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Why would it be "bad" for Iran to track people this way, but there is not so much concern for the NSA tracking people this way? The USA has already killed peop

Why would it be "bad" for Iran to track people this way, but there is not so much concern for the NSA tracking people this way? The USA has already killed people based on trivial amounts of data such as, "A had dinner with B who is C's relative. Thus even though A is US citizen in a foreign country, we will blow up his car with a Hellfire missile fired from a drone because C is a known terrorist."

x0x0 12y ago
Terrorist: defn: person killed by drone strike
- belorn 12y ago
  It was the official policy during the bush administration (unknown if still current policy). It resulted in very low numbers when calculating civilian deaths. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...)
  - mkaziz 12y ago
    Right now a terrorist is a man between ages 18 and I think 45. If you have brown skin and are at that age and are killed in a drone strike in Pakistan, the US gov't announces you as a terrorist killed. :)
eurleif 12y ago
>The USA has already killed people based on trivial amounts of data such as, "A had dinner with B who is C's relative. Thus even though A is US citizen in a foreign country, we will blow up his car with a Hellfire missile fired from a drone because C is a known terrorist." Do you have a link for that?
- junto 12y ago
  The US also has a rather repugnant taste for targeting funerals, weddings and the rescuers of such attacks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/yemeni-victims-of-us-military-drone-strike-get-more-than-1million-in-compensation/2014/08/18/670926f0-26e4-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/yemeni... http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/obama-terror-drones-cia-tactics-in-pakistan-include-targeting-rescuers-and-funerals/ http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/obama-terror... http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/world/asia/us-drone-strikes-are-said-to-target-rescuers.html?_r=0 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/world/asia/us-drone-str...

x0x0 12y ago

Terrorist: defn: person killed by drone strike

belorn 12y ago
It was the official policy during the bush administration (unknown if still current policy). It resulted in very low numbers when calculating civilian deaths. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...)
- mkaziz 12y ago
  Right now a terrorist is a man between ages 18 and I think 45. If you have brown skin and are at that age and are killed in a drone strike in Pakistan, the US gov't announces you as a terrorist killed. :)

eurleif 12y ago

>The USA has already killed people based on trivial amounts of data such as, "A had dinner with B who is C's relative. Thus even though A is US citizen in a foreign country, we will blow up his car with a Hellfire missile fired from a drone because C is a known terrorist." Do you have a link for that?

junto 12y ago
The US also has a rather repugnant taste for targeting funerals, weddings and the rescuers of such attacks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/yemeni-victims-of-us-military-drone-strike-get-more-than-1million-in-compensation/2014/08/18/670926f0-26e4-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/yemeni... http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/obama-terror-drones-cia-tactics-in-pakistan-include-targeting-rescuers-and-funerals/ http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/obama-terror... http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/world/asia/us-drone-strikes-are-said-to-target-rescuers.html?_r=0 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/world/asia/us-drone-str...