Air strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake:.

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(Reuters) - Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.

The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was a drone.

"An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital," one security official said.

Five more people were injured, the officials said.

How come these drone strikes aren't considered acts of war?
Pretty sure if yemen tried that shit it would be bad.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9BB10O20131212

[Xeones]

How come they don't fight the terrorists them selves?

[Kraenen]

US needs to GET OUT of countries where they haven't even an agreement let alone declared war. They're just going in and killing civilians, and the incredibly high rate of civilian casualties are undoubtedly due to the use of drones.

[Daerio]

How many weddings have we accidentally bombed at this point?

[PACOX]

Unfortunate accident. Yemen needs to stop harboring terrorist. The grim reality is that if their people and government don't out them then other countries are going to be proactive and out them. When that happens mistakes happen.

[Mihalik]

What the fuck is with weddings and the U.S Airforce. They really fucking dislike them. It's like they have a quota of weddings they need to bomb every year.

(Don't misunderstand me, I'm not blaming the grunts, just the whole stupid regional policy.)

[Kraenen]

Unfortunate accident. Yemen needs to stop harboring terrorist. The grim reality is that if their people and government don't out them then other countries are going to be proactive and out them. When that happens mistakes happen.

or maybe respect sovereignty of other countries? what the US has done constitutes a declaration of war. The US needs to either grow some balls and declare war on another small helpless country or stay out.

[Senftw]

'murica, fuck yeahhhhh

Infracted: Please post constructively.

[Naxere]

What the fuck is with weddings and the U.S Airforce. They really fucking dislike them. It's like they have a quota of weddings they need to bomb every year.

They probably thought it was a funeral. We like to bomb those too.

[Deleted]

Fifteen dead civilians. That's a pretty colossal fuck up.

[Daerio]

Fifteen dead civilians. That's a pretty colossal fuck up.

It is, but even worse, this is absolutely nothing new.

[xenogear3]

Going to a wedding will kill you.

[Mihalik]

Unfortunate accident. Yemen needs to stop harboring terrorist. The grim reality is that if their people and government don't out them then other countries are going to be proactive and out them. When that happens mistakes happen.

By that logic you should be bombing Saudi Arabia, not Yemen.

Fact 15 of the 19 Hijackers of the 9/11 attacks were Saudis. Osama bin Laden was Saudi. The entire operation was financed by Saudis. Al Qaeda has its ideological and financial base in Saudi Arabia. Sunnis who make up the majority of fundamental Islamic terrorists are based in Saudi Arabia. Most of Al Qaeda's donations come from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

But we are occupying Afghanistan, invaded Iraq, bombing Pakistan and Yemen.

Yes... can't you smell the bullshit too?

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Yay for patriotism.

[Olo]

How come these drone strikes aren't considered acts of war?

Because Yemen supports the strikes?

What the fuck is with weddings and the U.S Airforce. They really fucking dislike them. It's like they have a quota of weddings they need to bomb every year.

CIA, not airforce.

How come they don't fight the terrorists them selves?

They're trying. Part of their fight includes US drone strikes.

[Kraenen]

Because Yemen supports the strikes?


CIA, not airforce.

no it doesn't.

[Krolikn]

Retards controlling drones. Same old story...

Everyone involved with these drone "mistakes" should be executed.

[Olo]

no it doesn't.

Government sure does. They even take credit for the strikes every now and then.

[herpecin]

anyone else get the feeling that maybe, just maybe arabic weddings look a lot like terrorist convoys?

/sarcasm off

[Solidsteel]

If your country harbors terrorists then there may unfortunately be some unintended consequences.