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May 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The true threat to the United States comes from within this government that is trying to cause the people of this country to fear another group of people. This is going to tear our country apart and this president is responsible for this,” Tighe Barry, an activist with the anti-war group CODEPINK, said in an exclusive interview with Press TV.
“Our president is not allowed to kill people simply because he deems it so… There were rules set up that do not allow for president, a unitary government official, to decide who lives and who dies anywhere in the world,” he added.
A New York Times article published on Tuesday revealed that Obama personally approves the names put on the “kill lists” used in the targeted killing operations carried out by American assassination drones.
According to the report, every week or so, more than 100 members of the country’s national security team gather via secure video teleconference run by the Pentagon and go over the biographies of suspects in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, and “nominate” those who should be targeted in the attacks.
No other US president in history has ever taken such a singular role in deciding such matters, the report added.
“This is all about the arms sales, this is all about fear, installing fear, instilling fear,” he added.
In Pakistan, Washington claims that its airstrikes target militants crossing the border with Afghanistan, but local sources say civilians have been the main victims of the attacks.
The US military has also used the drones in Afghanistan, Libya, and Iraq, among other countries.
Analysts say that, as most of the victims of the US assassination drone strikes are civilians, Obama could be regarded as a war criminal.
The UN has denounced the attacks as targeted killings and said they pose a challenge to international law.
“This is not keeping America safe, this is not keeping the people in Pakistan safe, this is only causing internal problems in Pakistan, in Afghanistan, in Yemen, in Sudan, in Somalia and it is not helping us at all,” Barry concluded.
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