Yemen? When did we start launching drones in Yemen?
Although, I'm quite pleased that the Obama murder-a-thon continues, raining death and not water (boards) on the heads of our enemies.
I'm also greatly amused that the sane and humane brigades of Obama worshipers are starting to realize that Mr Peace Prize is a extra-judicial murder-machine wielding thug who has no use for the courts or civilian justice. He can't mistreat prisoners because he takes none.
I happen to agree with Obama on this, but for different reasons. He's killing them out of expediency. He's just too lazy to come up with a way to square his values with his actions, so he's taking the easy way out. So is, indirectly, every soft headed liberal who supports him. Slowly, every so slowly, that fact is starting to register with them.
Wait till they serve Awlaki the JDAM de jour, and his supporters realize that Obama killed a U.S. citizen without so much as a trial.
I think 0bummer will step up these attacks (Yemen being the first example), and Special Ops raids, as a means of beefing up his creds in the run up to Nov. 2012 to offset his dismal failures on the domestic front.
“The reported attempt to kill Mr Awlaki is believed to be the first known US military strike within Yemen since May 2010, when missiles mistakenly killed one of Mr Saleh’s envoys.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13319862
we've been using drones there at least as early as this, which is about the time amnesty International and others started to whine about it:
NOVEMBER 3 2002 Sun : (EASTERN YEMEN : CIA DRONE NAILS SOME INTERESTING TERRORISTS, INCLUDING AHMAD HIJAZI aka ALI QAEDA SUNIAN AL HARITHI aka ABU ALI {See OCT 2000 USS COLE BOMBING} -- See BUFFALOCELL/LACKAWANNA6) ----------Yemeni killed in CIA strike tied to alleged N.Y. cell USA Today / AP ^ | 11/9/2002 | Staff, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-11-09-yemeni-buffalo_x.htm
NOVEMBER 2002 : (YEMEN : KAMAL DERWISH, SUSPECTED RINGLEADER OF THE LACKAWANNA 6, GETS TO MEET ALLAH PIECE-BY-PIECE COURTESY OF A CIA DRONE-[WHILE RIDING IN A CAR WITH ONE OF THE PERPS INVOLVED IN THE OCTOBER 2000 BOMBING OF THE USS COLE, A SHIP ON ITS WAY TO ENFORCE SANCTIONS ON IRAQ]) ------Another Lackawanna Arrest; -Businessman will be charged with sending at least $3 million to Yemen Buffalo News ^ | 12/17/2002 | By MICHAEL BEEBE and DAN HERBECK News Staff Reporters, http:/www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20021217/1029070.asp
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My note: The Wash Po of November 8, 2002 says Derwish goes by the alias Ahmed Hijazi
NOVEMBER 7, 2002 Thu : (YEMEN : SOURCES ID ONE OF THE 6 MEN KILLED IN NOV 2002 CIA DRONE STRIKE WAS AMERICAN AHMAD HIJAZI, LEADER OF THE BUFFALO6; ANOTHER WAS ALI QAEDA SUNIAN AL HARITHI aka ABU ALI {MASTERMIND OF 2000 USS COLE BOMBING})