While state officials have yet to confirm that drones were actually in operation this past Sunday and Monday, when President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi authorized a massive air and ground attack against al-Qaeda position across several provinces, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported on Thursday that witnesses’ accounts and preliminary reports have already established that civilians were killed in the fighting.
Again, if Yemeni officials have preferred not to elaborate on Sunday-Monday airstrikes, keen to play down any US involvement especially as not to feed the flame of controversy, several news organizations have nevertheless quoted so-called knowing sources, confirming American involvement. Both NN and New York Times clearly laid out Washington’s inside knowledge and operational oversight in Yemen’s grand scale military strike against al-Qaeda.
Regardless of Washington’s involvement, role or assistance, civilian lives were lost, too many by certain accounts.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimated that a see strike on Sunday targeting a truck which was allegedly transporting terror militants killed at least three civilians. The report read, “Multiple sources including military officials and eyewitnesses described how a US drone attacked a truck that was carrying alleged members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and also hit a vehicle carrying civilians. At least 10 – and possibly as many as 21 – were reportedly killed in the attack, including at least three civilians. They were described as construction workers or labourers.”
At this point in time there is no telling how many civilians were actually caught in the cross fire or how many innocent lives were shattered as a result of the military operation.
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