October 26, 2015
By Margaret Sullivan
...New details about the Pentagon’s drone war (click here) from 2011 to early 2013 were disclosed on Thursday in classified documents published by The Intercept, a national security news website. The documents included a set of briefing slides assessing Operation Haymaker, an effort to hunt down Taliban and Qaeda militants in Afghanistan from January 2012 to February 2013.
By Margaret Sullivan
...New details about the Pentagon’s drone war (click here) from 2011 to early 2013 were disclosed on Thursday in classified documents published by The Intercept, a national security news website. The documents included a set of briefing slides assessing Operation Haymaker, an effort to hunt down Taliban and Qaeda militants in Afghanistan from January 2012 to February 2013.
During that period,
there were 56 airstrikes that killed 35 suspects. Those strikes also
killed 219 people who do not appear to have been specifically targeted
but were labeled “enemy killed in action,” the documents showed....
Among the USA public it is numbers that catch their attention. It is interesting because they don't demand proof of the killing, they simply are appalled that it exists at all.
FOX talked about this and Clinton emails all in the same breath. The purpose for the discussion was obvious.
Among the USA public it is numbers that catch their attention. It is interesting because they don't demand proof of the killing, they simply are appalled that it exists at all.
FOX talked about this and Clinton emails all in the same breath. The purpose for the discussion was obvious.
