Posted on 06/06/2012 2:09:46 PM PDT by mdittmar
(Reuters) - The brother of al Qaeda's second-in-command, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike, said Washington's use of the remote-controlled weapons is inhumane and makes a nonsense of its claims to champion human rights.
U.S. officials said on Tuesday that Libyan-born al Qaeda operative Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan, in what was described as a major blow to the militant group.
The attack is likely to fuel an increasingly fierce debate about the legality and morality of the drones, which have become one of the chief U.S. weapons against al Qaeda but which opponents say stretch the definition of the legitimate use of lethal force.
"The United States talks human rights and freedoms for all, but the method they used to kill him is savage," Abu Bakr al-Qayed, brother of al-Libi, told Reuters on Wednesday in a telephone interview.
"The way the Americans killed him is heinous and inhumane," he said, speaking from the town of Wadi Otba, south of the Libyan capital. "We are in the 21st century and they claim to be civilized and this is how they take out people."
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But of course if capture is too risky, it is more humane to kill them, than to let them go on to kill more innocents.
...and attacking women & children and using them as shields?
Alas, it wasn't satire.
Maybe the family would feel better knowing that that man who ordered the death won the nobel peace prize.
If they can find all of the pieces I suppose the 72 virgins will have to sew him back together again.
GRRRRRREAT news, GRRRRRREAT thread!
it’s quick........(language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUp-mMfSkKs&feature=related
but I like the joy it brings...
INHUMANE????
Talk to me after you have seen all the footage of the 9/11 attacks on innocent civilians.
Maybe, just maybe, the families of these crummy-assed lunatic murderers should talk them out of indiscriminately killing people? STFU, you loser moozlum creeps. I hope somebody flies a plane full of explosives into your shabby mud-hut house.
Thanks. It was the first thing that entered my mind when I saw the title to the article.
"Inhumane"? You want to talk about something inhumane, let's talk about all of the death and destruction that's been committed by the radical Islamic jihad in the name of their 'religion'.
My blood just about boiled, looking at that article.
War is inhumane. Televised beheadings of Jews is inhumane. 911 was inhumane.
Stop waging war and go back into your 7th century holes and the war will stop.
ping
If an Islamic terrorist is killed by a Hellfire missile fired from a drone, that is “inhumane”.
However, if an Islamic terrorist kills 50 people with a suicide bomb, then that is “humane”?
There's something about this reasoning that I just cannot get my reason around here.
Inhumane?
Inhumane would have been incinerating every thing within
ten miles of the site of your brother at the time.
Still there is a place for disproportionate response.
I’m at loss for words,so many possible jokes here...
Wait until we send the Terminators.
not to mention stoning, amputations, maiming, and honor killing
yes sharia is “progressive”
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