Excuse
me just a moment
I
won’t take much of your time.
I am
nobody important –
Nobody
you’ve ever heard of
Nobody
who has a right to speak
In
your comfortable living rooms, to you
As
you sit sipping Coca Cola
With
pizza and cheese.
I
know I have no right
To do
this.
Forgive
me
For
taking this time of yours
To
speak.
Let
me tell you my story.
Who
am I? Nobody.
I
have a name, of course.
Mohammed Tuaiman al-Jahmi, that’s
what they call me
And I’m from Yemen, far far away
A place where the evil men of Al Qaeda
dwell.
We all know Al Qaeda is evil
And has to be fought by all means
possible
For the safety of your malls, your
schools
Your wives and children in their homes.
And it’s a model campaign to destroy Al
Qaeda, I’m sure
With drones eliminating these terrorists
Giving them a stark choice
To give up, or to die.
It is a commendable campaign, indeed
A Crusade, though you must not call it
so.
Drones, the white birds of freedom
Flying overhead
Bringing liberty.
I am Mohammed Tuaiman al-Jahmi
Who had a father and brother freed by
your drones
Freed from life, and its cares, and
everything to do with it.
Or maybe they were evildoer terrorist Al
Qaeda scum
Though I did not know it.
And I thought perhaps
You would leave me alone then.
But I must have been an Al Qaeda myself
Even though I did not know it.
And that is why I was burned to death
By a Hellfire from the sky.
And a statement said three Al Qaeda were
killed.
Do not rejoice too much in my death
There is no time to rest on your
laurels.
For there are more terrorists
Behind me.
Copyright B Purkayastha 2015
“In
their eyes, we don’t deserve to live like people
in the rest of the world and we don’t have feelings
or emotions or cry or feel pain like all the other
humans around the world.”
- Mohammed Tuaiman al-Jahmi, aged 13, subsequently burned to death in one of Barack Obama's drone strikes.
in the rest of the world and we don’t have feelings
or emotions or cry or feel pain like all the other
humans around the world.”
- Mohammed Tuaiman al-Jahmi, aged 13, subsequently burned to death in one of Barack Obama's drone strikes.
Further Reading:
I thought I had read this before. Such innocence in his face. Such a horrible fate to befall him. Perhaps he knows, somehow, that there are those who mourn him.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly why I have called the US of A lead war on terror a war OF terror from its beginning. People around where I live, central Louisiana, USA, seem to think they know all about family and how close family is or can be. I try to tell them that no matter how close they feel their family is or maybe be, they have NO clue at how close family members are in other parts of this world we all live in. In Arab countries in particular, you kill my third cousin twice removed, whatever that means, and now I am an enemy of yours, until I extract revenge on you for killing a member of my family. Americans, or as I tend to call my fellow citizens, 'Merikkkans, have NO idea, not the faintest of first clues as to how close families tend to be in other countries. How by droning a wedding party of say 50 people, we now have at least 500 NEW enemies.
ReplyDeleteWhat the US/NATO/EU/zionist entity are doing IS a war OF terror and the leaders all know this and don't care. It is part of their game plan, endless war for ever more obscene profits for the very rich.
As to those very rich, they seem to never, ever be able to have enough. Never enough of anything, money, power, control, you name it, they can never, ever have enough. What is it that makes a human be that way? It is beyond my understanding for sure. Well of course it is beyond me, I am just an old working class guy who has never ceased to want to learn as much about everything as I can. I enjoy learning about other people, other cultures, beliefs, everything. So much to learn, and only one, relatively short life time to try and learn as much as one can. Maybe I'm the one who is "off". Could be, I did enlist in the Marines after all.