U.S. drone attack kills 6, wounds scores in Yemen, officials say

[tekisui]

Source: Washington Post

By Mohammed Al-Qadhi, Published: July 15

SANAA, Yemen — Six people were killed and about 40 wounded by a U.S. drone missile attack in Yemen’s restive southern province of Abyan, security officials and tribal leaders said Friday.

The victims of the Thursday airstrike were believed to be Islamist militants in al-Wadhi district suspected of having links with al-Qaeda, they said.

The officials, who asked not to be identified, said the fighters escaped from Mudiah district in Abyan after tribal forces pushed them away from that region. The involvement of tribal forces in the effort against the militants is a possibly significant development in southern Yemen, where there has been a growing separatist movement.

The fighters fled to al-Wadhi, which is the home area of Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who is acting as head of state while President Ali Abdullah Saleh undergoes medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/us-drone-attack-kills-6-wounds-scores-in-yemen-officials-say/2011/07/15/gIQA7IE6FI_story.html

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. I read an early report that the drone killed 50

I think its an international crime either way

[tekisui]

2. There was one in Pakistan that killed 50.

The news out of Yemen is hard to get. We have killed over 160 this year, but I haven't seen a recent report of 50 dead from a Yemen strike.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. It was in Yemen but I waited until another link

happened. My link came out of the middle east.


BTW this might interest you on the drone wars
it came from the guardian



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=439&topic_id=1501709&mesg_id=1501709

[tekisui]

4. I saw (and posted) that article.

I hope the succeed.

:hi:

[bvar22]

5. And for THIS great achievement,

we will dismantle the New Deal and the Fair Deal, and The Great Society,
and impoverish America's Working Class.

Thanks.



Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

[bvar22]

6. K&R back UP to +5,

because there are people at DU who don't want YOU to have this information.