Three days of US drone strikes and at least one ambush involving US ground troops in Bayda have left scores of people dead across Yemen’s south and east, in what Yemeni officials touted as an unprecedented offensive.
Yemen may be finding it oversold the bloodletting somewhat, however, as now they are faced with 70-plus bodies, who they have all officially labeled “suspects,” and none of them has actually been identified yet.
US officials cited a “sniffer dog” as having confirmed one of the ambush slain was Ibraham al-Asiri, and Yemen is frantically running DNA tests on the bodies hoping one of them actually is Asiri, because if not that’s just more egg on their face.
Officials say it is conceivable that either Asiri or AQAP militant Nasser al-Wahayshi are among the slain, and while the official Yemeni response to attacks usually begins and ends with labeling everyone “suspects,” the sheer number of dead virtually obliges them to find evidence of someone meaningful slain.
As in the U.S., there is no due process in Yemen.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that 95% of those who got wasted in the drone attacks and the supposed subsequent land assault will be belatedly identified as terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. Noticed that a body count for the kill squad event didn't provide a body count. Was it a small truck…or a large truck…or a bicycle…or a bus?
The Yemen government, oops,(puppets) are working in tandem with their masters so it's only natural that 95% of those murdered will be labeled as terrorist.
Even if the (alleged) target wasn't among the victims, the stenographers
in the US corporate media will label those killed as terror (supporters).
You might also hear a clip from a bozo telling us it's (better) to fight
(them) over there than here.