Some of these blips require some sort of explanation—and some of the official explanations—like for the Kennedy and King assassinations of the sixties, like for the events of September 11—produce an entire subculture involved in shredding the official explanations.

Others, however, do not generate Warren Reports, etc. because there is simply no explanation possible. While these events may indeed get some media coverage, they are generally relegated to positions "below the fold" and little explanation or commentary is given.

In the spirit of further examining one such event, which spanned a number of years but wound its way to a legal—that is, an "official"—conclusion in 2021, this article will attempt to further highlight the significance of a court case involving Bilal Abdul Kareem.

If your gut response to his name is to think that he is some Middle Eastern goatherd or a Gitmo detainee, you should know right off the bat that Kareem is US born and bred. He was born in New York—his birth name was Darrell Phelps—and he attended CUNY before converting to Islam. He was covering the civil war in Syria, for such outlets as CNN and Al Jazeera, when he was attacked and nearly blown up in a drone attack.

When it happened again, and again, and again, Kareem came to the logical conclusion that he was targeted for assassination. As at least one of the attacks on him involved deployment of an identifiable US weapon, a Hellfire missile, he became concerned that he was being targeted by the US government.