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The Northerner

(5,040 posts)
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 04:38 PM Jun 2012

TYT: Drone Strikes Strengthening Al-Qaeda



" Across the vast, rugged terrain of southern Yemen, an escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes is stirring increasing sympathy for al-Qaeda-linked militants and driving tribesmen to join a network linked to terrorist plots against the United States. After recent U.S. missile strikes, mostly from unmanned aircraft, the Yemeni government and the United States have reported that the attacks killed only suspected al-Qaeda members. But civilians have also died in the attacks, said tribal leaders, victims' relatives and human rights activists...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more from Sudarsan Raghavan in The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-yemen-us-airstrikes-breed-anger-and-sympathy-for-al-qaeda/2012/05/29/gJQAUmKI0U_story.html?hpid=z2
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TYT: Drone Strikes Strengthening Al-Qaeda (Original Post) The Northerner Jun 2012 OP
That's what they're for. That's how we built them up last time. WriteWrong Jun 2012 #1
Al-Qaeda was almost to the point of being insignificant. A Simple Game Jun 2012 #2
 

WriteWrong

(85 posts)
1. That's what they're for. That's how we built them up last time.
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 08:03 PM
Jun 2012

My hypothetical question for the day:

What is the proper way for a Yemini citizen, having a civilian relative murdered by an illegal drone strike, see to it that the murderer receives the death penalty?

Now, just ASSUME that the people are in fact civilians, and the murderer is guilty. What, then, in the real world, is this citizen supposed to DO about it, and what effect might that action reasonably be expected to have?

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
2. Al-Qaeda was almost to the point of being insignificant.
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 08:22 PM
Jun 2012

Can't have a perpetual war on terror against an insignificant enemy.

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