3-Year-Old Child’s Skull Crushed at Israeli Checkpoint
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 01. May 2006, 1351hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in Israel, Media, Palestine, Terrorism, War // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
As usual, the news which you don’t see in Mainstream media. It is not an Israeli boy, not a Martyrdom attack on an Israeli crowed… no, you won’t miss these.
Mainstream media did not think this story was worth covering, after all, it’s only another Palestinian child murdered by the Israeli occupation’s “benign” policy of military checkpoints. [Hat tip: Sam]
3-Year-Old Child’s Skull Crushed at Israeli Checkpoint
HAIFA, April 29, 2006 (WAFA)-A three-year-old girl was killed at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank city of Ramallah, her mother told WAFA on Saturday.
The little child Rafeda Thaer, of Kufr Kanna in Israel, was accompanying, last Sunday, her mother and three brothers to pay a visit to her imprisoned father in Nafha Israeli jail. The Israeli occupation’s Gate of Kharibtha checkpoint, west of Ramallah, shut [on] her head and crushed her skull.
Her mother, Jihan Aqeela said: “We stopped at the Kharibtha checkpoint inside a car for more than one hour. Rafeda wanted to go to bathroom. We got off the car and as we were passing the checkpoint, its huge Gate suddenly shut up against Rafeda’s head. She was instantly bleeding from her head and eyes and went in a coma . An ambulance rushed to the checkpoint and took Refada to Hospital, but she died two days later.”
What is worth covering for the mainstream media? One could ask. “Movie star LEONARDO DiCAPRIO refuses to be deterred by reports his girlfriend BAR REFAELI secretly got married in her native Israel to avoid military service. Israeli women aged between 18 and 20 are obliged to serve unless they’re orthodox, disabled or married.”
Also, don’t miss the IOF probes huge sex scandal: “35 IOF soldiers at Air Force base suspected of raping, sexually assaulting 14-year-old girl.”
Last but not least: “American students fly to Israel to support wounded classmate.”
PS. No links for the last three worthy news, intentionally. If you are restless to read more, Google them!
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May 1st, 2006 at 3:28 pm
There is one strange thing in this terrible story.
If they went from Kufr Kanna in Israel to visit the father at the Nafha jail which is also in Israel, why did they go through the Ramallah checkpoint in the West Bank?
Geographically it doesn’t make sense.
I have written WAFA and asked them to call me back to clarify.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:07 pm
Given recent closures in the West Bank and the fact that these people are Palestinian, is it not possible that they may have been routed through the Kharibtha checkpoint, which the story states is west of Ramallah?
May 1st, 2006 at 10:14 pm
Is it also not possible that they were visiting family or friends that lived near Ramallah before setting out to visit the father in Nafha jail?
Is it also not possible that it doesn’t matter why they were at the checkpoint, but rather that the 3-year-old girl was killed?
May 1st, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Why would one need a clarification over a minor detail; the child is dead.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:05 am
It is bitter truths like these that truly make one wonder. Why is it that a Palestinian (muslim) life is not as valuable as that of an Israeli (jewish) life? What was the child’s fault…being a Muslim?
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:38 am
Muslimah it’s not about Jews vs. Muslims as some really like to make look like!
She didn’t die because she’s a Muslim, enough of this bigorty!
It’s about occupation and hatred!It’s about making others life miserable regardless of their faith (Jewish Palestinians,Christian Pales, Muslim Pales and athiest Pales), like people dying on these checkpoints.
Have it occured to you that one of the IDF soldiers might have been a Muslim?Chrisitan?Druze? Arfican?
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:19 am
I was questioning, I was not attacking,Firas.
Perhaps it is the way you claim it to be, that she didn’t die because she was Muslim, but I’m preaty sure she wouldn’t have died if she were Jewish, on that same checkpoint.
For this particular article it has not occured to me that the solider may have been a Muslim, because it states that it was an “Israeli Terrorist,” and do you really think there would be a Muslim guard allowed on an “Israeli” checkpoint? I doubt it.
