<<".....he was not only inciting attacks against the US but also "participating" in them. ">>
I understand that is the US government's official explanation for why he's on the list. Obviously they need some kind of reason to put him on a death list, and an allegation of "participating" in attacks on U.S. targets would certainly sound like justification.
However, it's ONLY an unproven allegation and moreover it's one that comes from the same source as "Saddam has WMD hidden away in there" and "torture at Abu Ghraib was just the work of a few bad apples, not government policy" and "the guys in the helicopter were engaged in a gun battle with the dead civilians" and a few thousand other egregious lies, going back all the way to "They attacked our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin." Why anybody still takes the word of those lying fucking bastards seriously today is a complete mystery to me. The simple fact is that the poor guy says things they don't like to hear and they don't like other people to hear, and so they marked him for death. The rest of their allegations are more likely than not just another part of their daily production quota of lies and bullshit.
Amazing how many times they can lie to you outrageously and yet you will still believe everything else they say. there's a word for that somewhere - - sucka.
What's funny is that the framers of the U.S. Constitution and particularly of the Fifth Amendment foresaw the whole situation unfold, over 200 years beforehand. They KNEW that the government, any government, could overreach itself and order its own citizens rubbed out for the most frivolous or sinister of reasons, and that's why the Fifth Amendment is there in the first place. IMHO, a "kill" list or a "kill or capture" list are virtually one or the same thing, the "or capture" being purely superfluous unless there is an intent to give added incentive to the kill order, with a veneer of legality. Both orders are clear violations of the Fifth.
