US federal court tosses out lawsuit over Yemeni men killed in drone strike
Source: Reuters
A US federal appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit by the families of two Yemeni men allegedly killed as innocent bystanders in a US drone strike in 2012.
The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit in Washington upheld a lower court’s finding that it lacked the authority to question decision-making by the government over the missile strike.
The case began in 2015 when the families of Salem bin Ali Jaber, an imam, and Waleed bin Ali Jaber, a police officer, filed a “wrongful death” suit against the US government, Barack Obama and other US officials.
They claimed the deaths were collateral damage in an August, 2012, Hellfire missile attack by a US drone in the eastern Yemeni village of Khashamir targeting three extremists, court papers said.
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Reuters in Washington
Friday 30 June 2017 20.50 BST
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/30/yemen-us-drone-strike-lawsuit
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