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U.N. Asks U.S. To Justify Latest "Cruel, Inhuman" Drone Attack That Killed 15 Yemen Civilians In A Wedding
Imagine, if you will, that you and your 15 closest unarmed, civilian friends are celebrating a young couple who has just started their lives together, and are on your way to their wedding party, when all of a sudden a remote-controlled US killing machine drops several air-to-surface tactical missiles on your group and kills you before you have a chance to blink. Macabre as it sounds, this is precisely what happened in the conflict-torn (courtesy of the CIA) republic of Yemen last month when a US drone mistakenly killed 15 people.
The US justification: the 15 civilians were mistaken for an Al Qaeda convoy (good thing this was not in Syria, where such an Al Qaeda convoy would have received US arms and funding), and in keeping with the US "superpower" walkthrough, the missiles were launched first, and questions would be asked later if ever. And while this happens daily around the globe (remember: they hate America for its freedoms, not because it rains hellfire on civilians without reason), this time the United Nations human rights watch actually had the temerity of calling out the US on its latest act of mass murder.
Reuters has the full story:
United Nations human rights experts told the United States and Yemen on Thursday to say whether they were complicit in drone attacks that mistakenly killed civilians in wedding processions this month.
The independent experts questioned the legitimacy of drone attacks under international law and said the governments should reveal what targeting procedures were used.
Local security officials said on December 12 that 15 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. 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.
Stressing the need for accountability and payment to victims' families, the U.N. statement issued in Geneva said that two attacks, on two separate wedding processions, killed 16 and wounded at least 10 people.
"If armed drones are to be used, states must adhere to international humanitarian law, and should disclose the legal basis for their operational responsibility and criteria for targeting," said Christof Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Poor Yemen, unclear that others' sovereignty does not matter to the US, voiced a feeble protest: "Yemen cannot consent to violations of the right to life of people in its territory," he added." Good luck with non-consenting.
However, it was the UN that surprised onlookers with one of the harshest condemnations of what is essentially unaccountable murder by an American remote-control plane, controlled from thousands of miles away:
Juan Mendez, U.N. special rapporteur on torture, voiced concern about the legitimacy of the airstrikes. Each state was obliged to undertake due investigation into the reported incidents, including their effect on civilians, he said.
"A deadly attack on illegitimate targets amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment if, as in this case, it results in serious physical or mental pain and suffering for the innocent victims," Mendez said.
Wait, so cruel, inhuman and degra.... oh look, another all time high for the S&P! Quick BTFATH, and ignore all this irrelevant "stuff."
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I'm guessing they're pretty fucking relevant for the victims and their families. Maybe the question to be asked is 'are they in any way morally justifiable or ethical?'
"The US justification: the 15 civilians were mistaken for an Al Qaeda convoy (good thing this was not in Syria, where such an Al Qaeda convoy would have received US arms and funding"
What have we become? Exactly what most of us have feared for years, a political shitshow dominated by bankster elites using Orwell as a manual.. I fear for our children's futures.
How long before everyone decides it's safer to get married in Syria?
"I fear for our children's futures."
PSST! They belong to the banking underworld, they're assured that, as long as they maintain proper debt levels (high) they will be kept alive. Thought that by telling you this you might then worry a bit less...
Sounds like we may need to bring the UN some democracy, fire up those drones boys, we have some freedom to deliver!
Not that I have info specific on it in these cases, but people need to keep in mind that there's the UN and then there's the UN "Security Council." The later is pretty much controlled by the handful of folks who are the biggest arms dealers and users (http://www.un.org/en/sc/members/). And, keep in mind how important it is to have Togo as one of the non-permanent members!
Nothing like yet another "Misidentification" friendly fire excuse - just drone a UN Convoy (carefully chosen to be carring officials whose opinions do not "Toe the Party Line" per US Policy).
http://listverse.com/2012/11/03/8-worst-cases-of-friendly-fire/: One wonders whether Dwight Eisenhower would have been so keen on using live ammunition if he, or his relatives, were taking part in Exercise Tiger. . . . . . (only 308 extra dead - who cares!)
[wailing]
FATHER: Well, this is the main hall. We're going to have all this knocked through, and made into one big, uh, living room.
RANDOM: There he is!
FATHER: Oh, bloody hell.
LAUNCELOT: Ha-ha! etc.
