“U.S. lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday morning from survivors of an alleged drone strike for the first time in history, with three Pakistani citizens appearing before Congress to describe an attack that killed their matriarch in Pakistan last year.
Schoolteacher Rafiq ur Rehman and his two children — 9-year-old daughter Nabila and 13-year-old son Zubair — traveled on the invitation of Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., to Washington, where they shared their accounts of the alleged drone attack that killed Rehman’s mother, Momina Bibi, and injured two children in the remote tribal region of North Waziristan last October.
The Rehmans, shocked by the attack, which appeared to target Bibi, a 67-year-old midwife, wants answers from Congress. Encouraged by prominent anti-drone activist and Rehman’s lawyer, Shahzad Akbar, they earned an invitation from Grayson to appear at the hearing.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Al Jazeera America:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/29/congress-to-hearfromdronesurvivorsforfirsttime.html
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