It really saddens me when I read these stories. I’m so determined to do some good in the world, maybe to balance out all the evil performed by our government:
(Reuters) – Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.
The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was a drone.
“An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital,” one security official said.
Five more people were injured, the officials said.
The United States has stepped up drone strikes as part of a campaign against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), regarded by Washington as the most active wing of the militant network.
Our government. Part of the problem that we’ve had with Iran over the past several years is related to ex-FBI agent Bob Levinson. (A Zionist warmonger??) Levinson was arrested in March 2007 (Bush) by the Iranians for being a CIA operative and for “stirring up trouble” inside Iran. In June 2009 the so-called “Green Revolution” erupted in Iran. You don’t suppose that there was some connection between Levinson’s CIA activities and that uprising do you? To answer that question a little research on the CIA’s roll in both the uprising in Libya and in Syria is enlightening. It’s interesting to note that two weeks after Levinson was arrested the Iranians detained 15 British Royal Navy commandoes whose boat had violated Iranian territorial waters. As the old saying goes, “you will reap what you sow.”
15 to 0 collateral damage to targeted individuals; Not an ‘effective’ program by anyone’s definition.