72 Names, Children Dead by Drone

Dear Mr. President,

Today is Kill List Tuesday, you huddled with advisers, selecting those who will die this week while your minions work diligently on a “playbook” of bureaucratic rules for when, how and who will control drone strikes in the mountains of Waziristan, the deserts of Yemen and Somalia and elsewhere. No matter what the rules or legal justification in secret memos, every drone strike, every Hellfire missile, every targeted assassination and extrajudicial killing is a war crime. No matter the denials by the Pentagon, by Brennan, by yourself, innocent men, women and children are slaughtered every day on your orders and everyone who carries out those orders or supports you actively or just remains silent and does not object is complicit. We all share responsibility for the thousands murdered in our name. Here are 72 of the nearly 200 children killed by drone strikes you authorized in Pakistan and Yemen: Noor Aziz, 8, Noor Syed, 8, Wajid Noor, 9, Syed Wali Shah, 7, Qari Alamzeb, 14, Shoaib, 8, Mohammad Yunus, 16, Ilyas, 13, Sohail, 7, Asadullah, 9, Khalilullah, 9, Noor Mohammad, 8, Khalid, 12, Saifullah, 9, Ziaur Rahman, 13, Noor Mohammad, 15, Qari Alamzeb, 14, Shahbuddin, 15, Mohammad Salim, 11, Shahjehan, 15, Gul Sher Khan, 15, Bakht Muneer, 14, Numair, 14, Luqman, 12, Jannatullah, 13, Ismail, 12, Jamshed Khan, 14, Alam Nabi, 11, Rahmatullah, 14, Darvesh, 13, Shaukat, 14, Salman, 12, Baacha Rahman, 13, Luqman, 12, Jannatullah, 13, Ismail, 12, Darvesh, 13, Ameer Said, 15, Shaukat, 14, Najibullah, 13, Hizbullah, 10, Kitab Gul, 12, Wilayat Khan, 11, Shehzad Gul, 11, Shabir, 15, Nimatullah, 14, Talha, 8, Ayeesha, 3, Maezol Khan, 8, Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser, 9, Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser, 7, Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser, 5, Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser, 4, Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye, 4, Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye, 3, Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye, 1, Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye, 6, Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye, 15, Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad, 2, Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad, 1, Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh, 3, Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed, 9, Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed, 4, Daolah Nasser 10, Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye, 13, Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye, 9, Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye, 4, AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout, 12, Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki, 16, Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed, 12, Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed, 2, Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari, 13, Their blood is on your hands. Their blood is on all our hands.