The Life & Drone Death of an Accused Terrorist with The Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher

Bilal el-Berjawi was a suspected associate of senior Al Qaeda leadership in East Africa until he was killed by a drone strike in Somalia. Leaked Pentagon documents showed surveillance of al-Berjawi for years by the US, and an exchange of information with the British government used to facilitate his execution in Africa. We discuss the case of el-Berjawi-who was dubbed “Objective Peckham” by intelligence agencies-and the implications of England and the US killing their own citizens abroad with drone strikes, with the Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher in this Lip News interview, hosted by Elliot Hill.

Read the Intercept article HERE.

Guest Bio

Ryan Gallagher is an award-winning Scottish journalist whose work at The Intercept is focused on government surveillance, technology, and civil liberties. His reporting has appeared in publications including Slate, The Guardian, Ars Technica, Huffington Post, The Sydney Morning Herald,The Financial Times, The Independent, and The New Statesman. Since 2011, Ryan has broken a series of national and international stories about controversial surveillance technologies, shining a light on spy agencies and uncovering links between western technology firms and governments in repressive countries. He is a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and he graduated with a master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2010.