{"id":9999,"date":"2013-05-10T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=9999"},"modified":"2013-05-10T02:59:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T09:59:46","slug":"reporter-asks-if-u-s-airstrikes-qualify-as-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/reporter-asks-if-u-s-airstrikes-qualify-as-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Asks if U.S. Airstrikes Qualify as Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reporter Asks White House if U.S. Airstrikes That Kill Afghan Civilians Qualify as\u00a0\u2018Terrorism\u2019<\/h1>\n
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by Rania Khalek on April 17, 2013<\/p>\n

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Rania Khalek<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong>The reporter who asked the question is\u00a0Amina Ismail<\/a>, a journalist at McClatchy. I urge you to thank her for asking it (her twitter handle is\u00a0@AminaIsmail<\/a>)\u00a0because I can\u2019t\u00a0imagine it was easy given how extremely rare and frowned upon it is to challenge the dominant \u201cwar on terror\u201d narrative, especially as a female reporter with an Arab-sounding name.\u00a0And\u00a0Amina, if you\u2019re reading this, thanks for kicking ass!<\/p>\n

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Matthew Keys, the social media editor at Reuters, posted\u00a0audio<\/a>\u00a0of a reporter asking White House Press Secretary Jay Carney if U.S. bombings that kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan constitute an \u201cact of terror\u201d given the labeling of the Boston Marathon bombing as \u201cterrorism\u201d. She specifically refers to a U.S. airstrike earlier this month that killed\u00a011 children, just the latest in a\u00a0seemingly<\/a>\u00a0endless<\/a>\u00a0line<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Afghan<\/a>\u00a0civilian<\/a>\u00a0deaths<\/a>\u00a0at the hands of the U.S. government.<\/p>\n