«On January 26, The New York Times claimed that ‹a CIA drone strike in Yemen … killed three suspected Qaeda fighters on Monday.› How did they know the identity of the dead? As usual, it was in part because ‹American officials said.› There was not a whiff of skepticism about this claim despite the fact that ‹a senior American official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, declined to confirm the names of the victims› […]»
«In fact, as the Guardian reported today, ‹Mr. Jahmi’s age› was 13 on the day the American drone ended his life. Just months earlier, the Yemeni teenager told that paper that ‹he lived in constant fear of the «death machines» in the sky that had already killed his father and brother.› It was 2011 when ‹an unmanned combat drone killed his father and teenage brother as they were out herding the family's camels.› In the strike two weeks ago, Mohammed was killed along with his brother-in-law and a third man.»
«[…] In 2009, the U.S. got caught using cluster bombs in Yemen in an attack that slaughtered 35 women and children. Obama then successfully demanded that the Yemeni journalist who proved that the attack was from the U.S., Abdulelah Haider Shaye, be imprisoned for years.»