U.S. President Barack
Obama (AFP Photo/Alex Wong – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
MADAyuMadyan - Ia
seolah-olah bahawa Presiden Obama amat sedar tentang kesan kempen Drone beliau, kerana beliau dilaporkan memberitahu para pembantunya dia
"benar-benar bagus pada membunuh orang."
Quote (petikan) yang datang dari sebuah buku baru yang dipanggil "Double Down," oleh
wartawan Mark Halperin dan John Heileman, yang menceritakan kisah dalam pilihan
raya 2012. The Washington Post adalah cawangan pertama untuk mendedahkan quote (petikan) dalam semakan semula buku ini.
The
White House masih belum mengulas mengenai quote (petikan) yang dikatakan itu, tetapi
salah satu penasihat kanan presiden, Dan Pfeiffer, menolak banyak tuntutan buku
itu pada hari Ahad menunjukkan ABC "Minggu Ini." Buku ini juga
mendakwa bahawa pasukan politik Obama dianggap menggantikan Naib Presiden Joe
Biden dengan bekas Setiausaha Negara Hillary Clinton untuk kempen pemilihan
semula itu.
"Presiden
sentiasa kecewa tentang kebocoran," kata Pfeiffer. "Saya tidak
bercakap dengan beliau mengenai buku ini. Saya tidak membacanya. Dia tidak
membacanya. Tetapi dia membenci kebocoran."
'I'm Really Good at Killing people' - BOOK Claims
Obama told aides
It seems
that President Obama is very much aware of the effects of his drone campaign,
as he reportedly told aides he’s “really good at killing people.”
The
quote comes from a new book called “Double Down,” by journalists Mark Halperin
and John Heileman, which chronicles the inside story of the 2012 election. The
Washington Post was the first outlet to expose the quote in its review of the
book.
The
White House has yet to comment on the alleged quote, but one of the president’s
senior advisors, Dan Pfeiffer, rejected many of the book’s claims on ABC’s
Sunday show “This Week.” The book also claims that Obama’s political team
considered replacing Vice President Joe Biden with former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton for the reelection campaign.
"The
president is always frustrated about leaks," Pfeiffer said. "I
haven't talked to him about this book. I haven't read it. He hasn't read it.
But he hates leaks."
Dan Pfeiffer. (Photo
from twitter.com user @pfeiffer44 – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Wahyu (the
revelation) petikan datang sebagai kempen Drone pentadbiran yang diletakkan di
bawah penelitian yang semakin meningkat. Sejak mengambil alih jawatan pada
tahun 2008, dan memenangi Hadiah Nobel Keamanan pada tahun 2009, Obama telah
meluaskan penggunaan pesawat dan pembunuhan yang disasarkan di negara-negara luar.
Beliau menyelia lonjakan 2009 di Afghanistan, operasi Drone semasa NATO 2011
penglibatan di Libya 2011 Mei serbuan yang mengorbankan Osama bin Laden, dan serangan
yang paling baru-baru ini yang membunuh pemimpin Taliban Pakistan Hakimullah
Mehsud.
Menurut
Biro Kewartawanan Siasatan di London, Presiden telah diberi kuasa 326 serangan
di Pakistan sahaja. Ia juga menganggarkan bahawa, sejak George W. Bush
mengambil alih jawatan bagi penggal ke-2 pada tahun 2004, serangan telah
membunuh mana-mana sahaja di antara 2,500 dan 3,600 individu, dan antara 416
dan 948 daripada individu-individu adalah orang awam.
White
House mendakwa bilangan orang awam dibunuh oleh pesawat adalah jauh lebih rendah
daripada itu, walaupun ia telah menurun untuk melepaskan beberapanya sendiri
atas sebab-sebab keselamatan negara. Pentadbiran menganggap mana-mana “lelaki
tentera umur” dalam zon serangan untuk menjadi pejuang.
The
revelation of the quote comes as the administration’s drone campaign is placed
under increasing scrutiny. Since taking office in 2008, and winning the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2009, Obama has greatly expanded the use of drones and targeted
killings in foreign nations. He oversaw the 2009 surge in Afghanistan, drone
operations during NATO’s 2011 involvement in Libya, the May 2011 raid that
killed Osama bin Laden, and the most recent strike that killed the Pakistani
Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud.
According to the Bureau of
Investigative Journalism in London, the president has authorized 326 strikes in
Pakistan alone. It also estimates that, since George W. Bush took office for
his second term in 2004, the strikes have killed anywhere between 2,500 and
3,600 individuals, and that between 416 and 948 of those individuals were
civilians.
Kematian
Awam Drone datang di bawah perhatian baru-baru ini di Washington, apabila
seorang guru sekolah Pakistan dan keluarganya memberi keterangan di hadapan
Kongres pada kesan-kesan program ini ke atas orang awam. Menurut Amnesty
International, neneknya dan keluarga
telah dibunuh oleh serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat pada tahun 2012,
bersama-sama dengan 18 orang awam yang lain.
Penggunaan
pesawat juga dibuat berita nasional apabila ia telah mendedahkan bahawa mesin itu
bunuh 16 tahun Amerika Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, anak kepada seorang pendakwah
radikal Anwar al-Awlaki, pada 30 September 2011 di Yemen. Pemuda itu telah dibunuh
2 minggu selepas ayahnya, dan keluarganya masih mencari jawapan tentang
mengapa.
Civilian
drone deaths came under the spotlight just recently in Washington, when a
Pakistani school teacher and his family testified before Congress on the
effects of the program on civilians. According to Amnesty International, the
family’s grandmother was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2012, along with 18
other civilians.
The use of drones also made
national news when it was revealed that the machines killed 16-year-old
American Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the son of a radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki,
on September 30, 2011 in Yemen. The young man was killed two weeks after his
father, and his family is still searching for answers as to why.
Bagi
beliau, Obama telah menyatakan bahawa program Drone adalah undang-undang, dan
ia sebenarnya menghalang kematian lebih orang awam di tangan pengganas.
“Marilah
kita ingat bahawa pengganas kita selepas orang awam sasaran, dan jumlah
kematian daripada tindakan keganasan mereka terhadap umat Islam kerdil
mana-mana anggaran korban awam daripada serangan Drone," kata Obama dalam
ucapan awal tahun ini.
For his
part, Obama has argued that the drone program is legal, and that it actually
prevents the death of even more civilians at the hands of terrorists.
"Let
us remember that the terrorists we are after target civilians, and the death
toll from their acts of terrorism against Muslims dwarfs any estimate of
civilian casualties from drone strikes," Obama said during a speech
earlier this year.
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