US Drone Kills Sixth Grade Boy in Yemen, says Human Rights Group

[polly7]

Mohammed Saleh Qayed Taeiman, described as 'a normal kid,' killed four years after father and brother were both killed in 2011 drone strike

byLauren McCauley, staff writer

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A photo purportedly showing US drone strike victim Mohammed Saleh Qayed Taeiman, who is estimated to be 12 years old. (Photo via National Organization for Drone Victims)

A sixth grade Yemeni boy was among the three victims killed by a U.S. drone strike on Monday, a human rights group has said.

The alleged CIA strike, which marked the first reported U.S. drone strike in Yemen this year, came just two days after U.S. military officials announced that the drone campaign would not by deterred by ongoing unrest in the region.

According to reports, the three victims were killed while traveling in a vehicle in central-southern Yemen near the Hareeb, Shabwa-Mareb border.

Though the deceased were reportedly members of the local militant group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), local human rights organization Yemeni National Organisation for Drone Victims (NODV) confirmed to Reuters that one of the victims, Mohammed Saleh Qayed Taeiman, was a child. "He was in sixth grade, so his age was between about 11-13 years old," said NODV head Mohammed al-Qawli. He described him as "a normal kid."

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/27/us-drone-kills-sixth-grade-boy-yemen-says-human-rights-group

[denverbill]

2. I'm pretty sure the President would support a drone strike which killed on of his own kids,

as long as it killed a suspected terrorist as well. I mean, who wouldn't?

</sarcasm>

[Man from Pickens]

4. a high threat suspected terrorist...

... sixth grader. Because, as you know, now the world's greatest military is now scared of sixth-graders and needs to kill them before they learn math or something, for national securitization purposes you see.

It's all to help Jack Bauer get to the bomb before it blows up L.A.!

[JonLP24]

17. More likely these drones are targeted at Houthis

Why would the very corrupt Yemen government care if Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is killing Houthis? It helps them out so they're likely providing data on Houthi locations.

[Terra Alta]

3. May he rest in peace.

The killings need to stop.

[ManiacJoe]

5. Sharing a car with the wrong people is dangerous

even in the USA, obviously not to the same level....

[Terra Alta]

7. being the wrong skin color is dangerous

In the US, and worldwide.

[ManiacJoe]

9. True for various defintions of "wrong color".

[R B Garr]

6. Obviously it's the goal of U.S. foreign policy to kill sixth graders.

There can be no other conclusion.

[polly7]

15. Ooooh ..... good one.

Such empathy and compassion.

[R B Garr]

23. OOOOooooh, yourself.

Kind of lame to make yourself the arbiter of who is compassionate and who isn't.

[polly7]

26. You know what? I couldn't care less about your claims of anything at all. nt.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Another glorious victory in the WOT...or, just another murdered kid.

[polly7]

13. Another murdered kid.

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Funny how war on innocents can be waged without even having to declare a war. How many countries are kids like these being killed in now? I've lost count.

eta - I'm really sorry, this wasn't meant to be anything towards you personally at all. Just a rhetorical question to which I know there's no real answer.

[nationalize the fed]

10. Remind Americans Often about what their policies do to others

Since almost no one else will.

[R B Garr]

11. The real question, though, is which Americans?

Not many on this board. Probably would get further fishing on another board... like right-wingers, for instance.

[polly7]

14. Don't like it, don't read it. nt.

[R B Garr]

21. Not liking drones is like not liking cancer.

Who likes either one....Pretty lame to think that Americans on this message board are into killing kids.

[polly7]

22. Who said that anyone on this board is into killing kids? nt.

[R B Garr]

24. Exactly. Maybe you posted on the wrong board. n/t

[polly7]

25. Well ........... WHO said it? nt.

[WillyT]

12. Huge K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[polly7]

18. Ok, that made me cry.

You are a good person, and thank you for saying his name.

[DesMoinesDem]

19. "Turns out I'm really good at killing people." - Barack Obama

[Jefferson23]

27. Recommend. n/t

[JEB]

28. Not only is this morally wrong,

it is counter productive, playing into the narrative that radicalizes. So why are we doing this? Money? Stupid people calling the shots (literally and figuratively)? Sad, stupid, wasteful.