And it is not about Muslims vs. Jews, it’s about an innocent
3 year-old that is no more. It’s about so many other children like her, whose stories are never told. The same tragic endigs! It’s about the voices that have been surpressed by people who continuously refuse to see the truth. So I ask again, why is an Israeli life more valuable than a Palestinian life? I can imagine what uproar in media all over the world would have been if this was an Israeli child.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:01 am
Firas,
Do you mean to say that the Israeli occupation has one of their goals as making the lives of Jewish Palestinians miserable? Do you even know anything about the situation and history of Israel and Palestine?
The faith (Muslim, Christian, Druze, Jewish) and origin (African or otherwise) of the IDF soldiers is not in question. The practices of the Israeli occupation are, as well as the the fact that the media ignores most of the Palestinian tragedies, while highlighting most of the Israeli ones.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Muslimah, I hear you! While israelis and americans (and oftentimes Canadians) believe that the life of Jew is worth more than the life of a Muslim, we know better. In fact, Muslim life is worth more than jewish life. It is tragic that this 3-year old Muslim will no longer be able to perform her daily prayers, read from the Koran, and otherwise practice her chosen faith.
I am concerned about the tone of the article (perhaps written by a zionist infiltrator?). It is suspiciously close to suggesting that the crushing of the child with the gate was an accident, rather than the cold-blooded murder of a Muslim child by israeli occupiers. And to publish a picture of her without her burka!
The international community must be informed that Israel is now murdering young muslim women who attempt to go to the bathroom.
I wish Israel would stop its policy of guarding its so-called borders with armed thugs so that my Palestinian brethren can drive them into the sea.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Grog,
You are who you hate. The story was tragic, heartbreaking. Yet, all you can do is write racist comments and make broad, unrealistic statement. How very sad.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Grog,
Your comments are ridiculous and bigoted. Perhaps you are the Zionist infiltrator, trying to make Muslims look bad.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Whoops, I don’t mean to offend. Please identify the racist, bigoted, and/or hateful comments so that I can modify my response. Sorry, guys!
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:54 pm
I can’t seem to get anything right today. I see several womens’ names above, so my reference to “guys” will probably be seen as misogynistic. I extend my apologies to the women too.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:31 pm
You can’t call someone an Israeli terrorist b/c of an accidental death at a checkpoint. The Israelis have demonstrated that they are capable of killing Palestinians in conventional ways (unfortunately). When Israel is forced to kill, it does so in a way that attempts to limit civilian casualties. I can’t say the same for Hamas, Al Aksa, etc., who target civilians. I’m sure the IDF and the 18 year old kid manning the gate feel terirbly that a beautiful child had to die. It seems to have been an accident. It pains everyone. Meanwhile you make light of “American students fly to Israel to support wounded classmate.” Here is a kid who has metal stuck in his body b/c of a real terrorist who blew himself up on purpose to hurt this boy. It makes me sad. But a checkpoint accident and an suicide bomber are not the same thing. Not to mention, the checkpoint is there BECAUSE of the bomber. So you can blam whichever insane orginization took credit for that one. Jews are very compasionate people. Look at the rally for Darfur-loaded with Jews. If Palestinians were less hateful, they would be the beneficaries of this compassion. But until then, you continue to vex the world with you obstinance. Despite that, I’m sorry another life was lost. Are you sorry when Jewish lives are lost at the hands of your crazy ass cousins?
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Grog,
Here are the quotes you asked for:
“While israelis and americans (and oftentimes Canadians) believe that the life of Jew is worth more than the life of a Muslim, we know better. In fact, Muslim life is worth more than jewish life.”
“I wish Israel would stop its policy of guarding its so-called borders with armed thugs so that my Palestinian brethren can drive them into the sea.”
I don’t think misogyny is the concern here.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Jake,
Read this stats then come again and tell me this is “accidental”:
http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/Casualties.asp
I’m not surprised by your use of the word terrorist when describing the Palestinian Suicide Bombers, but not using the same for the state terrorist called IOF. Funny I would say, but this is just another example of a blind-pro Israel/Jew/Zionist or what ever they call it, compared to the ignorance of the fact of who is occupying who.
