Zareena Grewal’s op-ed contribution to The New York Times, “When War Comes Close to Home”

October 5, 2015

September 21st, Professor Zareena Grewal’s relatives in Mosul, Iraq were drone-attacked in the middle of the night and four of them died and others were injured. For ten days the US government and US media refused to even acknowledge the attack took place until the NY Times editor told the Pentagon they were going to print her op-ed. The threat of this article is what it took for the Pentagon to admit the attack happened to even consider investigation into civilian losses.

To read Zareena’s article in full please visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/opinion/when-war-comes-close-to-home.html