US drone strike in Yemen allegedly kills local al-Qaida leader and four others
Source: AP
A US drone strike targeting an al-Qaida leader in Yemen has killed five militants in the country's south, according to local officials.
The air strike was aimed at Qaid al-Dahab, a local leader of al-Qaida, who was travelling in a convoy of three cars near the town of Radda, 100 miles of the capital, Sana'a.
Yemeni authorities said four militants were wounded in the attack. The officials said al-Dahab's fate was not yet known.
The alleged terrorist's sister was the wife of Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born radical militant cleric killed by a US drone strike last fall.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/28/us-drone-strike-yemen-al-qaida
Enrique
(27,461 posts)let's declare victory and end the war.
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)Nine degrees of nifty, indeed, and a truly appropriate way to honor the memorial day holiday.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)...in how many countries are we killing people with drones?
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia? Is that it?
Nihil
(13,508 posts)That means that instead of declaring wars, you just get your Xbox jockeys
to bomb the shit out of random countries.
If anyone else were to attempt this, they would be declared "terrorists".
mikekohr
(2,312 posts)we will quit flying Hellfire missles through their windshields.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)So where's your justification of your thirst for blood now then war-pig?
(And that's without going into any of the other reasons why your post was crap.)
mikekohr
(2,312 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)By militant, the Obama administration literally means nothing more than: any military-age male whom we kill, even when we know nothing else about them. They have no idea whether the person killed is really a militant: if theyre male and of a certain age they just call them one in order to whitewash their behavior and propagandize the citizenry (unless conclusive evidence somehow later emerges proving their innocence).
What kind of self-respecting media outlet would be party to this practice? Heres the New York Times documenting that this is what the term militant means when used by government officials. Any media outlet that continues using it while knowing this is explicitly choosing to be an instrument for state propaganda not that thats anything new, but this makes this clearer than its ever been.
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/singleton/