Sentences with phrase «killed by drones»

Compare the number of «innocent» people killed by drones with the number killed by bombs in your favorite war.

Not exact matches

Micah Zenko, an expert in drone warfare at the Council on Foreign Relations, told The New York Times that of the eight U.S. citizens killed by American drone attacks, seven were killed unintentionally — including Warren Weinstein, one of the two hostages who died in the January strikes.

Last week, classified intelligence reports obtained by McClatchy belied the administration's repeated assertions that drones rarely kill civilians, that they are only aimed at terrorists who pose an imminent threat to the U.S., and that they identify intended targets accurately.

Further, it is not true that being killed by a fully autonomous military drone necessarily violates the dignity of the human person.

One would think we should have been overwhelmed by terrorists without drones to chase and kill them back then.

«Looking away has become a national pastime — from the poor, the sick, and the civilians killed by war and drones.

Oh yeah that's right, when the drones get shot down, there are no grieving parents of the young pilots killed or taken captive by hostile regimes.

Westerners can denounce Muslim practices like the death penalty for apostasy (a very rare occurrence, by the way), but are we also willing to condemn violence perceived to be committed by «our» side — things like invasions, occupations and drone attacks that kill a disproportionate amount of civilians?

He is killing all sorts of people by drone, but we will focus here as even traitors deserve due process, don't they?

Terrorists are killed overseas on a daily / weekly basis by drone strikes, but virtually none have committed any high - profile attacks on the US or other Western countries.

this dovetails with the widespread view that the attack on the U.S. Mission must have been planned and launched by an al Qaeda affiliate in revenge for the killing of the Libyan - born al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al - Libi by a U.S. drone in June.

The two major objections brought forward against the procurement of armed drones are that it (1) might make warfare «too easy» and thereby increase the likelihood of wars and (2) that these UAVs could be used for targeted killing campaigns as carried out by the CIA in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced in late January the launch of an investigation into the «civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.

Eleventh was the blowing up of a building in Prophet TB Joshua's SCOAN Church in Lagos by remote control detonation from a drone as a consequnce of which over 200 people, including many foreigners, were killed in 2013.

Hours after David Cameron revealed the killing of a British jihadist by an RAF drone in Syria, the...

Hours after David Cameron revealed the killing of a British jihadist by an RAF drone in Syria, the defence secretary has insisted that Britain «would not hesitate to do it again».

A lethal drone used by Israelis to kill over 800 Palestinians in raids against the Gaza Strip is being used as the basis for a similar machine being developed for the UK military.

The attacks came just hours after British ISIS butcher Jihadi John was said to have been killed by a US drone strike in Syria, The Nigeria Politics Online reported yesterday.

The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds — with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks.

In fact, Nancy Cooke, a professor of cognitive science and engineering at Arizona State University's College of Technology and Innovation in Mesa, Ariz., argues drone pilots may be more emotionally impacted by killing at a distance because of how closely they have to monitor the situation before, during and after the attack.

In addition to the recent one - year anniversary of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's assassination by U.S. military forces in Pakistan, a CIA drone strike earlier this week in Yemen killed AQAP head of operations, Fahd Mohammad Ahmed al Quso, an alleged planner of the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole.

An unpiloted «drone» plane armed with anti-tank missiles and remotely operated by the CIA is reported to have killed six people in Yemen.

Ross assists T'Challa in saving Wakanda from Killmonger by remotely piloting a heavily armed unmanned airship, echoing the drones used to kill «enemy combatants» in America's wars in the Middle East and Africa.

The eOne Features film mirrors what happened just this week in Somalia, when the U.S. military killed 150 Islamist Al - Shabaab militants in strikes carried out in part by drones.

Before the service begins, a terrorist group, led by Aamir Barkawi (Alon Aboutboul), unleashes its attack, seeking revenge for a drone strike two years prior that killed Aamir's daughter.

Up until Andrew Niccol's look at combat by drone warfare, Good Kill, that statement might have been true.

Especially if this is a political issue to you, or if you weren't blown away by last year's drone flick Good Kill, Eye in the Sky is something to seek out.

Good Kill by Hope Madden In 2013, Jeremy Scahill opened our eyes to the darker side of drone wars with... read more →

Drone - pilot indie drama Good Kill, directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Ethan Hawke, suffered from an uncertain positioning between arthouse and mainstream.

Turns out it's all part of a two - years - in - the - making attack headed by a lethal Pakistani arms dealer named Aamir Barkawi, bent on revenge after his family is killed during a drone strike in the film's prologue.

In Pakistan alone, 891 civilians have been killed by U.S. drones since 2004.

According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there have been approximately 399 - 500 drone strikes to - date, and approximately 3,000 individuals have been killed by these strikes, many of them innocent civilians, including women and children.

March 7, 2013 Murder — by - Drone of Americans Subverts Constitutional and Human Rights FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: [phone]; [email protected] Helena, MT — Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wrapped up a nearly 13 - hour long filibuster very early this morning, in which he demanded answers from the Obama administration regarding its position on extrajudicial use of drones to kill American citizens -LSB-...]

* This may come as a shock, but Glenn Greenwald is troubled by the Obama administration's legal justification for killing American citizens overseas via drone.

Combat Drones — Killing Drones: A Plea against Flying Robots by Marcel Dickow and Hilmar Linnenkamp for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Feb. 2013.