April 17 2013. Five people killed in a strike on a vehicle in Wessab, Western Damar province, the first strike in Yemen in three months. Apparent target was local commander Hamid al Radmi, accused of organising for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular. Journalist Farea al Muslimi noted that Al-Radmi was a former high-level government official who could have easily been arrested and brought to trial by the Yemeni government. #drone #drones #yemen (at Wessab, Yemen)
April 17 2013. 4-6 people killed when a house was destroyed by a pre-dawn strike near Wana, in either Babar Ghar or Sararogha. Rescuers dug dead and injured out of the wreckage, but rescue work was delayed by the fear of further strikes, and more bodies may be trapped in the rubble. #drone #drones #pakistan (at Sararogha, South Waziristan)
April 14 2013. 4-6 killed. Tribesmen reported as many of six drones circling the area during the afternoon “spreading panic among the residents”. One drone fired two missiles around sunset, hitting a house. The bodies were too burned to be identified. #drone #drones #pakistan
March 21 2013: a drone strike near the Afghan border kills at least three people. Possible houses or vehicles hit on the road to Datta Khel, with conflicting reports of the target. #pakistan #drone #drones (at Datta Khel, Pakistan)
March 10 2013. 2-3 killed by a strike in North Waziristan on the Afghan/Pakistan border, riding horses or motorbikes. Identities unknown. Rescue work was reportedly delayed as drones hovered over the area after the strike. #pakistan #drone #drones (at Datta Khel, Pakistan)
February 8: up to 9 killed and 6 injured in a strike on two separate mud-built houses on the North-South Waziristan border. Local sources reported that “Six drones were hovering in the sky at the time of the attack” and “Fear prevailed in the area as more drones were flying in the air halting the rescuers to launch an operation to take out bodies from the debris of the destroyed house.”
#drone #drones #pakistan (at Babar Ghar, South Waziristan)
Also January 23, a strike on two motorcycles missed or partially missed its target, hitting the house of Abdu Mohammed al-Jarrah, killing several people including al-Jarrah’s two children. #yemen #drone #drones (at Qayfa, al Bayda Province)
January 23: a strike at 8pm, 20 miles southeast of the capital, killing 6-7 people in a vehicle explosion. Two Saudis were among the dead, and there are suggestions that Saudi jets, embroiled in their own secret war, may be responsible for some of the reported drone strikes. #yemen #drone #drones (at Jahana Village, Sahan)
January 19th: a house destroyed in the Beida valley, killing 8. Three more were killed in Maarib, in a separate strike. Earlier this month, tribespeople blocked roads through the region in protest at the death of innocent civilians which fed anger against the United States. #drone #drones #yemen (at Al Bayda, Yemen)
January 8th: two strikes on the villages of Khasso Khel and Haidar Khel in North Waziristan. Both strikes destroyed buildings and killed 6-8 people. Retired General Stanley McChrystal told Reuters: “What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes … is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who’ve never seen one or seen the effects of one.” #pakistan #drone #drones (at Haidar Khel, Pakistan)
