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November 15, 2013

Relatives of Drone Victims Travel to D.C. for Summit 
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The second International Drone Summit is taking place this weekend in
Washington, D.C. Relatives of those killed by U.S. drones in Pakistan
and Yemen are gathering with drone critics from Code Pink and other
organizations. Among those traveling from Yemen is Faisal bin Ali Jaber,
an engineer whose nephew and brother-in-law were killed in a drone
strike. In a letter to President Obama, Jaber said his nephew was a
policeman while his brother-in-law was an imam who preached against
al-Qaeda. He wrote, "In his death you lost a potential ally — in
fact, because word of the killing spread immediately through the region,
I fear you have lost thousands."

 

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