[more carnage and mayhem]
FATHER: Hold it, hold it! Please!
LAUNCELOT: Sorry, sorry. See what I mean, I just get carried away. I really must -- sorry, sorry! Sorry, everyone.
RANDOM: He's killed the best man!
[yelling]
FATHER: Hold it, please! Hold it! This is Sir Launcelot from the court of Camelot -- a very brave and influential knight, and my special guest here today.
LAUNCELOT: Hello.
RANDOM: He killed my auntie! ...
FATHER: Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who. We are here today to witness the union of two young people in the joyful bond of the holy wedlock. Unfortunately, one of them, my son Herbert, has just fallen to his death. But I don't want to think I've lost a son, so much as... gained a daughter! For, since the tragic death of her father--
[yelling]
FATHER: Please, please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion!
RANDOM: He's not quite dead!
Crime against humanity. Obama should be hung by his small penis. One day the pope will be droned for being too popular.
I fear your comments about the Pope may become the proverbial "troublesome priest" and may be assassinated for his works. See more on this at: http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=396
I'm not a fan of pope-ism, but I kind of get the impression that this guy is about as decent as there could be. It's always possible... (stranger things have happened)
Same here. Exactly.
the world has gone mad because
terrorist number one has won a Nobel peace prize
He's not the first war criminal to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Don't forget Henry the K (who is still vaguely breathing). Why the fuck the guy who improved the ability for men to kill each other in war with better high explosives should be beatified beats me.
That puke should be beat&fried.
We did it because we want to, and there isn't a damn thing the rest of of the world will do about it except bitch. While they are bitching about it we will toss them some FRNs to wipe away their sorrows.
The whole thing is fucked up. We are supposed killing terrorist threats in foreign countries, but "accidentally" killing innocents, and then we try to pay them off which has to be some sort of insult and which they will likely use the funds to seek revenge. We couldn't build a better disaster if we tried. Its all too stupid to be stupidity.
Bingo!!!
Well, we've got those armaments with "Best By" dates and, well, when armaments start spoiling they really start to smell bad...
Send the bill to Campbell Soups.
Somebody misiterpreted the gift registry.
It was supposed to be missives, and flowers.
Sad that this is so despicable you have to make a joke about it.
Makes you wish a hell existed for these cowardly, sick MF's. playing some video game with human targets.
Seems Obozo can only do wrong right.
I believe that a jealous man who was spurned by the bride called in to report terrorists with weapons at the wedding ceremony.
Maybe the fellow could report drug-crazed rebels in the White House?
Sure, like that "accident" could ever happen...
I wonder if the Hellfire missle is cheaper than buying them a toaster for a present
They all die in the end, even the toasters.
They are just refining the technique on foreigners so that when they deploy the drones against innocent US citizens who do not freely abandon liberty in favor of being Uncle Sam's slaves the drones will be most effective.
Will they fire on gay wedding parties in the USSA also?
depleted uranium missile drone kill is cancer death forever.
a holiday gift from ge and the rothschild family.
the power is not in the split second colaterall
but in the toxic half life legacy running into millions of years.
President Obama, remember the Nobel Peace Prize winner that received this prize for doing nothing, but BEing Obama, CROWS about how good he is killing people with USA drones. President Obama approves every drone attack per POTUS.
The UN MUST indict this crimminal, PLEASE. And I am NOT joking. Drones plus NSA yields terrible outcome for human beings. "We The People" will be lost forever!
Like the UN is gonna do shit but sell us down the river with Agenda 21 depopulation. Speaking of rivers like the East River, Manhattan, anyone remember who gave that land free to the UN after WWII? As Deep Throat put it to Woodward - Follow the money. Hint - the name begins with R
ock
Guess we know who the next UN targets are for the NSA.
Here is a similar man to Obama.
Idi Amin Dada was the third President of Uganda, from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment.
Bow down to the Queeny Mr. American Totus Potus and she'll see you fry.
And he died of old age in exile on a nice number in Saudi Arabia 16 August 2003.
Notice how the same old names of nations keep cropping up all the time? If you kill a few million of your population you are entitled to live like a king in Saudi Arabia, Japan, USA get the picture?
Need MOAR nobel peace prizes for Obama.
Between the United States and Japan, I think they're pretty much hated by the whole fucking GALAXY!
