Suspected US drone strike kills three al-Qaida operatives in Yemen report

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Source: The Guardian and agencies

Suspected US drone strike kills three al-Qaida operatives in Yemen – report

Staff and agencies
Sunday 23 April 2017 18.34 BST

Tribal and security officials said on Sunday a suspected US airstrike had killed three al-Qaida operatives on Yemen’s southern coast.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, said the operatives killed in Shabwa province on Sunday were driving a car when an unmanned aircraft targeted their vehicle. Their bodies were not immediately identified.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap), long seen by Washington as among the most dangerous branches of the global terror network, has exploited the chaos of the Yemen civil war, seizing territory in the south and east.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/23/us-drone-strike-al-qaida-yemen

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1. "Unidentified bodies", but immediately labelled as Al-Qaeda operatives.

If the US kills them, they must be terrorists. Even if they are US citizens, or 8 years old, or working in a hospital in Fallujah.

Orwell would understand and Big Brother would approve.