[LINK] OT: bin Laden is dead

[Kim Holburn]

On 2011/May/09, at 3:08 PM, Darrell Burkey wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 14:40, kim holburn wrote:
>> So far in Pakistan the US has killed 35,000 people
>> and the United Nations? independent investigator on extrajudicial
>> killings has been investigating them for it.  I doubt whether anything
>> will come of it though.  How many people will the US kill before they
>> consider 9/11 to be avenged?  It's well over the 3,000 mark now.
> 
> Were these 35,000 people killed by the US (and I assume troops from
> other countries) innocent citizens going about their day-to-day business
> or soldiers engaged in war? Not that even one death is reasonable, but I
> would be interested to know.

Those 35,000 people were killed by missiles launched from US drones in Pakistan.  That's not counting anyone killed by troops, airstrikes from manned craft etc nor people not killed in Pakistan.


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