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David Wise, in his essay "Why the Spooks Shouldn't Run Wars," referred to the 2002 incident in Yemen in which a CIA Predator drone fired a missile that vaporized a car carrying a U.S. citizen, alleged terrorist Kamal Derwish. Wise noted that Derwish had not been charged with or convicted of any crime and asked, "Where is the outrage?" Well, the terrorists have had their turn to play rough, and now it's our turn. If we plan to ask politely that each terrorist suspect outside the U.S. submit to questioning, we might as well give all terrorists...
...remote area of Yemen, a CIA Predator loosed a Hellfire missile that vaporized a car in which a top al- Qaeda leader, Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, was thought to be riding along with five other people, including an American citizen. The American, believed to be Kamal Derwish, was later described by Administration officials as the leader of an alleged al- Qaeda sleeper cell in New York State. The officials said he persuaded young men from Lackawanna, N.Y., a Buffalo suburb, to travel to Afghanistan for religious studies at locations that turned out to be terrorist training camps. Six members...
...Perhaps Derwish deserved the fate of the company he kept, or perhaps he was a certified bad guy. Nevertheless, an American citizen not charged or convicted of any crime was killed by a CIA Predator, targeted in cooperation with the Pentagon, and there was hardly a peep of protest in this country. Where is the outrage? Intelligence officials say killing an American with a Hellfire missile was perfectly fine because he was an "enemy combatant," a term that the government seems to apply freely these days. Besides, the CIA claims, it didn't know that an American...
Your article "They Didn't Know What Hit Them" [WORLD, Nov. 18] described how in Yemen an American Predator drone fired a missile by remote control into a car carrying suspected terrorists and killed them. You said, "U.S. officials think" that one of the six killed was Kamal Derwish, "a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell" in the U.S. Another victim, "according to Yemeni officials," was a former bodyguard of bin Laden's. Apparently, the U.S. now kills without judicial trials and without questions. Are we nothing more than technically...
...remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen. He was not just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., outside Buffalo. The putative American in al-Harethi's entourage traveled under the name Ahmed Hijazi, an alias used by Derwish. A positive identification may be difficult...