Your Government Has a Secret Kill List. Is that OK With You?
NOVANEWS
Kareem’s story neatly captures the havoc that the war on terror has wreaked on the legal system and the dangers of abandoning legal traditions that have served us well for centuries
by: Tom Emswiler, Will Isenberg
A US Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan, on Jan. 31, 2010. (Photo: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Bilal Abdul Kareem, an American citizen, thinks the government is trying to kill him. And he might be right.
Kareem’s story, recently chronicled in Rolling Stone, neatly captures the havoc that the war on terror has wreaked on the legal system and the dangers of abandoning legal traditions that have served us well for centuries.
Kareem resides overseas and is struggling to determine why he is apparently on the gove...