According to the Los Angeles Times, CIA officials recently confirmed a U.S. drone strike in Yemen killed a young boy in June. The victim was the younger brother of a militant also killed in the attack.
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Despite U.S. efforts to the contrary, civilians in Afghanistan continue to die in American drone strikes, creating a serious impediment to the Obama administration’s plan to keep troops in the country beyond 2014.
The most recent casualty came last week, when a child was reportedly killed in southern Afghanistan as a result of a drone attack.
The child’s death preceded two reports—one Afghan and one American—on a September drone strike that killed multiple civilians.
Back on September 7, a missile fired from a U.S. unmanned aircraft killed 14 Afghans, according to initial reports from locals. American and Afghan officials claimed the attack killed 11. A little later, a coalition source reported 10 had died, all “enemy forces.”
However, the governor of Kunar, Shuja ul Mulk Jalala, told the Los Angeles Times last Friday that four women, four children and three civilian men were killed in the September 7 strike. Jalala added that the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, said three of the victims were suspected Taliban fighters.
“Let me tell you, about 70% of the people in that area, especially in Ganbir village, are Taliban,” Jalala said. “The mullahs and the praying people are all Taliban.”
The next day, Colonel Jane Crichton, director of public affairs for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, said a preliminary investigation had determined three civilians died in the attack, along with eight insurgents.
It was 19-year-old Abdul Ghafar’s pick-up truck that was hit by the drone. The truck carried his mother, brother, sister-in-law and nephew, all of whom were killed. “We have the ID cards of these civilians,” he told the Times. “We have their graves. If someone can prove these were Taliban, I would accept any punishment.”
He insists the U.S. was responsible for the loss of his loved ones, and he now wants vengeance. “If I could attack them, I would.”
For his cousin, farmer Miya Jan, who also lost those relatives in the attack, the incident left him grieving and angry at the U.S.
“There were pieces of my family all over the road,” Jan told the Times. “I picked up those pieces from the road and from the truck and wrapped them in a sheet to bury them.”
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"US drone strike kills 8 in Pakistani school, 5 children dead.
The US breaks its promises so quick with Pakistan it’s scarcely worth mentioning them in the first place.
Just hours after a promise not to launch any more drone strikes against Pakistan for the duration of their peace talks with the Taliban, a US drone pounded a religious school in Hangu.
The attack killed eight people, including three teachers and five students. A number of others were wounded in the attack, and drones continued to loom overhead after the attack."
But wait, we don't make mistakes...
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Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistan Taliban, was the most high-profile target in the past six months. A CIA drone killed him on November 1. He became leader in 2009 when his predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed by US drones. Following this attack, Hakimullah sent a suicide bomber to attack a CIA base in Khost, on the border in Afghanistan.
The attack killed seven CIA officers. He had been wrongly reported to have been killed on at least three previous occasions.
Now remember, Obama decided that they would redefine "civilians" in these attacks. Anyone of fighting age is considered an enemy combatant. Therefore, anyone over 13 years old is considered an enemy combatant...simply because they were in the company of a person we have identified, often mistakenly, as a bad guy.
Obushma...bombing the crap outta' people...because he can.