BTW, I asked the same before, and I’m asking you again. Suppose that Palestinian are using similar military tools like IOF, would you or anyone else dare into using the term “terrorist”? I guess not. So it is who has the power, he is the innocent and the real victims are terrorist. Funny World.
IOF is a terrorist group lead by a terrorist government. Since a terrorist is in your terms the one who kills innocents, then I’m sorry to tell you that IOF is the biggest terrorist in the region.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Haitham,
If I may speak for Jake, I believe he is saying that a terrorist is one who TARGETS civilians. Any nation that has experienced turmoil has killed civilians in one way or another. Thus, a terrorist wants innocents to die.
That being said, it is clear that Israel does not take the steps necessary to protect innocents and to avoid their harm. For that they should be held to account. But as I have argued before (and I believe Queen Rania’s Fan has, too), there is a moral divide between the 2, albeit a fairly small one. Negligence (even if it is malicious) is not the same as a desire for the death of civilians.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Haitham,
Firstly- I aknowledged in my post that Palestinians are targeted and killed. I don’t believe the IDF has an interest in killing children. My high school buddy is an officer and underwent much training much of which stressed the Army’s concern for avoiding killing innocent civilians. Of course, even terrorists are civilians. All I said was that THIS child’s death was an accident. The IDF doesnt have gates in place to drop them on babie’s heads. There are easier ways to kill people, as Btselem will attest. (Tangent- My friend is a Jew in the IDF and his unit is made up of Bedouin and Druze soldiers who proudly serve in the IDF and are treated far better by Israelis than they have been by Arabs). To address your other scattered points- of course I call a guy who blows himself up at a shwarma stand killing innocent civilians a terrorist. What would YOU call that? Are you so twisted as to call that an act of self defense, as Hamas did? You seem more bright than that. I do think the IDF occupies parts of what might eventually become Palestine (I will refrain from calling it TransJordan as it was once called. So we are occupiers- I hope that ends soon. Next- if Hamas committed itself to normal military methods, I suppose they wouldn’t be terrorists anymore. When Israel was attacked in 1968 and had to defend itself from the invading Arab armies, that was not refered to as terrorism in the Jewish Schools and programs I attended. That was a war, which we won, miraculously, and we were able to Spank Jordan the hell out of there and reclaim the old city. That was a great victory. When Palestine becomes a nation, they will have an army and that army will prevent suicide attacks, and if they don’t we will go to war with that army and that will be a war, not terrorism. I have always said it would be harder to blame the Paletininas if they went after military targets, which they rarely do. You’re right- when a tank was blown up in Gaza killing Israeli soldiers, that was done by terrorists BUT it that was just a coincidence. That happened to be an act of war. Fair play. It didn’t kill children eating pizza, or falafel, it didn’t end the lives of the elderly and children riding on busses, teens dancing in a disco.That is terrorism. I’m willing to agree with you on this- but’s it’s all semantics, which the Arabs are adept with. Twisting words, meanings, etc. Hamas is a terrorist organization b/c it 1) declares its desire to wipe out Israel 2) supports those who TARGET innocent civilians 3) has employed terrorist tactics in the past. Killing civilians is a necessary but not sufficient habit of terrorists. So, the IDF are occupiers, but not terrorists.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:36 pm
You can claim what you want. This does not change the fact that Israel and it’s army is the source of all evils. In 1948, Hamas didn’t exist. And since then, most (if not all) Israeli government came from military background (terrorist in today terms), so this does not make your governments any less better than Hamas, in fact worse.
If Israel has the right to install checkpoints to cut Palestinian lands/city/villages into hundred pieces and you call crushing the head of this kid accident, them sorry to tell you that you have a short sight. If occupation did not exist, and no checkpoints exist, the kid would not have to go and visit his father in Israeli jails and getting his head crushed at a checkpoint. You claim that the checkpoints to stop ‘terrorists’, let me remind you that if occupation didn’t exist, suicide bombers would not have seen light.
Moreover, if you haven’t visited a checkpoint, I invite you to do so before claiming that they don’t have gates to drop on babies heads. But I’m sure with your bias to IOF, you won’t see anything wrong in what these terrorists are doing to Palestinians.
