More of a mass-murder than George Bush, can you believe it?
Is that the change you wanted, America?
"Under Obama, US opts for more killings, not captures, of terrorists" by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post | February 15, 2010
WASHINGTON - When a window of opportunity opened to strike the head of Al Qaeda in East Africa last September, US special operations forces prepared several options. They could obliterate his vehicle with an air strike as he drove through southern Somalia. They could fire from helicopters that could land at the scene to confirm the kill. Or they could try to take him alive.
So which "Al-CIA-Duh" would that be, huh, WaPo?
The made-up "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
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Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?The White House authorized the second option. On the morning of Sept. 14, helicopters flying from a US ship off the Somali coast blew up a car carrying Saleh Ali Nabhan. One set down long enough for troops to scoop up enough of the remains for DNA verification. Moments later, the helicopters were headed back to the ship.
The strike was considered a major success, according to senior administration and military officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the classified operation and other sensitive matters. But the opportunity to interrogate one of the most wanted US terrorism targets was gone forever.
The Nabhan decision was one of a number of similar choices the administration has faced over the past year as President Obama has escalated US attacks on the leadership of Al Qaeda and its allies around the globe. The result has been dozens of targeted killings and no reports of high-value detentions....
The Obama administration has authorized such attacks more frequently than the Bush administration did in its final years, including in countries where US ground operations are officially unwelcome or especially dangerous.
Improvements in electronic surveillance and precision targeting have made killing from a distance more of a sure thing. At the same time, options for where to keep US captives have dwindled....
Yeah, right.
Some military and intelligence officials, citing what they see as a new bias toward kills, questioned whether valuable intelligence is being lost in the process. “We wanted to take a prisoner,’’ a senior military officer said of the Nabhan operation. “It was not a decision that we made.’’
One problem identified by those within and outside the government is the question of where to take captives apprehended outside established war zones and cooperating countries....
Uh-huh.
But it is more of a SURE THING!
"US report faults drone operators in civilian deaths; Grave errors made in air strike that killed 23 Afghans" by Dexter Filkins, New York Times | May 30, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — The US military released a scathing report yesterday on the deaths of 23 Afghan civilians, saying that “inaccurate and unprofessional’’ reporting by a team of Predator drone operators helped lead to an inadvertent air strike this year on a group of innocent men, women, and children....
Well, they are ALL INADVERTENT(?) -- WTF? Like the guy's thumb slipped? -- because they are KILLING ONLY INNOCENTS!!
Sorry, but 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!
NATO forces are wearing out their welcome....
For about nine years now.
The deaths also highlighted the hazards in relying on remotely piloted aircraft to track suspected insurgents.
Gee, the WaPo piece above made it sound like is was a great thing.
In this case, as in many others where drones are employed by the military, the people steering and spotting the targets sat at a console in Creech Air Force Base, Nevada....
Mass-murders at the computer terminals!
Predator drones contain cameras that beam real-time images to their operators and some are armed with missiles. In this case, the operators tracked the convoy for more than three hours but failed to notice the women who were riding along, the report said.
Sure they did -- or they just didn't care.
Did you make your kill quota today?
The report said that two children were spotted near the vehicles, but the Predator operators reported that the convoy contained only military-age men.
After the initial attack, the helicopter’s crew spotted brightly colored clothing, and, suspecting that civilians might have been in the trucks, stopped firing.
So not only are they getting missiles but they are getting machine-gun fire from choppers, 'eh?
Yeah, THAT WILL WIN OVER the AFGHANS!
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