Keep up the good work assholes, 2014 is sure to be a banner year for terrorism and the NSA.
The new "axis of evil"?
Sad but true Oldwood. Also entirely avoidable.
Are we only left to embrace the "horror"?
And yet Japan is curiously immune from "terrorist" attacks...
Ricin?
I suppose there's always Karma...
You're forgetting the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo in 1995.
Not forgetting... that was nearly 19 years ago already. In the modern era of people finding terrorism everywhere, nada. Curious, no?
I knew there was a reason we were going to colonize Mars. We need some place to go where they don't hate us yet.
What freedoms are there left to be hated for?
Well there is the freedom to....oh nope, nope, nevermind.... it's just been outlawed.
Let's see. The right to eat: GMO foods, high fructose corn syrup soft drinks, SSRI zombie mind fuckers, drink fluoride, breath aluminum, barium, and strontium nanoparticles, eat Pacific fish that glow in the dark, mandatory injections of vaccine adjuvants containing mercury, squalene, and God knows what else without redress for the damage. The right to have your gonads grabbed, not only at airports but by VIPR teams everywhere. The right for "cavity searches" without a warrant. The right to have your kids shot at school by Mossad thugs so Obama can grab your guns. The right to be arrested for collecting rainwater on your own land. The right to apply to some social worker so you can home school your kid. The right to have to get a SMART meter which emits deadly burst of microwaves every few seconds and talks to that microcamera in your new 70" LED TV and the NSA. Hey - we still have lots of rights left. Why are so many bitchen?
15 civilians * 200 = 3000 the number of deaths in the twin towers.
I imagine at some point somebody is going to start adding all these mistakes up and the scorecard will read
1.) > 3000 innocent civilians killed by US drone strikes.
2.) 3000 innocent US civilians were killed by terrorists.
When that day occurs if it has not already, with realisation humanity can hang its head in shame, the sum worth of life of all those murdered in the twin towers (and they were) now rendered meaningless.
Throw in the deaths resulting for that little slice of needless Hell that is Iraq and the meaningless has been reached.
Hang our head in shame?
Like the five dancing Israeli Mossad agents that were arrested for videotaping the twin tower attacks and celebrating?
Or a different kind of shame?
You know, when one has "dance in one's pants" you can't just can't hold it! It must have been unbearable, hard to find relief...
Wake up, GreatUncle, before you kick off. Those 3000 Americans in the Twin Towers died from "friendly fire." It's just so freaking obvious. But those 3000 did not die in vain. They made the war on terraism possible, and the devastation of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and (hopefully/sarc) Iran. A hundred story monument should be dedicated to them. Oh, wait ........
"friendly explosion(s)" fixed! US is pretty good at painting happy faces on bombs :-)
...and the Bankers/Military Industrial Complex laughed all the way to the bank....or back to Israel
dote forget the 800 hundred thousand iraq folks.
or the millions dosed with depleted uranium missle bomb cancer.
donte forget the afghan folks and the folks of syria for these rothschilds exercises in control commerce.
greatuncle your brain got soft on the fucking numbers.
And don't forget the run-up activities:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4 (hint: Madeleine Albright proclaiming that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it all)
Only problem there is, the twin towers shot was fired from within.
loser. loser. dummy. 3,000?? 3,000? look at the loses and maimed and handicapped in the third world by us. fuck you. fuck you. wake up. stop whining. look at what the 'united states' is really doing in terms of death and murder and deathstrucken in the real world. twin towers was nothing. it was nothing, even if you aren't smart engough to realize it was fake. but, we have the right don't we? we have the right to ruin entire countries and destroy generations?
nice job. hope you're happy with yourself. keep watching t.v. united states rocks!!
Admittedly its all pretty fucked. I guess we should ignore the 8000 or so that radical terrorists inside of Iraq have killed this year. Its OK to hate ourselves for our faliures and disasters but it still might be worthwhile to acknowledge that the whole fucking world is fucked and it isn't just us. After all, thats how our politicians do it, by excusing how badly they are fucking us over because the last guy did it too.
And the US response will be too seen John Kerry and his big cuddly eye browns to smile away the recent dead and it works every fucking time there's no goddamn concern for the dead that's just to make the peons think there is.
Bumper sticker for the slimy, swinish Obama supporters: "OBAMA BOMBED A WEDDING SO I COULD HAVE FREE HEALTH CARE".