Your army friends are mo more than a state paid terrorist who target innocents, just like any other terrorist gang. Otherwise, a terrorist can claim the same that he is targeting military person which happens to be sitting in a bar, but unfortunately few more civilians eating falafel were sitting around him. Sound silly, I know, but nothing different than the IOF crimes which claims not targeting innocents while they are getting killed any way.
So what makes the IOF better than any other terrorist gang, nothing! One use a home made bomb, other use US/home made jet plane. One die at the scene, the other run back to his base claiming victory. One is victim, second is occupier gang.
Ok, forget that. Should we open the history of massacres done on the hand of your gangs and IOF? What do you call these? Act of defense? Real funny.
Live in your fancy dreams. As long as you don’t see force, you will never admit a fact. In fact, even when you see facts (Gaza tank and killing your Israeli terrorists), you still call that act as terrorism. Contradicting yourself, and twisting truth, as expected from pro IOF terrorists.
PS. Bedouins and Dourz are nothing less that their terrorist recruiter. No cry over anyone serving in the terrorist IOF.
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:31 am
“THIS child’s death was an accident.” (Jake)
Any Palestinian death is always conssidered some “accident” while the death of an Israeli is always “an act of terror.” There are always accidents, but there are also truths! This was no accident. The gate would not have “accidentaly” closed on an Israeli 3 year-old and crushed it’s skull on that same checkpoint!
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:55 am
I dare say it would have.
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:59 am
I find this discussion very sad.
The Israelis do their dirty work under the banner of selfpreservation and the Palestinians are terrorists.
A child was killed and Israel is saying it was an accident.
Was it an accident? Or was it a message to the family that members of their family was suspected terrorists?
I will probably never know. But I now find Israel even more suspect of war crimes (genocide) and wrong doings against the Palestinians.
One terrorist bombing leads to rampant bombings into residential areas in Palestein is wrong.
If the Israelis wan’t the terrorists to stop, their terrorism has to stop!
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:18 am
Haitham,
Before 1948 there was no Hamas- there was also no Palestinian nationalism. There was, however, Arab terror well before the founding of the state. Israel’s leaders have a military background out of sheer necesity. It is a tiny country surounded by hostile Arab countries. Everyone must serve. The point is, why are you being so crazy? This was an accident, OK? Since it’s Yom Haatzmaut now (Israel’s independence day) I will say this boils down to Israel’s right to exist. Hundreds of thousands of Arab Jews lost their homes in 1948 too and fled to Israel, not to mention the refugees from Europe. I don’t even care to hear what you think of The Holocaust. This all could have been settled by the UN in 48 but that’s not the way Arabs work. Now you have to get your act together and accpet whatever Israel will unilaterally throw your way. It’s sad- but your leaders have really failed you throghout the years. If you’re going to blame the occupation for an accidental death (highly attenuated causation there) then I would expect you to extend the same blame to your own incompetent leaders- Arafat chief among them: the most ineefective and corrupt leader of all time. What has he accomplished- nothing. What could he have done- everything. (BTW he was Egyptian). He was a failure and the Palestinians will continue to fail so long as they remain on the path they’re on now. Haitham, you seem blinded by hate and not capabe of open discussion. We should give you the Edward Said Chair at Columbia.
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:15 am
Since before 1948 there was no Israel it was Palestein.
The Israelis invaded and called their country Israel.
Give me a break!
I’m old enough to know that there was Palestein but no Israel.
Now that there is an Israel let the Palestinians have a country without occupation.
Jake, Check your history.
The Palestinians have lived in absolute of controll of Israel since then.
You kill one of ours, we will kill 10 of yours. That is their motto.
One terrorist of theirs has killed many innocent people in Israel and Israelis have killed many innocent people.They have bombed innocent people to meke their claim of stopping militants.
Bush lies and lies again and keeps repeating again until you believe it is the truth. The Israelies lie again and again until it is the truth.
We are in control and we will keep killing you until you are subjucated into our belief.
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:25 am
This is not news that will be covered by CNN. It is just a Muslim who has died.
