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September 25, 2019

Judge Rules American Citizen Can't Challenge His Placement on U.S. "Kill List"
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A U.S. judge has sided with the Trump administration and thrown out a
lawsuit filed by an American journalist who believes he was placed on
the U.S. kill list. The journalist, Bilal Abdul Kareem, filed the
lawsuit after claiming he was nearly killed in five U.S. drone and
missile strikes in Syria. The judge allowed the Trump administration to
invoke its state secrets privilege to block the release of information
about its kill list. Abdul Kareem's attorney Tara Plochocki said, "For
the first time ever, a United States federal court ruled that the
government may kill one of its citizens without providing him the
information necessary to prove that he is being wrongly targeted and
does not deserve to die."


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