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May 15, 2012

More Drone Strikes Against AQAP in Yemen

This is getting interesting.

Long War Journal:

The
US launched two drone strikes today in a city in southern Yemen that is
currently under the control of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Seven
AQAP fighters and eight civilians are reported to have been killed in
the airstrikes.

The first strike targeted "a militant hideout" in Jaar, a city in
Abyan province that is currently under al Qaeda control, CNN reported.
The eight civilians were killed after they attempted to recover the
bodies of AQAP fighters, apparently after the unmanned US Predators or
Reapers launched a second salvo of missiles into the hideout.

This follows airstrikes and Yemeni military activity against AQAP over the weekend.

Read "civilians" as "people who just happen to hang with al-Qaeda on a Tuesday afternoon."

Come to think of it even the al-Qaeda are "civilians", they are unlawful belligerents.