Monday, April 18th, 2016

I’m On the Kill List. This Is What It Feels Like to Be Hunted By Drones

Author: Malik Jalal
Source: The Independent (U.K.)
Publication Date: Tuesday 12 April 2016
Link: I’m On the Kill List. This Is What It Feels Like to Be Hunted By Drones

Stephan: If you saw yesterday's edition you saw the piece I ran on drones. Here now is an account of what it is like to live in the world of drones. I don't think anything else we are doing is breeding hate for American more effectively than this.

There have been 255 drone strikes on Pakistan since 2004
Credit: AP

I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive.

I don’t want to end up a “Bugsplat” – the ugly word that is used for what remains of a human being after being blown up by a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone. More importantly, I don’t want my family to become victims, or even to live with the droning engines overhead, knowing that at any moment they could be vaporized.

I am in England this week because I decided that if Westerners wanted to kill me without bothering to come to speak with me first, perhaps I should come to speak to them instead. I’ll tell my story […]

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