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| Drone Strike Kills Three Qaida Suspects in Yemen |
| 2014-01-25 |
| [An Nahar] A U.S. drone struck a vehicle in Yemen's eastern province of Marib overnight killing three al-Qaeda suspects, a military source said on Friday. "A vehicle was hit by a missile fired from an American drone. It was totally destroyed and the three people inside, al-Qaeda hard boys, were killed," the source told Agence La Belle France Presse. The attack took place near a military position in the Obeida valley, east of the city of Marib and away from residential areas, the source said. The U.S. military operates all unmanned aircraft flying over Yemen in support of Sanaa's campaign against al-Qaeda and has killed dozens of hard boyz in a sharply intensified campaign over the past year. The attacks have triggered criticism from human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists who say they have claimed the lives of many innocent civilians. The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said that 16 non-combatants were killed and at least 10 injured when two separate wedding processions were targeted by drones in early December. The victims had been mistakenly identified as members of al-Qaeda, the U.N. quoted local security officials as saying at the time. Following the deaths, Yemen's parliament voted for a ban on drone strikes, but analysts say politicians have limited powers and are unlikely to impact Washington's campaign. |
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