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Common Dreams reports:
The U.S. government's so-called "pinpoint"(NYT paywall) drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen are, in fact, leaving wide perimeters of death, as people on the Kill List are targeted--and even reported dead--again and again, according to a report published Monday by the UK-based charity Reprieve.
While drone attacks and their victims are kept secret by the U.S. military and government, Reprieve compiled public information available, most of it from media reports and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, to determine who actually died when the U.S. went after individuals in Yemen and Pakistan between November 2002 and November 2014.
The study examines the cases of 41 people included on a Kill List--a classified U.S. assassination program personally approved by President Obama with no judicial or public oversight. According to the report's findings, up to 1,147 unnamed people were killed in pursuit of these 41 known individuals.
Furthermore, each of these 41 men was reported killed multiple times.
"This raises a stark question," states the study. "With each failed attempt to assassinate a man on the Kill List, who filled the body bag in his place?
(Score: 0, Troll) by frojack on Wednesday November 26 2014, @11:24PM
Yes, yes, we all know that every group of terrorists shooting in the at aircraft air is instantly categorize as a wedding.
Run along son, stop being a useful idiot for these people.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @02:07AM
You're that guy from Robin Hood Men in Tights, aren't you? Let's see...
Yup, that's about as coherent as your ranting.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday November 27 2014, @06:01AM
You really just digging yourself in with the willful ignorance aren't you?
I guess the lottery payouts for the survivors were the Yemeni government just funding terrorism right? [washingtonpost.com]
* This incident is really just hilarious for people like you. They killed the man's son at the wedding, and they had been actively working on pro-Western goals and defeating terrorists in Yemen. I guess they were double agents!! Thankfully, the father is probably not still pretending to support the US *
Here's some journalism from the other side of the world [aljazeera.com]
You know I initially thought the drone strikes were a very good thing too. Then I kept hearing about the fuckups. One after the other.
I guess you're right... I mean what's a few dead bodies of children and allies as long as get that "reasonable" certainty that a terrorist gets killed?
Pull your head out of your ass. The people using these weapons systems are clueless heartless morons.
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