I'm going to Yemen in a couple of weeks to visit family and to have a well deserved vacation. I will be in Abyen for a few weeks (home of the best predator drone strikes in Yemen). I'm afraid of being killed in a drone strike by the US government.
I was reading Jeremy Scahill's new book "Dirty Wars" and I've come to the conclusion that if Abdurahman Al-Awlaki, a 16 year old US citizen, can be killed by a drone strike from his very own US government (without a charge of a single crime), then I too, can be killed in a drone strike. The only difference between him and I, is that I've already been visited and interviewed by the FBI on March 30th, 2010. I don't know if they think that I'm a terrorist but I believe that they wouldn't have stormed into my home and my workplace if they had thought I wasn't a terrorist.
I've only told a few people about my encounter with the FBI only because I feel that people might look at me differently. I feared being ostracized by people (friends and family alike). Maybe now my comments and tweets would be put under a microscope for the simple fact that I've been visited by the FBI. Some people (haters -- we all have a hater or two in our lives -- some we know and some we don't know) might utilize this information against you. Anybody can call the FBI and claim that you're doing suspicious activity and it would seem plausible if your name is Mohammed or Ahmed or Mohammed Ahmed and if you've been visited by the trench coat boys (the FBI).
So I've decided to just up and say to the world that I've been "visited" by the FBI. In my own eyes, I'm not guilty of any crime nor can I be accused of any crime in the past or in the future (I say future because my intentions are not to commit a crime in the future). But these things haven't stopped the US government from killing (purposely and/or accidentally) its own citizens abroad. So in essence, this is my message to the world if I happen to get killed by a drone or a US missile while I'm in Yemen visiting my family.
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