Drone Strikes Killing More Civilians Than the U.S. Acknowledges

[decocker 7,198]

"Amnesty International investigated nine U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan between May 2012 and July 2013. According to the group, more than 30 civilians were killed in just four of the strikes.

One such strike killed 10 civilians, including a 14-year-old, who were, at the time they were bombed, eating dinner inside a tent. Several minutes later, as rescuers arrived to treat the wounded, another missile attack struck the site, killing eight more civilians.

“The drones are like the angels of death,” Nazeer Gul, a shopkeeper in the village Miram Shah in Pakistan, where at least 19 civilians have been killed since January 2012, told the New York Times. “Only they know when and where they will strike.”

The Human Rights Watch, which conducted a separate investigation in Yemen, found that at least 57 civilians were killed in six attacks between 2009 and 2013, including 41 in a 2009 strike that was based on bad information from the Yemeni government.

And a 2012 airstrike in Yemen destroyed a mini-bus, killing a pregnant woman, three children, and eight others. That attack was also blamed on faulty intelligence from the Yemeni government, which compensated the victim's families.

The studies come just four days after a U.N. human rights investigator released a report on drone strikes in Pakistan. According to the the investigator, Ben Emmerson, about 2,200 people have been killed by drone strikes in Pakistan over the past decade, including at least 400 civilians and 200 “probable non-combatants.”

http://gawker.com/drone-strikes-killing-more-civilians-than-the-u-s-ackn-1449924002

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

hence my avatar....

[decocker 7,198]

hence my avatar....

for the time being, i think you're safe. now if you were over there across an ocean in one of them, middleish, easternish brownish areas ...

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

for the time being, i think you're safe. now if you were over there across an ocean in one of them, middleish, easternish brownish areas ...

not really safe. i'm a registered republican and a firearm owner.

[decocker 7,198]

i'm a registered republican and a firearm owner.

i thought that was the only way to be safe in the us of a. guns and pubs travel in packs..(with guns)

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

i thought that was the only way to be safe in the us of a. guns and pubs travel in packs..(with guns)

that's what they (the government) wants you to think. spread out so they can't get all of you with one shot.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

"Amnesty International investigated nine U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan between May 2012 and July 2013. According to the group, more than 30 civilians were killed in just four of the strikes.

One such strike killed 10 civilians, including a 14-year-old, who were, at the time they were bombed, eating dinner inside a tent. Several minutes later, as rescuers arrived to treat the wounded, another missile attack struck the site, killing eight more civilians.

“The drones are like the angels of death,” Nazeer Gul, a shopkeeper in the village Miram Shah in Pakistan, where at least 19 civilians have been killed since January 2012, told the New York Times. “Only they know when and where they will strike.”

The Human Rights Watch, which conducted a separate investigation in Yemen, found that at least 57 civilians were killed in six attacks between 2009 and 2013, including 41 in a 2009 strike that was based on bad information from the Yemeni government.

And a 2012 airstrike in Yemen destroyed a mini-bus, killing a pregnant woman, three children, and eight others. That attack was also blamed on faulty intelligence from the Yemeni government, which compensated the victim's families.

The studies come just four days after a U.N. human rights investigator released a report on drone strikes in Pakistan. According to the the investigator, Ben Emmerson, about 2,200 people have been killed by drone strikes in Pakistan over the past decade, including at least 400 civilians and 200 “probable non-combatants.”

http://gawker.com/drone-strikes-killing-more-civilians-than-the-u-s-ackn-1449924002

Could they please go back to killing Terrorist with Hellfires from Apaches so the Liberals will shut up.

i thought that was the only way to be safe in the us of a. guns and pubs travel in packs..(with guns)

Travel in packs

Written by someone with a poor understanding of tactics

You should always take the same route..There and back

[decocker 7,198]

Travel in packs

Written by someone with a poor understanding of tactics

You should always take the same route..There and back

i guess you should talk to charles about republican modus operandi.

Could they please go back to killing Terrorist innocent civilians with Hellfires from Apaches.

fixed.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

i guess you should talk to charles about republican modus operandi.

fixed.

You know sometimes in War the innocent get killed along side the combatants. Sucks but that s war.

[decocker 7,198]

You know sometimes in War the innocent get killed along side the combatants. Sucks but that s war.

right. it's that simple.