Ban Killer Drones
October 3, 2021
By Ban Killer Drones Network
Some weeks ago, several online journals published an article entitled "No, the Longest War in U.S. History is Not Over". In it, Brian Terrell pointed out the significance of October 7, 2001. On this day, in 2001, the United States began a 20-year long war against Afghanistan and initiated the so-called U.S. global "War on Terror".
We believe October 7th should be remembered especially in light of President Biden's pledge to hunt down people anywhere in the world who are viewed by the U.S. government as threats. Biden said: "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay". His threat is based on the U.S. use of weaponized drones to kill anyone, at any time, anywhere
The Ban Killer Drones network proposes to observe October 7, 2021, as a "A Day of Atonement", a day to repent for the war crimes of our government and military in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world.
Emblematic of those crimes is the August 29th U.S. revenge drone attack in Kabul that killed ten civilians.
As U.S. citizens whose tax dollars went into buying the MQ-9 Reaper drone that made that attack, and the missile it fired, the blood of Zemari Ahmadi and his three children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 10; Ahmadi’s cousin Naser, 30; the children of Ahmadi’s brother Romal: Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6, and Hayat, 2; and two 3-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya is on our hands.
On Thursday, October 7th, many will gather at places of worship at 11am Eastern time to call for a real end to the 20 years of U.S. terror against the people of Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. We urge a ban on weaponized drones and an end to any “Over the Horizon” airstrikes against Afghanistan and any other country. We will also call on religious leaders to speak out clearly for peace, ending what has too often been a tragic, enabling silence from faith leaders over the 20 years.
Here are some talking points:
10/7 was the start of 20 years of U.S. terror against the people of Afghanistan and the Middle East and elsewhere.
The fiasco of the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan that was exposed with the U.S. departure from that tortured nation has also exposed the mistake religious leaders made in supporting the war and “supporting the troops”.
President Biden has vowed to continue drone attacks under the banner of “Over the Horizon”---continued illegal immoral assassinations and more generalized attacks. It appears that possibly 90% of those killed by weaponized drones have been other than those who were targeted. We urge religious leaders to call for an end to the use of weaponized drones, the illegal "Over the Horizon" and the U.S. vigilantism that it represents.
U.S. military contractors are eager to make China our enemy. Now is the time for religious leaders not to be silent. It is time for them to call for diplomatic responses to China and to oppose a U.S. military build-up in Asia.
Bring signs and flyers, and, if possible, posters showing the photos and the names of the members of the Ahmadi family killed by the August 29 U.S. drone attack, to places of worship in your community. See this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDLbwoRQB
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