral compass instead of sitting in economic terms as well. doesn't mean about are you didn't look son will probably get a good kick in a store the hulk you mustn't ever have. the hulk or that half a outcry made about

a book i don't know that that you have had the what a lucky you electrons lot of this drone strike is coming at the end of a series of drone strikes it's feeding into the sense of no one is safe no way soon nothing is safe even a jewel got the most cherished the most treasured institution of the tribal areas so we cannot even sit down and resolve an issue that is not see if any. three months after forty two civilians started john brennan stood up and said nearly for the past year there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency for cision of the capability of unable to develop high level authorities tell the american public that there have been no civilian casualties so. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going here in iraq other big story headlines same time there's

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