Analyst:

Snowden files expose US extrajudicial killings of Muslims

Rasa - Documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden have exposed the US campaign of extrajudicial killings of Muslims, says an analyst.

News ID: 423304

Date: 07 September 2016 - 20:54

RNA - The newly leaked documents show that the US National Security Agency has used a British military base to carry out “capture-kill operations” across the Middle East.

"The files reveal for the first time how the NSA has used the British base to aid a significant number of capture-kill operations across the Middle East and North Africa, fueled by powerful eavesdropping technology," according to the revelations appeared in a report by online publication The Intercept.

The NSA has used the heavily guarded military facility at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, northern England, the report showed.

"The [NSA] programs, with names such as GHOSTHUNTER and GHOSTWOLF, have provided support for conventional British and American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan," it added. "But they have also aided covert missions in countries where the US has not declared war."

Frank O’Brien, a New York-based researcher, said the revelations provide “further evidence of the extrajudicial kinds of killings, interrogations, torture and also illegal detentions of people who have just happened to be of Muslim faith.”

“The 1.5 billion Muslims are mainly the target of this kind of campaign,” O’Brien told Press TV on Wednesday. “They’re the ones that we are declaring a war on, when actually we’re creating terrorists by killing them, by torturing them by being the evil empire.”

“In the end, Snowden’s revelations really helped in taking down Uncle Sam a notch and hopefully ruining his chances at the global hegemony,” he noted.

Washington has been conducting “targeted killings” through remotely-controlled armed drones in several Muslim countries.

The US claims the airstrikes target members of al-Qaeda and other militants, but according to local officials and witnesses, civilians have been the victims in many cases.

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