Air Strike Kills 15 Civilians in Yemen by Mistake
December 13th, 2013This is worth seeing:
Via: Reuters:
Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.
The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was a drone.
“An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital,” one security official said.
Five more people were injured, the officials said.
The United States has stepped up drone strikes as part of a campaign against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), regarded by Washington as the most active wing of the militant network.
Yemen, AQAP’s main stronghold, is among a handful of countries where the United States acknowledges using drones, although it does not comment on the practice.
Horrible. The terrorism that these people live under, never knowing when one of these air strikes may reign down death and destruction, is one of the biggest hypocritical atrocities of the War on Terror. Obomba a village to save it. Not that this is news to Cryptogon readers….
However, I would seriously question Jeremy Scahill’s true agenda. Scott Creighton’s blog provides some decent illumination regarding Scahill’s rise to stardom and all the important facts left OUT of his celebrated, self-indulgent “Dirty Wars” docudrama, not there isn’t truth in it, but that Scahill is clearly another limited hangout artist keeping the left placated:
Jeremy Scahill’s True Colors Bleeding Through (or “Poo On Fire”)
Dirty Wars and Self-indulgence
Max Keiser Exposes the Fraud of Jeremy Scahill’s Dirty Wars