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Oct 05, 2015akirakato rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is an eye-opening and profoundly shocking documentary originally released as a documentary film in 2013, based on the book:"Dirty wars---the world is a battlefield" by Jeremy Scahill. Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American U.S. citizen, was killed on 30 September 2011, by an air attack carried out by the Joint Special Operations Command. After several days of surveillance of Awlaki by the CIA, armed drones took off from a new, secret American base in the Arabian Peninsula, crossed into northern Yemen and unleashed a barrage of Hellfire missiles at al-Awlaki's vehicle. Samir Khan, a Pakistani-American al-Qaeda member and editor of the jihadist Inspire magazine, also reportedly died in the attack. The combined CIA/JSOC drone strike was the first in Yemen since 2002 and was part of an effort by the CIA to duplicate in Yemen the covert war which has been running in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Yemen government banned military drone operations after a series of botched drone strikes by JSOC, the last of which was a December 2013 drone strike that killed numerous civilians at a wedding ceremony. Despite a ban on military drone operations, the Yemen government allowed the CIA drone operations to continue. The drone also attacked Anwar al-Awlaki's 16-years-old son to pieces---literally vanished the innocent boy from the Earth, though the USA has never declared war against Yemen. Oy, yes, it's a dirty war on terror, and almost anything goes. The US government kills even its own citizen without any warrant or charge.