I am terribly upset by this.
A child has died and the world has ignored this.
Any way I can influence CNN to cover this I will. It is the least I can do.
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Jake,
Please stop denying the existence of the Palestinians before 1948. It is a favorite tune of Zionists to claim that there was no Palestine. Strange that if you type “Map Palestine” into Google Images, many maps come up with the name Palestine imblazoned on them. Also, I have held currency in my hand that had the name Palestine stamped into its metal.
But even if you deny this to call it Transjordan, the label makes the land’s pre-1948 permanent occupants no less real, no less a people, than if it were called Israel, Palestine or the Occupied Territories. The truth is that the indigenous people have been cultivating the land for thousands of years. Even the Bible and the Talmud, if you want consider them historical documents, state that the Israelites invaded the land and took it by force. So the Israelites were not the first ones there, as they so claim to have been. There is overwhelming evidence that cities like Jericho http://www.jericho-city.org/historye.html#The%20Israelite%20Invasion: , Gaza, Acca and Jaffa http://www.jerusalemites.org/history_of_palestine/16.htm existed before the Israelites conquered the land.
But even if you erase the Palestinian history prior to 1800, there were still many permanent, non-migrant citizens of the land, including a Jewish minority. The Zionists began to change the demographic only in the late 1800’s through mass migrations to Palestine. To deny this is to deny reality.
(As for Arafat being born in Egypt, why does that matter? It doesn’t seem to matter that Ariel Sharon, was born Ariel Scheinermann in Russia. Besides, both of Arafat’s parents were Palestinians, both born in Palestine, which identifies his stake in the matters of Palestine. Sharon’s parents were no more Palestinian than the Czar, Lenin or Trotsky.)
There in fact was Palestinian and Arab nationalism before 1948, largely as a response to western Imperialism. That you want to deny a Palestine based on a sense of ownership of the land only reflects your desire for ownership as a Zionist. And even if the Palestinian nationalism coalesced in response to Zionist and Imperialist nationalism, it is only fair to remark that any people, until threatened to have their lands and livelihoods taken from them by force, would not have reason to affiliate themselves except by family, property and profession.
“In 1947 Jews were only one third of the population of Palestine and owned only 6% of the land. Yet the partition plan granted the Jewish state 55% of the total land area. The Arab state was to have an overwhelmingly Arab population, while the Jewish state would have almost as many Arabs as Jews. If it was unjust to force Jews to be a 1/3 minority in an Arab state, it was no more just to force Arabs to be an almost 50% minority in a Jewish state.”
Source: http://www.zmag.org/shalom-meqa.htm
Ultimately, I would be more suspicious if threats of losing the land of Palestine that was their home HAD NOT brought the Arab population together.
May 4th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Correction: Sharon’s Russian born parents arrived in Palestine during the second Zionist Aliyah (ascent), prior to Ariel’s birth.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
This story should be clearer…but one is clear: I’m so sorry for this child!!!
May 5th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
First of all, as a Canadian, Grog, I don’t know anyonw who be;ieves that the life of a Jewish person is worth more than the life of a Muslim. But we also don’t believe that the life of a Muslim is worth more than the life of a Jew. All lives are equal, whether they be atheist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, or Hindu.
Second, I believe that the important point in this story is lost. It’s not about politics or who started the war. A child has died and most of you are more focused on how much knowledge you have, rather than grieving her loss. I’ve even seen people in here refer to the child as a “him”, proving my point that you have completely forgotten about the child already, and it’s not even on a different page. We were told so that we can form our own opinions, not try to persuade someone that’s NEVER going to be persuaded of what “actually” happened. You have different beliefs, different opinions. Get over it. You have to understand that no matter how much arguing back and forth that you do, the other will never change their mind. So say a prayer for the little girl, send mental condolences to the family, and know that whatever you believe is what you believe, and may not be the truth.
