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October 22nd, 2013 01:47 PM ET By  Mustafa Qadri , Special to CNN Editor’s note: Mustafa Qadri is Amnesty International’s Pakistan researcher. The views expressed are his own. It was a sunny October afternoon last year when Mamana Bibi was blown to pieces before her grandchildren’s very eyes. The family matriarch, Mamana Bibi was picking vegetables in the family fields in northwestern Pakistan when a remotely piloted aircraft – or “drone” – used by the United States fired a missile directly toward her, killing Mamana instantly. A second volley of missiles was fired a few minutes later, injuring some of the children who ventured out to where their grandmother had been struck. Almost a year to the day, the Bibi family’s lives have been torn apart. In a number of in-depth interviews over the last eight months, the family recounted to me how they sold ancestral lands to pay for their injured relatives’ steep medical bills. Mamana’s grief-stricken elderly husb...

By: Ayesha Nasir Have you heard of  Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi ? Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi was a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who lived in a house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village to the west of the town of  Al-Mahmudiyah, Iraq . She lived a middle-class life with her 34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhsin, 45-year-old father Qasim Hamza Raheem, two brothers and younger sister, six-year-old Hadeel Qasim Hamza. Though not much is known about  Abeer , one can imagine her childhood; playing with rag dolls, following her mother as she made khameeri rotis and tossing one pebble after another in a stream running near their house. ol but kept Abeer home due to security concerns. Neighbours later recalled that she wasn’t allowed to do much other than assist her mother in the chores and tend to their vegetable garden. Their house was only 200 meters away from a US traffic checkpoint, and the neighbours later remarked that they often observed the soldiers watchi...

Wahhabi movement From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Salafi Movement Central figures Ibn Taymiyyah Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Organizations Al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda in Iraq Jamat ud dawa Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb Authenticity Party Al-Nour Party People Party Trends Madkhalism · Qutbism Salafist jihadism Notable individuals Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen Muhammad Abduh Jamal al-Din al-Afghani Rashid Rida Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz Related Ideologies Islamic fundamentalism Takfiri Wahhabism Ahle Hadith Wahhabism  ( Arabic :  وهابية ‎,  Wahhābiyyah ) is an ultra-conservative [1]  branch of  Sunni Islam , [2] [3]  (though some people dispute that a Wahhabi is a Sunni). [4]  It is a  religious movement  among  fundamentalist Islamic  believers, with an aspiration to return to the earliest fundamental Islamic sources of the  Quran ...