US terror drone kills 3 in south Yemen
A US assassination drone attack has killed three people in Yemen’s al-Bayda’ province as Washington continues its terror operations overseas.
On Saturday, a US drone attacked a Land Cruiser in el-Manaseh village near the Radda district, The Associated Press reported. A Yemeni security official claimed the men killed in the attack, the fourth such strike this week, were al-Qaeda militants. Earlier this week, another US drone strike killed two militants in the same province. Elsewhere, seven others were killed in two other drone operations in the southeastern province of Hadramawt. Statistics gathered by the Long War Journal prior to the Saturday attack show that the United States "is known to have carried out 41 airstrikes" in Yemen in 2102, which is an average of around three to four strikes per month. The Journal says that since December 2009, the CIA and the US military's Joint Special Operations Command have conducted more than 54 air and missile strikes in Yemen. Washington claims the targets of the attacks are al-Qaeda militants, but local officials and witnesses maintain that civilians have been the main victims of the attacks over the past few years. The United States also carries out targeted killings through drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia.
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