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signed up big time for i am loans wow putting your country into massive debt with foreign entities now that's nationalistic and would you think ukrainian nationalists would put ukrainians into power all over the regions of ukraine well think again because money sure trumps ethnicity what it comes to the two thousand and fourteen governor's line up and most importantly of all how can nationalists want to join the e.u. which is lefty liberal paradise where patriotic movements are the black sheep of the continent so my dear detractors who write me letters just what sort of nationalists revolution are you so proud of i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion. this is about making the business survive.
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corporations don't love the parisians don't eat for persons have no feeling. corporations don't care about you or me corporations only care about profit. people come to untouched forests and leave massive bleeds for the sake come on. we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moon. my name is brandon bryant i'm twenty seven year old veteran was born here born in the zoo. i was very much an introvert growing a single mother two sisters. lot of female cousins. so i
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was pretty much alone all the time and i grew up with books and comic books and heroes in villain and i kind of grew up optimistic idealistic. i grew up in a christian home i wasn't necessarily too 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 and he said yeah you'll be one of those guys and i was like. it's pretty bad getting into the drone program was weird the introduction is like this
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is what we do we kill people and break things that is what our job is like i worried about it you know i got like can i do this can i actually kill someone could i actually pull the trigger i mean i'm not actually pulling the trigger i'm 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 it was a completely clear day you 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 as simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players and you can even see the ball what. the look the muzzle of the so with the hole in the still a. little worse than that though your.
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good eye letter to the president will. be a. meal the better but a little warm. it would have been seven or eight hour trip would sixteen year old terry be treacherous to write three potential telephone hotspots. and of course on to try and survive. i it was the first time that the international media the drone victims tribal elders and the general public came together was held in a five star hotel the trouble of the spoken terms of political implications how
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they frauds and the drone victims spoke about personal story it's. legal. now now i think i might find out we're going to. learn something 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 because 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 the with aristotle 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
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i j a guy is a traditional tribal that that's what people are not ever used to settle the dispute but i think i think i think i think i think i. have one stage i came from so young boy terry concedes when i was talking to terry one of the first things that 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 in 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 wanted 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
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maybe god he started to talk about drone strikes in his village how he was unable to sleep at nights he was scarce he was worried about his family his friends terry who 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 attacks that are operated by the u.s. oh thank you. thank you thank you so. worried . because i. think they. felt. that. i. was pretty good
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either. and the people who are gathered that adopted a resolution condemning this writes i think. the outcome of the joker 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 walking with his friends terry and everybody else got out and they went to the rally. i. i i have to danny's came to support a giant rally on sunday the protest against the united states going to back in office not. i i i
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i i i. i. i. i i i to back tariq aziz and you know the attendees return to their homes the return money your future years and years you feel you were. you somebody was your husband all right it. should be a mission that i look at a thing a look at they say a thing about the body which might i thought with that. that got to go to those who are in the into the going or didn't want to know that i'm so good. i'm
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not actually. going to baghdad. this time of the coming winter and i would've made it sent to menzies him because he was. just that. your dearest offer and i thank. you to stop loss i. see so that in the sight i miss the most that i have to do about. the most outspoken of day. to this day that i go to called. the number you know i
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went out to meet a few days nature after i'd gone going to the number one and i thought i was that way when we found out he had been tough on cold days off of that year i received email from shows not the email simply said tariq as the heading and i opened the instant me. to my shock i found out tariq being murdered by drawing strike and that was a shock move like oh i was it possible we were there was he was he doing this like completely unbelievable how motivated others were not. religious but accused of the weatherly going to. get on that id. what are they gonna we 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
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a drone attack the same week that we'd met him. why did it happen why was terry 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 been working with the authorities in pakistan to arrest him and one reason that's toss the question why the government was not able to arrest or even question him this is islam by the talk amongst the capital of the country population is a brilliant people i'm not. sure it was a real public event if you listen to the big tower it was asked why it was an open event terror because ease was plainly visible to hundreds and hundreds of people. who talked with reporters everything about him that the authorities could have wanted to know about his location and about his recent activities were known to the
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united states. certainly 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 his 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 captures around 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 three to four
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thousand people in the. targeted killings. and they've captured a handful. it's like you don't want the bullets to stop. because it's like a duck duck duck duck back back back back up mode so it's it's almost like there's a beat the blue and then you just see the big sound that's like the base. of the tried to. people going to. want to get much more interesting taking every minute.