May 6th, 2006 at 6:27 am
Grog,
How dare you say one life is “worth” more than another, for any reason? Of course you would say that a Muslim life is worth more than a Jewish life, since you are (according to your comment) of Palestinian descent. Let’s focus on the matter-at-hand: the horrible death of a 3-year-old child, regardless of her religion. It’s people like you who generate hate and self-righteousness amongst religious groups, which in turn leads to unspeakably horrendous acts of violence towards “opposing” religious groups; worse, innocent children are often seriously injured or killed because of this stupid and needless violence. When does it end? Not until ignorance and hatred is extracted from the souls who bear it.
May 6th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Grog’s opinions do not reflect the majority of Palestinian ones. It is not fair to say “Of course you would say…since you are of Palestinian descent.” The Palestinians do not have collective attitudes any more than the Israelis do. Please recognise that.
May 6th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Jami,
I think the point of the story is that while an innocent girl was killed, accident as it may be, her life was not as important as reporting on Leonardo di Caprio’s love life. In the end, it does become a reflection of politics, both in the broad (governments) an local (ethics) senses.
May 6th, 2006 at 9:56 am
Jake took the opportunity to revisit some long discarded notions about the non-existence of Palestine and illegitimacies of their claims on the land. I countered those notions because silence only lends credibility to the lies that are spoken.
May 7th, 2006 at 6:06 am
Corina,
Let me remind you this is a blog whose responses are majority from people of Arab descent. Do you think you will find them commenting on how they hate themselves? There is hate no doubt, but its easy to preach equality when you are standing aside and watching the conflict from your side-view. Go to an Israeli blog, you wouldn’t even find this tragic story first of all, let a lone have people comment on it.(obviously) You will find stories of how horrible Palestinians are and you will see the same HATE. And they would say that a Jewish life is more valuable than a Muslim life. I can say so because I have not seen one report about Palestinians being killed by Israeli “terrorists” yet I see stories of the deaths of Israelis all the time.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:18 am
I am of Jewish descent. I am appaled about reading a child dying at the controll of a Jewish controll point.
It does not matter if the child was Jewish or Muslim!
A child died!
The politics are going to be a problem.
BUT STILL A CHILD DIED!
Israel is still going to deny any wrongdoings. The Palestinians are still going to say it is genocide.
A CHILD DIED! YOU ARE BOTH WRONG! A CHILD DIED!
You have to get Bush out of the equasion and settle this amongst yourselves.
DO THIS BEFORE ANOTHER CHILD DIES.
May 14th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
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May 16th, 2006 at 3:16 am
I have been reading all of the comments above and im disgusted about the 3 year old being killed! All I can do is Imagine that child to be my 3 year old whenever I see her! this only makes me angry and so angry that I would never hesitate to take revenge from these real terrorists by any means I can. However I must remind you all that this is not only about 1 small 3 year old child !!!! its far far byond this and I seriously believe that we are now rapidly moving towards WWIII which will lead to chaos. Remember no muslim, christian or jew dies….The innocent die and that has to STOP AND STOP SOON. I assume someone will raise the question How do you stop this evil Killing?? Well there are many many ways and I will jott down 1 of them ” FOLLOW YOUR SCRIPTURES” READ AND FOLLOW AS ALL SCRIPURES PREACH PEACE..I invite the rest of you to give other suggestions how to stop killing? GBU all
May 18th, 2006 at 2:43 am
Because we remember that terrorism is condemned precisely because it kills the innocent, we can’t justify counterterrorism tactics that kill them too.
Unfortunately, even the most carefully planned strike can produce a great deal of collateral damage. So the goal is to reduce those dommage, as mkilling innocent people will surely call into question the legitimacy of the entire counterterrorism campaign againt islmo-terrorism.
It’s why both the U.S. and Israeli governments are working hard to improve their intelligence and rapid-strike capabilities, in order to better kill suspected terrorists, along with developping and deploying weapons that can kill evildoers without causing too much collateral damage. It’s all about matching policy with good intelligence and better defensive measures.
But when are killings appropriate? First, intelligence officials suggest targets. Second, military officials review the information. Third, military leaders, the minister of defense, and the executive leaders sign off on the action.
Or course, this purely executive process includes no judicial checks, but only top executive approbation of the target list.
Any government killings are always embedded in a larger counterterrorism program.
Read more: http://magmareport.net