A pair of US drone strikes in Yemen’s Bayda Province have killed at least 10 people over the weekend, according to Yemeni officials, marking the first drone strikes to be conducted under President Trump, who was inaugurated on Friday.
Both drone strikes were in roughly the same rural area, with the first killing three “suspects” on motorcycles, and the second strike also hitting a vehicle, and killing seven people. Yemeni officials, as they always do, labeled all of the slain “armed fighters of al-Qaeda.”
The reliability of the determinations on who was slain in any given strike has been in substantial doubt during the Saudi war in Yemen, as most of the US special forces who had been spotting targets were withdrawn in the lead-up to the war, and it’s not clear how they get intelligence on who they’re aiming at, apart from hitting vehicles in areas known to have an al-Qaeda presence.
Marking the first strikes under Trump, the drone strikes may suggest that the policy of drone attacks against targets in nations in which the US is not at war is going to continue beyond the Obama Administration. Though drone strikes happened in the waning years of the Bush Administration, they grew substantially under President Obama, becoming a very controversial policy which has fueled anti-US sentiment in several nations that have been targeted.
I guess they fitted the parasitic keeper to Trump’s central nervous system by now. The war(crimes) must go on!
Meet the new Boss…..same as the old Boss.
Yep , , , I guess EVERY President must show how “tough” he is to the military/industrialists! How would Trump and the American people feel if it was a foreign nation that was droning American people? And the people being droned by USA drones aren’t necessarily REAL terrorists but people who may just oppose the repressive government that the USA helps support to repress that nation’s people into subservience to economic colonization! A US President should NEVER have the authority to commit extrajudicial executions! Now, about that phony thing called 911 . . . what are you going to do about that President Trump? If you are looking to fight “terrorism”, look no further than the people right behind and around you in DC who fund, train and support mercenaries disguised as “terrorists”! Cut out the roots and the plant will die!
Keeping his promise to kill families.
We wait and see what actually happens. It’s literally just several days into the Trump era. We hold him to stop these drone strikes.