US extra-judicial executions

Tariq Khan Afridi

Jumada' al-Akhirah 09, 1433 2012-05-01

Letters To The Editor

by Tariq Khan Afridi (Letters To The Editor, Crescent International Vol. 41, No. 3, Jumada' al-Akhirah, 1433)

American officials never tire of lecturing others about how law-abiding they are.

“We do not do torture,” is an oft-repeated mantra of US officials in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. When confronted with such evidence, they say it is not torture, only “enhanced interrogation” techniques. Such verbal sophistry apart, the US has become a society of lawless hoodlums that indulge in extra-judicial executions through drone attacks in other countries: Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Innocent people are killed, all in name of the “War on Terror”. It is a war of terror.

Tariq Khan Afridi
Peshawar, Pakistan