Drone Report: US Must Account for 'Turning Wedding Into a Funeral'

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/20-4



Human Rights Watch charges that deadly drone strike on wedding convoy casts doubt on Obama's claim civilians are spared

Drone Report: US Must Account for 'Turning Wedding Into a Funeral'
- Sarah Lazare, staff writer
Published on Thursday, February 20, 2014 by Common Dreams

A U.S. drone strike on a recent wedding procession in Yemen — that left 12 people dead and at least 15 wounded — raises serious doubts about the Obama administration's claim that so-called targeted killings do not harm civilians, charged Human Rights Watch in a report released Thursday.

Entitled A Wedding That Became a Funeral: US Drone Attack on Marriage Procession in Yemen, the 28-page report demands that the U.S. government investigate the incident and publicly account for any slaughter of civilians or violation of international law.

“The U.S. refusal to explain a deadly attack on a marriage procession raises critical questions about the administration’s compliance with its own targeted killing policy,” said Letta Tayler, senior terrorism and counterterrorism researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the report. “All Yemenis, especially the families of the dead and wounded, deserve to know why this wedding procession became a funeral.”

The report decribes in harrowing detail the December 12th, 2013 launch of four hellfire missiles at a wedding procession near the city of Rad’a.

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1. Didn't that happen in Iraq often under Bush?