‘I am on the Kill List’

Malik Jalal

“I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive.

“I don’t want to end up a “Bugsplat” – the ugly word that is used for what remains of a human being after being blown up by a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone. More importantly, I don’t want my family to become victims, or even to live with the droning engines overhead, knowing that at any moment they could be vaporized.

“I am in England this week because I decided that if Westerners wanted to kill me without bothering to come to speak with me first, perhaps I should come to speak to them instead. I’ll tell my story so that you can judge for yourselves whether I am the kind of person you want to be murdered.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-am-on-the-us-kill-list-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-hunted-by-drones-a6980141.html

Link at http://www.drudge.com/

Most unusual.

From http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/04/11/meet-malik-jalal-who-drone-kill-list

“In the third revelation in recent days concerning a so-called ‘Kill List’ of individuals to be targeted in US strikes, today Reprieve client Malik Jalal took to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme to ask the US and the UK to stop trying to kill him.

“Invited by Lord Ken MacDonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Malik Jalal has traveled from Waziristan, Pakistan’s border area with Afghanistan, to ask parliamentarians and the government that he be taken off the Kill List. Today, Malik Jalal has served a letter on Home Secretary Theresa May, who has oversight of MI5 and the NCA and Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who has responsibility for GCHQ and MI6, copied in to the US Ambassador. The letter details the prior attempts on his life, and the impact on him, his family and his colleagues in the NWPC. He asks for meetings to clear his name, and to get off the Kill List.”

(Whom to believe? Most likely a little of both -- Jalal, British intelligence, the Foreign Office ...

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