"...hit by a CIA missile, contradicting the government's claim

[rman]

that the militant accidentally blew himself up with explosives..."

(i figure this post won't survive in GD, so i post it here)


Democracy Now
Monday, June 26th, 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1349226

Media, Human Rights Groups Call For Inquiry Into Khan Slaying
In Pakistan, media and human rights groups are calling for an independent inquiry into the abduction and killing of journalist Hayatullah Khan. Khan’s body was discovered earlier this month, six months after he was abducted in Waziristan. He was found handcuffed and with gunshot wounds in his back. Khan’s family has blamed Pakistan’s intelligence service for his disappearance. In December, Khan unearthed evidence that a wanted militant had been killed by a CIA missile -- contradicting the government’s claim the militant accidentally blew himself up with explosives. Khan was kidnapped shortly after he published his findings.

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Then go see "Syriana", a movie based on the book "See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism" by Robert Baer.
http://syrianamovie.warnerbros.com/

There's a scene in it that depicts a car in a convoy being blown up by a missile fired from a remote controlled drone. The target is a small-time oil sheik who doesn't want to play ball with US oil corporations but rather wants the local population to benefit from the oil wealth.

Judging by the damage that it leaves: car is gone, adjacent cars heavily damaged, crater in the road - it could just as well have been a powerful car bomb. You don't exactly see these missiles coming, and it isn't a secret that the technology is there.

[mirandapriestly]

1. There have been a number of reports

by mainstream media that U.S. military/intelligence has killed a number of civilians, then posed them as "suicide bombers". I know your point is that there are drones which fire missiles, but I wanted to point out that smaller scale false flag operations occur all the time in Iraq. ( I guess that is what you would call them). I don't know why people can't see how manufactured a lot of this "terrorism" is.
As for the drones/ missiles are you talking about The Pentagon or the World Trade Center?

[BuddyYoung]

2. MOST terrorism is state sponsored. Especially, anything more than

a single person walking into a room and pulling a chord. Anything BIG Time is almost always state sponsored. I don't care what anyone says, OBL simply did not have access to the resources that were used in carrying out the attacks of 911. None of the Osamas did. Fat one, skinny one, dead one etc..

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[rman]

4. My point is that we can only guess how much of the suicide bombers

are not really suicide bombers at all. I agree that there are other means to create the impression of a suicide attack - and surely a fair number actually are suicide bombers. I'm pretty sure it is possible to get people crazy enough to do that - see "Paradise Now" http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=1314 .

But although i had thought of the possibility of missiles being used for it, i had not realized it might be more common then i had figured. Short of a thorough and transparent forensic investigation, in many cases the results of a missile would be indistinguishable from a suicide- or car bomb. I'm not specifically referring to the events on 9-11.