They don't call the US the welfare/warfare nation for nothing!
The 10 year UST just hit 3.00% what more justification does the UN need?
We killed them for their freedom...duh!
This tragic incident wll in no way deter the monsters from repeating similar scenarios - it is enough to drive a sensible person, crazy...
- I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Kill muslims, create terrorists, tighten security at home, fund terrorists, kill muslims, create more terrorists, remove liberty for the sake of security, fund police force, kill muslims, create more terrorists, become a fascist state, fund Surveilance, control media, elect(hahahahahahahahahaha)same, rinse ,repeat, etc
The only thing that makes sense is to kill everyone. Its the only way to be sure...and to be fair.
Only a matter of time till it happens here.......then maybe people will take notice? Na, probably not........
I thought liberals were by definition 'humanitarians' so where is the liberal outrage on this? Oh yeah, there was that Phil guy down in Lousyana that committed much worse crimes against humanity by exercising his 1st amendment rights which was used to conveniently distract people........
Dear UN,
We missed. Oops.
Love, Barry the fuck
What's a good wedding without a few fireworks... Maybe if the minister survived he gave them a two for one on funeral/wedding services.
Maztov, bitchez.
Glen Greenwald takes a shot at MSNBC
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2013/12/greenwald-calls-msnbc-out-...
Greenwald calls MSNBC out on crony journalism: I Defend Snowden Like You Defend Obama ’24 Hours a Day’ (Video)...
see website for full video from Greenwald.
Why the fuck are we in Yemen? We need Snowden to release that list of CIA employees so that the families of victims of drone strikes can start planning their payback. "Terrorists" would have no need to go after innocent Americans if they knew exactly which ones were starting the terrorism in their country.
We are fucked. America has invested decades into this clusterfuck. I do not believe for a moment that if we laid down our arms and retreated to our borders that anyone in the world would love us more or even consider forgiving us. Further the religion of war and agression is not confined to any nationality, religion or border. There are those who would see any retreat as weakness. They do not share in the pacifistic sentimentalities and will use any opportunity to do their worst. So what do we do? Surrender and take our licks, regardless of who suffers or what the ultimate consequences are? Most of us want to do the right thing, but has that time passed? As horrible as this incident is, in the workings of the world it is nothing. We see death on wholesale scale around the world, as it has always been. Do we just off ourselves now and call it done? Will that fix anything more than Jim Jones did with his KoolAid? I don't have any answers.
Saud Kingpins vs Houthi groups, some sort of a revenge.
"Marriage is inherently a tricky proposition."
- Jay Carney
The military are a bunch of control freaks; it's time their lawlessness was dealt with in an international court of law so those responsible can't go to many countries in Western Europe.
NSA intercepted a wedding invitation that said,
"in lieu of gifts, bitcoins will be accepted."
Fucking typical UN bullshit. They want us to explain our war crimes? Why did Germany and Japan get a free pass on genocide while America is always asked to explain itself? I call racism. They hate America because America is too free.
Bunch of pedo cunty fucks.
If killing innocent people at a weeding is macabre, then what about:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jun/10/israel
Corrie was one of a group of around eight international activists acting as human shields against the demolitions. According to witness statements made at the time and evidence given in court, she clambered on top of a mound of earth in the path of an advancing Caterpillar bulldozer.
"She was standing on top of a pile of earth," fellow activist and eyewitness Richard Purssell, from Brighton, said at the time. "The driver cannot have failed to see her. As the blade pushed the pile, the earth rose up. Rachel slid down the pile. It looks as if her foot got caught. The driver didn't slow down; he just ran over her. Then he reversed the bulldozer back over her again."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTNUGfWz1d8
scan through to 1:41. That footage was shot a day earlier and she was wearing the same fluorescent orange vest and shouting into the same bullhorn and was crushed to death by an armored IDF bulldozer; the driver of which claimed in court that he never saw her.
NINE years later, an ISR court determined that it was an accident. Memory hole's infinite depth.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/28/rachel-corrie-verdict-accident-judge
The United States' Quisling government even went so far as to arrest American protesters outside of various ISR embassies.
http://www.regnum.ru/english/679301.html
On April 18, 1996 to be exact, 155 mm Israeli shells donated by Uncle Sam rained down on Lebanese men, women, and children taking refuge in a UN peace-keeping compound in Qana, southern Lebanon, to escape Israeli air, sea, and land bombardment of their towns and villages, and as a result, the bodies of 102 Arab civilians were shattered to pieces.
