The United States government, the biggest terrorist organization in the world, who claim to be the leaders of freedom put a man born in New York now living in Syria as a journalist on a drone strike kill list based on metadata & algorithms.  So now they use AI to determine who’s a terrorist or not and add them to a list off people to be drone strike assassinated with no due process?  APPALLING!

The New York-born journalist living in Syria is suing the US government, claiming it put him on the drone Kill List. Born Darrell Lamont Phelps, Bilal Abdul Kareem grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, before moving to Syria as a reporter. But in 2016, Kareem, a US citizen, said he was targeted in a series of attacks before he says a source tipped him off that he was on America’s infamous ‘Kill List’, otherwise known as ‘Disposition Matrix,’ according to Rolling Stone.

Apparently set up under the Obama administration, it was run by a small team of security officials and the president, who met once a week to decide targets around the world who should be captured, interrogated, or assassinated by drone, a 2012 New York Times report stated. Stunned, Kareem appealed to Clive Stafford Smith, an attorney who founded London-based human rights organization called Reprieve.

Together they filed a complaint in district court in Washington, D.C., on March 30 2017, appealing to the U.S. government to take him off the Kill List. More than a year later, on May 1, 2018, Judge Rosemary Collyer heard the joint case of Kareem and Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan v. Donald J. Trump et al.

Drone strikes have been used to target militants in the Middle East since 9/11. Drones can be used for surveillance or more deadly missions. Pictured are the damaged buildings taken with a drone in Deraa, Syria July 13, 2017

The American Civil Liberties Union sued Barack Obama’s administration in 2015 over the White House’s secretive targeted-killing program. The lawsuit claimed the American public deserved to know more about the administration’s target list.

“The public should know who the government is killing and why it’s killing them,” said ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer in a statement at the time. “There’s no good reason why legal memos relating to the targeted-killing program should be secret in their entirety. Nor is there any legitimate justification for the government’s refusal to acknowledge individual strikes or to disclose civilian casualties or to disclose the procedures under which individuals are added to government ‘kill list.’”

Thousands of people have been killed in Pakistan by CIA drone strikes since 2004, and hundreds more have died in Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan as federal spending on drones has soared to over $4.1 billion from $350 million in 2001.

The process is also losing the human touch, as former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate in 2014 that the Kill List is based, at least in part, on metadata. The algorithm can flag someone as a target if they trigger too many checks, such as a military-aged man, someone giving orders or showing suspicious behavior in the wrong place.

Yemeni Victims of U.S. Military Drone Strike Get More Than $1 Million in Compensation

The Yemeni government paid the families of those killed or injured in a U.S. drone strike in 2013 more than $1 million, according to documents that provide new details on secret condolence payments seen as evidence that civilians with no ties to al-Qaeda were among the casualties.

The documents, which are signed by Yemeni court officials and victims’ relatives, record payouts designed to quell anger over a U.S. strike that hit vehicles in a wedding party and prompted a suspension of the U.S. military’s authority to carry out drone attacks on a dangerous al-Qaeda affiliate.

The records were provided to The Washington Post by Reprieve, a London-based human rights organization that has worked in Yemen to document civilian casualties of the U.S. drone campaign. Kat Craig, a legal director for the group, said the records undermine U.S. claims “that the victims of this drone attack were anything other than civilians.”

U.S. military officials have defended the attack and indicated that a subsequent investigation determined that al-Qaeda-linked operatives — and no civilians — were killed. LIES LIES AND MORE LIES! The US government (traitors within) is out of control.  How on earth can anyone say today, “I’m proud to be American.”?  How can one be proud when things like this are DONE IN OUR NAME?

Sources:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5972177/New-Yorker-Syria-sues-government-finding-hes-drone-kill-list.html

https://www.newsweek.com/targeted-government-cia-kill-list-includes-us-journalist-syria-lawsuit-577290