Reports are now saying that the Ethiopian plane that crashed had 22 UN relief workers on board.
The relief workers might also have been targets (knew too much).
Remember, too, that when the DS takes someone out, they don’t care how many they take along with them. So any or all of passengers could have been a target with the rest just being “collateral damage”.
One thing I’ve come to believe is that our guys do not “take someone out”. Our guys arrest people and put them on trial. They follow proper legal procedures. I’m not saying that the good guys never fire a weapon, but I am confident that they don’t assassinate anyone. If someone dies in a shootout, that’s different.
I have always had a serious moral issue with “assassination” even if it’s someone totally evil. (That’s a DS argument: “for the greater good”, “the ends justify the means”.) So when I realized (and I fervently hope I’m right on this) that the good guys don’t do this, that strengthened my already fierce support for our team.
So when I hear about “Arkancide” types of deaths, FFs, suspicious plane crashes, non-accidental “accidents”, I always know the DS is behind it.
I make the assumption that you have no issue with the US mil killing guys in war. This is war, they are unlawful combatants. See