This is why I am against our government approving bombing SOVEREIGN NATIONS that we have not declared war with in order to kill "suspected" terrorists using our unmanned drones. We should be working together with foreign governments and allow their military to remove the "suspected" Islamic militant terrorists as they see fit.
Our U.S. drone program has killed innocent civilins abroad when targeting the "suspected" Islamic militant terrorists. We have been bombing Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia under the Obama administration and we have never declared war with these nations.
Now let me ask you this question... how would you feel if the Mexican government began flying unmanned drones into U.S. airspace and dropping bombs targeting "suspected" Mexican drug cartel members and killing Americans in the vicinity? We would be pretty pissed off wouldn't you agree? Do you honestly believe we would simply sit back and do nothing if Mexico started dropping bombs on our SOIL? Heck no, we would attack back right?!
Well that's Dr. Ron Paul's point when he mentions the GOLDEN RULE. He wasn't referring to the Islamic militant "terrorists". He was referring to us dropping bombs on SOVEREIGN NATIONS killing innocent civilians while hunting down those Islamic militants! We should be treating OTHER SOVEREIGN NATIONS the way we would want to be treated!
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The Star news
written by Staff
Friday Februar 3, 2012
PETALING JAYA: Jemaah Islamiyah leader Zulkifli Abdul Hir, a Malaysian militant high on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, was killed in an air strike in the Philippines.
Regional military commander Maj Gen Noel Coballes told news agencies that ground troops had confirmed the death of Zulkifli, famously known as Marwan, after a raid on a military stronghold in Jolo island, in the Mindanao region.
Fifteen militants were killed in the attack at about 3am yesterday, including fellow Jemaah Islamiyah militant Mohammad Ali @ Muawiyah and Abu Sayyaf leader Abu Pula.
Marwan, an engineer trained in the United States, was born in Muar, Johor, in 1966.
He was believed to be the head of the Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia terrorist organisation and one of the leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah, a group blamed for some of South-East Asia's deadliest terrorist attacks, including the 2002 Bali bombings, where more than 200 people were killed.
Marwan had been in the Philippines since August 2003 where he is believed to have conducted bomb-making training for the Abu Sayyaf Group.
In MANILA, AFP quoted the Philippine army as saying that Marwan, who had a US$5mil (RM15mil) FBI bounty on his head, was among three of South-East Asia's most-wanted militants killed in the attack.
The Philippine army, aided by US advisers, launched the bombing raid on a remote southern island in which 15 members of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah organisations died, military chiefs said.
“This is a big victory and it will have a very big impact on the capability of the terrorists,” Maj Gen Coballes said.
The US State Department's website said only four other people in the world had higher bounties for their capture than Zulkifli, and one of them is al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Filipino Abu Pula was also known as Dr Abu while Singaporean Muawiyah was another top name in Jemaah Islamiyah.
The Philippine military said it also killed Uma Jumdail, a core leader of Abu Sayyaf. Although no Philippine troops were on the ground, the military said it was sure that the three had been killed, based on reports from their intelligence sources.
Muawiyah and Marwan were believed to have been hiding out at Abu Sayyaf bases on remote, jungle-infested southern Philippine islands since 2003, according to the Philippine military and the US State Department website.
A US embassy spokesman in Manila said she had no immediate comment.
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