Leading up to the Qana massacre, 17 villages had been flattened, over a half million people had been rendered homeless, more than 200 had been murdered, and hundreds were wounded, in what was named as operation "Grapes of Wrath". Israeli Prime Minister Peres, who was granted the Nobel Prize for Peace, ordered the bombing blitz. The entire world, with the exception of the White House, condemned this barbaric attack conducted intentionally against defenseless civilians.
Kofi Annan, in a statement issued on the eve of an international conference in Rome on the Lebanon crisis, described the strike on the border town of Khiam as a "coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long established and clearly marked UN post." (If the UN observers were wearing fluorecent orange vests and shouting into bullhorns it would have made no difference).
He said, "I call on the Government of Israel to conduct a full investigation into this very disturbing incident and demand that any further attack on UN positions and personnel must stop."
A rescue team was also shelled as it tried to clear the rubble.
'Full investigation"? By ISR? Satan demands blood, and his followers provide.
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/palestine12.html
ad fucking nauseum
"Never forget" is your fucking motto? Coincidentally, that's my motto too.
These people are at war with one another. Neither side has been willing to capitulate and likely never will. They both intend to win. Will we honor the one who surrenders or the one that wins? The most cruel part of this is the stalemate that has been perpetuated by international politics which prevents either side from winning prolonging the conflict seemingliy forever. Would the world have been better off if internationalists had stepped in in WWII and stopped or prevented the bombing of Dresden or the bloody attacks in the pacific, not to mention Hiroshima? Someone must surrender or capitulate for this to end. The whole fucking thing is nuts and all the do-gooders in the world will never fix one fucking thing, only make it worse. Look at all the good we have done in the middle east. The rules say we cannot win. Everything must end in a draw. Korea has worked out exceedingly well too. Lets just get the whole fucking world at war with each other and never allow anyone to win. War forever, exactly what MIC was hoping for. Protracted conflict are bullish for the markets I guess.
Those children on the beach in Gaza should have known that their beach was the only thing separating Israel from its gas and oil fields on the Gaza coast.
Israel is run by blood thirsty fuckking ANIMALS
Every time Obama murders a muslim with a drone al Quaeda gains scores of recruits. I wonder if Lockheed Martin has calculated how much collateral damage is necessary to maintain the current al Quaeda recruitment and activity levels and by extenstion the demand for drone fired Hellfire missles.
The perpetual profit center.
Well Duh!, If we dont keep killing people we can't create more terrorists to justify our ever expanding budget to fight terrorists. Since we are having a few problems finding terrorists on US soil, and its not like we are'nt trying, we have stored every email, phonecall and sms in our attempts, we need to kill potential terrorists overseas, look at it this way, wedding partries are fair game as the survivors and realatives now have the potential to be terrorists against the US in the future, so its more of a pre-emptive terrorist attack.
But oh, Benghazi, those four precious, precious Americans!
the murder of those 15 people was no accident....it was deliberate malice aforethought....obama should be tried as a war criminal.
Obama's version of the knockout game, on steroids.
Obozo the War-Klown war crime on Christmas Day. There was a report of a December 25th US drone strike in Waziristan (Pakistan) that killed three "insurgents". Of course the victims could not be identified.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Dec/25/us-drone-strike-in-pakistan-k...
ZH has been over run by idiots, liberals and conspiracy nuts that know nothing about Islam.
And your $hit doesn't smell. The Evils that you brought down on yourself, You deserve. Your government admits it has No friends, just Opportunities. ExploiA
Depleated Uranium, Agent Orange. Currency Wars. Over thown Governments
Used and Abused. World Wide.
Teach us about Islam.
I did not make any statement regarding the use of a drone on civilians so try to stay on point. My observation was regarding the lack of knowledge of Islam by idiots, liberals and conspiracy nuts. (I left out conservatives and should have included them so everyone could be offended by my observation)
What category are you?
You can teach yourself by reading about Islam, as I have done for 15 years, Go to the library and start checking out books and actually reading them. Most of the books are post 9/11 for obvious reasons. Benjamin Netanyahu wrote 'Fighting Terrorism' which was updated just after 9/11. It offers a good insight into his philosophy of how to deal with terrorists. I would suggest reading about the Prophet and the ideoligy first though, so you can then better understand the motives of the terrorists. Good reading.......