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her no cia agents and reserves so they were. lie 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 this. 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 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 know 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
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males for supporting this so attention network so despite all of 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 terri was clearly breaking the law effects it was further than 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 active 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
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president to protect the nation from any imminent threat of attack so how can two rica's ease 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 media attack against the united states we have a responsibility to defend this country and that's what we're doing killing terry hasn't made us any safer. it's taken away young boys. it's destroyed a 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
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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 man is portions of afghanistan are not so unsimilar from the mountainous regions of montana and seeing people with guns walking around the mountains of afghanistan.
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people are walking with guns in the mountains of montana but as soon as we get eyes on him immediately confirmed are weapons confirm your clear target so place the target at their feet and missiles away and getting off three of them. but the guy in the back it ends up cutting his leg. above the knee and severing his for more artery. and he's rolling around holding it and he says 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 cooling it's hot it's a hot pool of blood and cooling and we keep our eyes on and. watch the guy become the same colors the ground that he pled out on. i can almost see is facial expression it was. a go see
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is mouth open in crying out. maybe cursed. or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. 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
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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 back to a greater reliance on these 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
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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 conducting. 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
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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 strikes begin we start to see another steep escalation in civilian casualties so that's what happens when success stories go wrong numbers of people down because they don't who is being killed in most of the drone strikes.
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on march seventeenth two thousand and eleven the 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 to speak and really is a democracy and that is a mechanism to make sure they do stability in society. which i listen up with like a subset a must do was an awesome well as they got. there but a marriage with a lot of great look. they held. 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
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a key commando the brigadier knew about the just got ten days in advance his own army camp was ten kilometers from the site of the jirga so this was an open public event that pretty much everyone in the community and surrounding area you were about. the target begins in the morning at about ten o'clock and after that point and it's your cells. that eval must get you and i was among the muslims but i was about to get back to the middle of the taliban with lenders dramas i mean when there was some sort of a bubble of the windows social. there's smoke and debris and chaos it was a huge explorers of. people in the shop nearby the rush of bliss i am.
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but you told my son because i don't share the news or data fresh from isaac is the most bloody one how does a move the comedian mashallah the modem then is that the demo depends to him is a move a plot a bundle. they move a lot 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 to meter so you build. up some of what is really a strain of them. but that it is that i like is that from go go rather be
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a professional go where there's an artist that leap that that was the mark of a bottom of. the loss of form of the universe on a single day it's devastating for them. it's devastating in terms of leadership it's devastating in terms of the moral compass instead of sitting in economic terms as well. doesn't mean about oh you didn't look son will probably get a good kick in a store the. the hulk or that f.a. i'll talk about a book i don't know called the cut you have 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
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so we cannot even sit down and resolve an issue that is not safe any. three months after forty two civilians story john brennan stood up and said for the past year there hasn't been a single collateral that 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. history has never really dead as long as it's with us the start of the first world war one hundred years ago is a case in point in numerous ways the beginning in conclusion of that conflict shapes our world today. we speak your language will not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish more masses to you breaking news but we turn to angles the stories.
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profit. people come to untouched forests and leave massively for the sea come on. we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moon. this is art to international reporting this school is shelled in east ukraine as the army attacks the city of the console of the resistance that follows artillery attacks to their another regional which left multiple civilian casualties. russian citizens killed by shell fired from ukraine moscow warns of heavy consequences but kiev denies attacking russian territory also.
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