Nach den Raketen ist vor den Raketen..
Erst vor kurzem hat das US-Militär in einem Dorf in Pakistan 18 Menschen ermordet. Die Nachricht wurde schon damals durch die Spekulation verwaschen, ob Sawahiri sich unter den Toten befand, obwohl sich zu dem Zeitpunkt die USA noch nicht zum Anschlag bekannt hatte. Trotz internationaler Proteste ob dieser Vorgehensweise, weicht die US-Administration nicht von ihrer Haltung zurück, dass andere Länder kein Recht auf territoriale Unabhängigkeit haben:
The strike against Zawahiri reportedly killed as many as 18 civilians, many of them women and children, and triggered protests in Pakistan. Similar U.S. attacks using unmanned Predator aircraft equipped with Hellfire missiles have angered citizens and political leaders in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen.
Little is known about the targeted-killing program. The Bush administration has refused to discuss how many strikes it has made, how many people have died, or how it chooses targets. No U.S. officials were willing to speak about it on the record because the program is classified.
Several U.S. officials confirmed at least 19 occasions since Sept. 11 on which Predators successfully fired Hellfire missiles on terrorist suspects overseas, including 10 in Iraq in one month last year. The Predator strikes have killed at least four senior Al Qaeda leaders, but also many civilians, and it is not known how many times they missed their targets.
[via underthesamesun.org]
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