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US-Backed Bombing Campaign Strikes Yemeni Wedding Party, Killing Dozens
http://www.juancole.com/2015/09/campaign-wedding-killing.htmlUS-Backed Bombing Campaign Strikes Yemeni Wedding Party, Killing Dozens
By contributors | Sep. 29, 2015
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org)
Monday's accidental attack on a Yemeni wedding party drew references to the United States’ December 2013 drone bombing of another wedding party in Yemen, which resulted in the death of the 15 people.
Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes “mistakenly” struck a wedding party in Yemen early Monday killing at least 38 people, many of which were women and children.
The U.S.-backed coalition was purportedly targeting Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, when it bombed a celebration in al-Wahga, a village near the strategic Strait of Bab al-Mandab. One senior government official declared the two airstrikes a “mistake.”
According to the BBC, “First reports from the village said that 12 women, eight children and seven men had been killed, with dozens more wounded, when the air strike hit two tents during a wedding for a local man linked to the Houthi group.”
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