Photo from The Danger RoomFrom Times Online:
The deafening explosion rent the calm of the winter night. A house disappeared in a cloud of flame and dust, its thick earthen walls splaying into the street.
“We ran from our house to help but it was after curfew, and soldiers in a nearby post began to fire on us,” Amir Shah Jehn, 25, said. “So it wasn’t until morning that the bodies were pulled from the rubble and laid at the roadside. There were five dead: a three-month-old baby, the woman of the house, two young men and an Arab.”
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My Comment: A more comprehensive analysis on the impact of US drone strikes comes from Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann at the New America Foundation. The link to their study is here.
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