Early last week, US officials began hyping the potential killing of alleged al-Qaeda bombmaking mastermind Ibrahim al-Asiri, who they identified as having been killed in an ambush by US ground troops in Yemen.
At the time, they claimed a sniffer dog was brought in and positively identified one of the corpses as that of Asiri, but Yemen has finally gotten around to conducting an actual DNA test, and the results show it’s not Asiri.
Yemen apparently sent the DNA to Saudi Arabia, where they had the DNA on file of Ibrahim’s brother, who died in a suicide bomb attack. There was no match between the two, however.
Officials say they were unable to get a DNA confirmation of either Asiri or Nasser al-Wuhayshi from any of the scores of slain “suspects” from the US attacks, a disappointment for them. Completely ignored in this is the fact that the US killed those scores of people on the assumption Asiri was one of them, and not a single one has ever been identified.
This further highlights the depravity of assassinating suspects with drones.
In the "free world" (the world's biggest jailer – by far), we give peace prizes to terrorists (obama) and medals of freedom to genocidal maniac mass murderers (madeleine albright).
Well, whoever he was he must have been up to no good or else they wouldn't have killed him, right? We don't even need to know his name or what he did because he fit the pattern and that's close enough, right?
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How long will the American people remain silent while their government wantonly murdered people based on assumption?
Ooops! Looks like Obama used the (same) sniffer dog Bush used to find those WMDs
Saddam was said to have stockpiled in Iraq.
So what else is new? Why would anybody believe the US ever? Who knows if any of the people are even real? It really doesn't matter to anyone. Americans just love to hear they are killing poor third world brown skinned people. It makes them feel powerful and special. They are nearly all sociopaths. Why even go through this charade? Just go back to Iraq glory days of killing second in commands again every other week. Even if this was the guy we would probably just kill him again in another month when our bombs drop on another wedding party.