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Related: About this forumTYT: What If Trayvon Had Died in a Drone Strike?
"Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was placed on a CIA "kill list" last year, died in a targeted strike in Yemen on 30 September that also killed Samir Khan, an alleged propagandist for al-Qaida, in the Arabian Pensinsula. Al-Awlaki's teenage son, Abdulrahman, was killed in a separate strike 200 miles away in which six others died two weeks later...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur ties this in to President Obama's reaction to the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman.
*Read more here from Karen McVeigh in The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/18/us-citizens-drone-strike-deaths
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TYT: What If Trayvon Had Died in a Drone Strike? (Original Post)
The Northerner
Aug 2012
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chille1
(73 posts)1. Have no moral comps at All !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the most ridiculous comparison on the Internet have you know clue how much pain is caused by Simone in your
family being murdered,and to use this tragedy to spark conversation about another death or deaths you know nothing about.is why this country is on the brink of implosion think before you write!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)4. there is no one named Simone in my family
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. good question
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)3. Shark, meet hoop. nt
Enrique
(27,461 posts)5. we are all George Zimmerman
we are all standing our ground.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)6. That kid so doesn't look dangerous.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)7. "What If Trayvon Had Died in a Drone Strike?"
He was.
Zimmerman was a drone of racism.