President Obama on Friday acknowledged the "legitimate criticism" of U.S. drone strikes in the Middle East that have caused civilian deaths. At the same time, he said the U.S. has now "constructed a fairly rigid and vigorous set of criteria" to justify continued drone strikes that kill wh...
promises "a critical examination of the factual evidence concerning civilian casualties." That holds out the chance of creating, for the first time, an internationally established standard for the number of noncombatants who have died in drone strikes and commando raids, the subject of fierce ...
Drone Strike on Seminary Safe Haven Reignites Debate; Obama Promised Efforts to Limit Civilian Casualties
drone strike can, by this definition, be counted as a civilian. [133af] Another facet of the administration’s publicity campaign is the paradoxical status of the CIA drone campaign’s very existence as a state secret. The administration reveals politically beneficial information about strikes ...
So it’s unclear whether the Obama administration’s drone strikes have killed 100 innocents, 300 innocents, or over 1000 innocents. Part of the discrepancy involves who is a “militant” and who is an innocent civilian. The U.S. government tends to count all military-age males killed in ...
Additionally, 12 women, five of them pregnant, were also among those who were murdered in this strike. These blundered acts of murder by not only President Obama, but the U.S. government, are morally reprehensible.Even more civilian casualties came out of Afghanistan throughout Barack Obama’s...
An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.(Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP) Drones kept U.S. soldiers out of harm’s way and they were, arguably, more humane than other weapons because they could help find and kill specific individuals and limit civilian ca...
US bombing raids in Yemen are almost solely carried out by drones and they have been increasing in intensity in recent years. However rights groups are becoming concerned that far too many civilian casualties are occurring as a result of America’s so-called “War on Terror.”A report by Hum...
Highlights: Obama's proposed budget for the State Department and U.S. foreign assistance calls for spending $11.8 billion for civilian operations and aid in Iraq ($4.8 billion), Afghanistan ($4.6 billion) and Pakistan ($2.4 billion). It retains major military aid programs to Israel, which wi...
collateral damage “will haunt us for as long as we live,” the president said, but he emphasized that the targeted individuals aim to exact indiscriminate violence, “and the death toll from their acts of terrorism against Muslims dwarfs any estimate of civilian casualties from drone strikes.”...