"Benjamin Netanyahu wrote 'Fighting Terrorism' which was updated just after 9/11. It offers a good insight into his philosophy of how to deal with terrorists. I would suggest reading about the Prophet and the ideoligy first though, so you can then better understand the motives of the terrorists. Good reading......."
And you have the audacity ask "which are you?"????????
Netanyahu on terrorism? Nope, no bias there. May I suggest that Mein Kampf is the definitve book jews?
Read the Quran. Don't let Fox news and the kosher media tell you about the 50 virgins the towel heads get when they kill infidels. Hint: you wont find that anywhere. ANYTIME the kosher MSM quotes a surah be sure to read the ENTIRE passage to get the full context instead of the bullshit lies.
For the best idea of who believes what, read the Talmud. It says that Jesus is boiling in semen and call his mother a whore and call goyem beasts who can be lied to and stolen from and killed. The Quran says "blessed be His name" EVERYTIME it mentions Jesus Christ. So tell me again about Judeo-Christians values. THAT is the biggest bunch of Jew propaganda you clueless fucks have ever fallen for. Islam is FAR closer to Christianity than contemporary or historic Judaism.
Go peddle your Jew propaganda (or your idiocy?) elsewhere.
Oh, fuck javi, just because people condemn the US slaughter of Muslim civilians financed by tax dollars plundered from US citizens doesn't mean they admire sharia law. A lot of people believe in the concept of blow-back. Unfortunately Bush/Obama/Clinton and the Neo-Progressive-Neo-Conservative military-industrial cabal believe in the concept of vengeance and proactive "prevention" through reckless and expensive and counterproductive aggressive military action.
The idiots and liberals and conspiracy nuts know something about Islam -- what they don't like are the CIA assassins, the TSA gropers, the NSA spies and the fucking police-state jackbooters all using "Muslim terrorism" as their excuse.
The President of the United States bombed a wedding and then went on vacation. What is it that you know javi, care to share?
'What goes around comes around'; This shit will end bad !! For the ones that see that coming, and in case you become an expat, make sure to have another passport, and when asked about where you are from, never say you are from the States, it's a hell of a burden to drag the stripes at the moment, whatever they are doing up the top, other innocent compatriots may will end up paying for it, folks will tag you no matter what you think...Peace for all…
Why is it that drone attacks on purported "wedding processions" are so common? Do Islamic weddings (a) resemble a congregation of guerillas, at least when seen from above, or (b) do Al Qaeda figures have a tendency to be present at weddings? My guess is that the correct answer is b. The CIA does not want to waste an expensive Hellfire missile on a single guerrilla. They want to get at least 4 or 5 at once to justify the cost. Members of the tribe or families involved in the wedding are guerillas who are being tracked 24/7 by the CIA, and weddings may be one of the few events where multiple guerrillas come together to celebrate the wedding of a member of their families. So the weddings are deliberately targeted to get multiple fighters at the same time. The fact that non-combatants might be present is immaterial. And in a tribal war there aren't any civilians anyway, so the firing officer can assume that most of the people present are legitimate targets.
or (b) do Al Qaeda figures have a tendency to be present at weddings? My guess is that the correct answer is b.
No offense. but unless you have some special knowledge that Al Qaeda is disproportionately present at weddings as opposed to the "bus stop", "the market" or the "bowling alley", etc, then your guess is pretty fucking stupid...and everything you wrote subsequent to that guess falls apart (and is equally stupid).
The stupidity likely stems from cognitive dissonance and grasping at straws to justify the USA's bombing of weddings.
If you're saying that they have some intelligence that these particular weddings were attended by a disproportionate number of "terrorists", then you'd have a better argument; feable but better. Alas that is not what you wrote. You singles out wedding in particular, and unless you have some special knowledge then your argumnet is nonsense. I do appreciate that you prefaced the nonsense with the phrase "my guess".
Oh, wait, you said weddings, while the article stated that they were on their way to a wedding. Big difference unless you have some special knowledge that anyone on their way to a wedding is more likely a "terrorist" than people engaged in any fucking othger activity.
Shame on you and your willful ignorance.